7th Grade
English
Seventh grade English comprises the language arts,
with an emphasis on improving the skills of writing and reading.
The classroom often becomes a writers’ workshop with students
helping each other in drafting, revising, and editing. Writing
practices include dialogues, character descriptions, narratives,
essays, scripts, and poems. Students are asked to do a considerable
amount of independent writing. Besides being required to edit for
accurate grammar, punctuation, and usage, students have formal
lessons on organization and sentence fluency. Required readings are
in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; accompanying activities include
summarizing and analyzing. Combined with group discussions and oral
presentations, these activities foster close reading skills and
deepen the students’ understanding of the
texts. In addition to a self-chosen book for literature
circle reading, texts used in 2007-2008
include the following: To Kill a
Mockingbird, Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable
Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard, and The
Outsiders.
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