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English · Grade 7
Learners sharpen their word knowledge for reading and writing at a seventh-grade level. They use Greek and Latin roots such as bell, vert, path and tract, interpret allusions to myths, literature and history, distinguish shades of meaning among related words, and revise sentences to be precise and concise.
English · Grade 7
Through an original story about a girl who secretly saves her family's garden during a drought, learners cite several pieces of evidence for one analysis, build inference chains and test whether evidence is sufficient, analyze how setting shapes characters and plot, and write an analytical paragraph that weaves evidence and commentary. A fictional lighthouse keeper's log checks transfer.
English · Grade 7
Learners read an original one-act play about a father and daughter who disagree about the future of the family hardware store, plus Shakespeare's public-domain Sonnet 18 and an original sonnet. They analyze how characters' interactions drive the plot, how a drama's form (scenes, stage directions, soliloquy, aside) shapes meaning, how a theme develops across a text, and how a sonnet's structure and turn build its message.
English · Grade 7
Learners read an original story told by two narrators, a girl who thinks her neighbor is mean and the neighbor himself, then compare it with a screenplay adaptation written for this course. They analyze how an author develops and contrasts characters' points of view, learn the techniques unique to film, audio and stage, compare a story with its adaptation, and plan an adaptation of their own.
English · Grade 7
Learners compare two fictional accounts of a city's plan to close a neighborhood library branch: a city budget office press release and a community newspaper feature. They identify central ideas in each, analyze which evidence each author emphasizes, test competing interpretations of the same visitor data with a chart, examine how authors set their positions against others, and write a comparison.
English · Grade 7
Learners delineate and evaluate a fictional parent's speech asking a town council to install speed cameras near a school. They trace its claims, judge whether each piece of evidence is relevant and sufficient, recognize unsound reasoning such as hasty generalization, false cause, either-or thinking, bandwagon appeals and personal attacks, and write an evaluation. A new letter about school start times checks transfer.
English · Grade 7
Learners study an original mentor story that opens in the middle of the action, flashes back, and circles back to its opening image with a new meaning. They experiment with narrative structures (in medias res, flashback, frame and circular), choose points of view for effect, build a motif or symbol with precise sensory language, and draft their own narrative that tries a new structure.
English · Grade 7
Learners study an original model explanation of how a canal lock lifts a boat using only water and gravity, then explain a complex process of their own. They write introductions that preview what follows, organize steps and causes clearly, make difficult ideas accessible with definitions, analogies, examples and a graphic, create cohesion with transitions and precise vocabulary, and conclude in a way that follows from the explanation.
English · Grade 7
Learners build and revise an argument about whether a fictional town should turn an empty lot into a community garden or a parking lot. They write reasoning that explains why evidence supports a claim, acknowledge and distinguish opposing claims, use sources accurately with cohesive language, and use a peer-feedback protocol to plan and carry out revisions.
English · Grade 7
Learners use sentence structure as a style tool. They tell phrases from clauses and explain what each does, choose simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences to show how ideas relate, fix misplaced and dangling modifiers, punctuate coordinate adjectives, and build cohesion across a paragraph with transitions, consistent terms and clear references.
English · Grade 7
Learners research how rain gardens help reduce flooding using five fictional sources that agree, disagree and sometimes repeat each other. They generate focused follow-up questions and use advanced search strategies, corroborate facts across independent credible sources and trace conflicting claims to their origin, organize notes in a synthesis matrix while paraphrasing honestly, and cite sources with in-text citations and a works-cited list.
English · Grade 7
Learners follow a student team proposing a rain garden for their school, from discussion to presentation to an online article. They ask questions that draw out elaboration and steer a discussion back on topic, revise their views when new evidence warrants it, present the most important points with multimedia that clarifies, and publish digitally with descriptive links, citations, alt text and properly permitted images.
