Language Arts
7th Grade EL Curriculum
EL Components
- Text (novels or nonfiction texts, provided for each student)
- Workbook (provided for each student)
- Most assignments will either be reading from the text or in the workbook. Workbooks stay in the classroom unless needed for a homework assignment.
- Each Unit has a Mid-Unit Assessment, End of Unit Assessment and each Module has a Performance Task. Performance Tasks can range from essays to poems.
- There are 4 Modules in the 7th Grade Curriculum
- Each Module is broken up into 3 Units
- Each Unit has anywhere between 6 and 14 Lessons
- Module 1: Journeys & Survival (A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park)
- Module 2: Working with Evidence: Working Conditions Then & Now (Lyddie by Katherine Paterson)
- Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
- Module 4: Screen Time & The Developing Brain (nonfiction articles)
- Major Assignments: 60%
- Minor Assignments: 40%
- There will be about 6 minor assignments per quarter and about 3 major assignments per quarter. Assessments do not automatically mean a major grade.
EL Components
- Text (novels or nonfiction texts, provided for each student)
- Workbook (provided for each student)
- Most assignments will either be reading from the text or in the workbook. Workbooks stay in the classroom unless needed for a homework assignment.
- Each Unit has a Mid-Unit Assessment, End of Unit Assessment and each Module has a Performance Task. Performance Tasks can range from essays to poems.
- There are 4 Modules in the 7th Grade Curriculum
- Each Module is broken up into 3 Units
- Each Unit has anywhere between 6 and 14 Lessons
- Module 1: Journeys & Survival (A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park)
- Module 2: Working with Evidence: Working Conditions Then & Now (Lyddie by Katherine Paterson)
- Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
- Module 4: Screen Time & The Developing Brain (nonfiction articles)
- Major Assignments: 60%
- Minor Assignments: 40%
- There will be about 6 minor assignments per quarter and about 3 major assignments per quarter. Assessments do not automatically mean a major grade.
