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Language Arts

• Persuasion Unit - 7th grade - developed by Liz Henry
• Overview
• Techniques of persuasion
• Advertisements
• Editorial
• Presidential campaign and Rubric
• Proposal
• Living in the past
• Letter of complaint
• Jewelry business
• Travel brochure
• Media message

• The 60's Unit - 8th grade - developed by Ronnie Chao
• Standards
• Table of contents
• 60's collage
• Note-taking packet
• "Stop the Sun" DRTA worksheet and discussion
• "Once Upon When We Were Colored" worksheet and discussion
• 60's article presentation
• 60's journal
• Women's Movement note-taking packet
• 60's journal
• 60's group mural
• 60's reflective journal

Reading

• Reading Unit - developed by Sherri Suszek
  • Oral fluency
  • Identify reading errors
  • Match punctuation with sentence type
  • Construct different sentence types
  • Analyze literary elements
  • Venn diagram
  • Compare a character
  • Read dialogue
  • Connect to text
  • Identify unknown words
  • Represent theme through collage
  • Reader's theater
  • Reflect on reader's theater

• Focus Skills Unit - 6th grade - developed by Amanda Seely - designed to reinforce focus skills taught weekly for the Harcourt Trophies sixth grade reading anthology
  • Introduction
  • Prefixes, suffixes, and root words
  • Narrative elements
  • Prefixes, suffixes, and root words
  • Literary devices
  • Literary devices
  • Narrative elements
  • Compare and contrast
  • Prefixes, suffixes, and root words
  • Sequencing
  • Compare and contrast

• Independent Reading Program - 7th grade - developed by Jennifer Thill
  • Program description
  • Book talk
  • Author letter
  • Book review
  • Biography/autobiography analysis
  • Journals
    • Journal information sheet
  • Conferences
  • Reading log
  • Talk show
  • Crystal ball - prediction
  • Dear advice
  • Coffee shop conversation
  • Science fiction/fantasy

Speaking

• Poetry speaking and performance rubric
• Speaking rubric

Writing

• Argument Unit - 7th grade - developed by Debra Harris
  • Overview
  • Table of Contents
  • Standards
  • Baseline argument essay
  • Socratic Seminar (summative)
    • Socratic Seminar (formative)
    • Questioning the counterclaim (formative)
    • Focus on a strong conclusion (formative)
  • Focus on claim and evidence
  • Focus on strong evidence and counterclaim
  • Focus on counterclaim and rebuttal
  • Focus on conventions and citing sources
  • Final argument essay

• Narrative Unit - 7th grade - developed by Nicole Dickson
  • Overview
  • Standards
  • Organization: Introduction
  • Development: Characterization
  • Development: Details: Dialogue
  • Development: Show, don't tell
  • Organization: Conclusions
  • Organization: Transitions
  • Sentences: Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences
  • Word choice: Unique/precise words
  • Distinguish between criticism and constructive criticism (formative)
  • Provide examples of strengths and explain why (formative)
  • Provide examples of weaknesses and explain why, and provide specific suggestions for improvement (formative)
  • Provide examples of strengths, provide examples of weaknesses and explain why, provide specific suggestions for improvement (formative)
  • Peer edit (summative)

• Writing Poetry: Found poems
  • Found poem task
  • Found poem rubric
  • Sample found poem
  • Found poem lesson plan

• Writing Rubric

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