Semester One: Week of Welcome
Quarter One: Changes
Story 1: Cow’s Music
Essential Question: How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
Comprehension Skill: Compare & Contrast
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Words to Know: (Quizlet) consolation, glimmer, heinous, indispensable, perception, phobic, sarcastic, threshold
Story 2: Drumbeat to Freedom
Essential Question: Why do people form alliances?
Comprehension Skill: Sequence
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Paragraph Clues
Words to Know: (Quizlet) adversity, alliance, confinement, inflicted, reminisce, retrieved, smuggle, spindly
Story 3: The Secret World of Caves
Essential Question: How do life forms vary in different environments?
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key Details
Comprehension Strategy: ReRead
Genre: Expository
Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words (Greek & Latin)
Words to Know: (Quizlet) classification, compartment, engulfs, flanked, maneuvering, obscure, species, submerged
Story 4: The Monster in the Mountains
Essential Question: How do natural forces affect the Earth?
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key Details
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Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Metaphors & Simile
Words to Know: (Quizlet) cascaded, documentation, dynamic, exerts, plummeting, pulverize, scalding, shards
Story 5: Making Money
Essential Question: What factors influence how people use money?
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Comprehension Skill: Author’s Point of View
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Vocabulary Strategy: Root Words (Greek & Latin)
Words to Know: (Quizlet) available, basically, factors, fluctuate, formula, inventory, manufactured, salaries
Story 1-5 Review & Test
- Character, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast (Story 1)
- Character, Setting, Plot: Sequence (Story 2)
- Context Clues: Paragraph Clues (Story 2)
- Greek/Latin Prefixes/Roots (Story 3, Story 5)
- Main Idea and Key Details (Story 3, Story 4)
- Metaphors and Similes (Story 4)
The Summary: Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
- Highlight
- Name It, Verb It, Big Picture (Story 3, Story 4)
- Jot Dots (Story 3, Story 4)
- Jot Dots to Sentences
- Topic Sentence
- Summary Paragraph
Quarter Two: Excursions Across Time
Story 6: Empire of the Sea
Essential Question: What contributions were made by early civilizations?
Comprehension Skill: Problem & Solution
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Vocabulary Strategy: Latin Roots
Words to Know: (Quizlet) artifact, communal, derived, inscription, millennium, stationery, utilize, yields
Story 7: Democracy Debate
Essential Question: How did democracy develop?
Comprehension Skill: Compare & Contrast
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Genre: Expository
Vocabulary Strategy: Greek & Latin Prefixes
Words to Know: (Quizlet) aspiring, foundation, preceded, principal, promote, restrict, speculation, withstood
Story 8: Yasukal’s Mighty Trade
Essential Question: What was life like for people in ancient cultures?
Comprehension Skill: Point of View
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Connotations & Denotations
Words to Know: (Quizlet) alcove, commerce, domestic, exotic, fluent, stifling, upheaval, utmost
Thanksgiving Break November 19th -27th
Story 9: Oxymandis
Essential Question: What can the past teach us?
Comprehension Skill: Theme
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Genre: Poetry
Vocabulary Strategy: Personification
Words to Know: commemorate, contemplate, forlorn, majestic, lyric poetry, rhyme scheme, sonnet, meter
Story 10: Marian Anderson: Struggles & Triumphs
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Story 6 – 10 Review & Test
- Text Structure: Problem and Solution (Story 6)
- Greek and Latin Prefixes/Roots (Story 6, Story 7)
- Text Structure: Compare and Contrast (Story 7)
- Point of View (Story 8)
- Personification (Story 9)
EOC 1 Review & Test
- Characters, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast (Story 1)
- Characters, Setting, Plot: Sequence (Story 2)
- Context Clues: Paragraph Clues (Story 2)
- Main Idea and Key Details (Story 3, Story 4)
- Greek and Latin Prefixes/ Roots (Story 3, Story 5, Story 6, Story 7)
- Metaphors and Similes (Story 4)
- Author’s Point of View (Story 5)
- Text Features: Headings (Expository, Story 7)
- Connotation and Denotation (Story 8)
- Point of View (Story 8)
- Theme (Story 9)
- Personification (Story 9)
- Text Structure: Cause and Effect (Story 10)
Winter Break December 22nd – January 3rd
Semester Two: Halfway There
Quarter Three: Challenges
Story 11: The Day The Dam Broke
Essential Question: How do people meet environmental challenges?
