Reading Focus:
January:
Context Clues
Fact and Opinion
Expository selections
Persuasive selections
Review characterization and Setting
December: Drama
Setting
Character
Theme
November: Expository
Main Idea and Details
Text Features
October: Narrative Selections
Character
Plot
Setting
September: Figurative Language (see the list in the right hand column)
August: Characterization
Our Literature Textbook is on line.
http://my.hrw.com
Here you may find the reading selections, assigment sheets, and hear the story read aloud. Check it out! What a great resourse.
Reading Practice for support in
reading skills: 
http://www.studyisland.com/
This is a web site provided for student practice. It has drills on each
reading indicator for the seventh grade curriculum.
Terms students should know how to define and use:
direct characterization
indirect characterization
Parts of a short story:
........character
... ....setting
....... theme
........plot
........point of viw
parts of the plot:
........conflict
........rising action
........climax
........resolution
SPELLING
January 11_ Author's Purpose List
January 18 - Text Features #1
January 25 - Text Features #2
February 1 - Text Structure
February 8 - Lesson 31
February 15 - Lesson 24
February 22 - Lesson 32
March 1 - Lesson 27
March 8 - Figurative Language
March 22 - Review for State Assessments
Please go to the spelling page,
where you will find the list of words, and the accompanying worksheet
the students will be working on for each week.
Spelling practice is available for the assigned list on http://www.spellingcity.com/
Figurative Language:
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
analogy
alliteration
hyperbole
idiom
personification
7th Grade Word Processing
Word Processing Syllabus
8th GradeComputer Technology
