About ELA 7
ELA 7 is an iPad-based class that focuses on the areas of reading, writing, listening, and speaking using the EL Education Modules Curriculum as a roadmap to success.
Students will be studying and creating various fiction and non-fiction texts. An emphasis is placed on the students creating claims in their writing and class discussions, while supporting these claims with valid text-based evidence. Students will be encouraged to use evidence in the form of quotations, paraphrases, facts, and statistics, whenever possible.
The four quarters will generally follow the topics below:
MARKING PERIOD | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TOPICS | The Lost Children of Sudan (Reading, Writing, and Speaking Grounded in Evidence): A Long Walk to Water (historical fiction) and nonfiction articles | Epidemics (Researching to Build and Present Knowledge): Patient Zero and nonfiction articles | The Harlem Renaissance (Analyzing, Interpreting, and Evaluating Text): One Last Word: Wisdom of the Harlem Renaissance, Shuffle Along, and poetry | Plastic Pollution (Researching to Write and Present Arguments): Trash Vortex and nonfiction articles |