Comprehension Skill: Author’s Point of View
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Genre: Expository
Vocabulary Strategy: Paragraph Clues
Words to Know: (Quizlet) alignment, calamity, eclipse, generated, inconvenience, periodic, prolonged, tenacity
Story 12: She Had to Walk Before Before She Could Run
Essential Question: How do people meet personal challenges?
Comprehension Skill: Author’s Point of View
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Genre: Biography
Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms
Words to Know: summit, assess, compensate, deteriorated, devastating, implement, peripheral, potential
Story 13: Treasure in the Attic
Essential Question: When are decisions hard to make?
Comprehension Skill: Theme
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Genre: Drama
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones
Words to Know: (Quizlet) benefactor, empathy, endeavor, entail, extensive, indecision, multitude, tentatively
Story 14: My Visit to Arizona
Essential Question: How do people uncover what they have in common?
Comprehension Skill: Theme
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs
Words to Know: (Quizlet) adjustment, chattering, ember, mentor, nomadic, rapport, reunites, sturdy
Story 15: Hey Nilda and Hi Rachel
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Story 16: Journey to Freedom
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Story 11 – 16 Review & Test
- Context Clues: Paragraph Clues (Story 11)
- Author’s Point of View (Story 11, Story 12)
- Idioms (Story 12, Story 15)
- Text Features: Stage Directions and Scenes (Story 13)
- Theme (Story 13, Story 14)
- Homographs (Story 14)
Quarter Four: Taking Action
Story 17: The Fortunes of Fragrance
Essential Question: How have people used natural resources?
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key Details
Comprehension Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Strategy: Latin Roots
Words to Know: (Quizlet) commodity, distribution, dominant, edible, impenetrable, ornate, replenished, significant
Story 18: The Great Fire of London
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Spring Break March 16th – 26th
Story 19: Researcher to the Rescue
Essential Question: How can a scientific investigation be an adventure?
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea & Key Details
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Genre: Expository Text
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Words to Know: (Quizlet) alternative, correspond, extract, foliage, hypothesis, protein, resilient, saturated
Story 20: Messages in Stone & Wood
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Book Club: Little Women Classic Starts
Story 21: How Many Seconds?
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Genre: Poetry
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Words to Know: (Quizlet) horizons, incentive, recreation, unfettered, hyperbole, repetition, imagery, ode, repetition
Story 17 – 21 Review & Test
- Main Idea & Key Details (Story 17)
- Latin & Greek Roots (Story 17, Story 20)
- Text Structure: Cause and Effect (Story 18)
- Adages (Story 18)
- Context Clues: Comparisons (Story 19)
- Text Structure: Sequence (Story 20)
- Hyperbole (Story 21)
- Theme (Story 21)
EOC 2 Review & Test
- Character, Setting, Plot: Compare and Contrast (Story 1)
- Character, Setting, Plot: Sequence (Story 2)
- Text Structure: Compare and Contrast (Story 7)
- Context Clues: Paragraph Clues (Story 11)
- Author’s Point of View (Story 11)
- Idioms (Story 12)
- Theme (Story 13, Story 14, Story 21)
- Point of View (Story 15)
- Character, Setting, Plot: Cause and Effect (Story 16)
- Main Idea and Key Details (Story 17, Story 19)
- Context Clues: Comparisons (Story 19)
End of School Year: One Last Time
Last Day of School May 24th
I’m going to miss being in your class!!!
Have fun next year!
Me too! Please stop by and say hello. I think you are going to enjoy 7th grade.