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