January 1, 2008
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Welcome to Language Arts 7!
The seventh grade Language Arts course is aligned with the California State Standards, and is designed to build confidence and skill in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Over the course of the year, students will take on roles as linguists, playwrights, authors, orators, actors, critics, poets, and singers. Students will work with poems, plays, essays, short stories, myths, and films, many of which have strong interdisciplinary connection to the social studies curriculum.
The following core texts are central to our study:
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
- Neither This nor That by Aliya Husain
- Collection of Various African Myths
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Grammar in 15 Minutes a Day published by Learning Express
- Painless Vocabulary (Barron’s) by Michael Greenberg
Please go to 'Resources' for a full copy of the Course Overview
