4th Marking Period Essential Questions

7th: How can one escape his/her destiny? How can the same story be told differently?

8th/Enrichment: How can trying to change someone else end up changing you? How do multiple perspectives affect the telling of a story?

4th Marking Period Objectives

7th grade:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9
Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.


8th grade:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.6
Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

4th Marking Period Texts

7th grade core novel

Reading Enrichment

8th grade core novel



4th Marking Period Important Dates & Deadlines

7th grade ELA

Compare/Contrast Literary Essay
- guidelines for this assignment will be distributed in early May
  • rough draft due 5/29 (quiz grade)
  • 2nd set of rough drafts due 6/9-6/12 (quiz grades)
  • final draft due 6/17 (test grade)


Choice Creative Performance Task (poem, song, storybook, etc.) - due Tues. 6/17

District Reading Task (will count as test grade): Mon. 6/2 and Tues. 6/3

SRI (reading level) testing window: 6/2-6/12 (exact date TBD school-wide)


Literature Circle presentation (will count as quiz grade): Thurs. 6/19

7th grade 
Reading Enrichment

Weekly vocabulary quizzes on Fridays

Weekly Teenbiz3000 articles (connections and activity count towards grade)

8th grade ELA

Literary Analysis Paper
- guidelines for this assignment will be distributed in early May
  • rough draft due 5/20 (quiz grade)
  • 2nd set of rough drafts due 5/29 (quiz grades)
  • final draft due 6/9 (test grade)

Choice Creative Performance Task (poem, song, inside/outside, etc.) - due any time before June 11th

Social Studies decades project will double-count as an ELA task - guidelines for this will come from S.S. teacher

District Reading Task (will count as test grade): Mon. 6/2 and Tues. 6/3

SRI (reading level) testing window: 6/2-6/12 (exact date TBD school-wide)


Literature Circle presentation (will count as quiz grade): Tues. 6/17

Homework

Homework 5/26-5/30:


7th grade:
8th grade:
Enrichment:

Syllabus

At the beginning of the year, a syllabus will be distributed to each class, which outlines the expectations for the course (academic and behavioral.) Click on your child's course to see the syllabus!
With the motto of "college-bound", every period is named after a course. Similar to college, the course number changes with every semester (or for us, marking period.)
Period 1: ELA700a (MP1 = ELA701a, MP2 = ELA702a, MP3 = ELA703a, MP4 = ELA703a)
Period 2: ELA700b (MP1 = ELA701b, MP2 = ELA702b, MP3 = ELA703b, MP4 = ELA703b)
Period 4: ELA3000 (MP1 = ELA3001, MP2 = ELA3002, MP3 = ELA3003, MP4 = ELA3004)
Period 5: ELA800a (MP1 = ELA801a, MP2 = ELA802a, MP3 = ELA803a, MP4 = ELA803a)
Period 6: ELA800b (MP1 = ELA801b, MP2 = ELA802b, MP3 = ELA803b, MP4 = ELA803b)

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