GRADE 7
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Perspectives
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
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Unit ACTIVITY.
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NONFICTION NARRATIVE MODEL
Grounded
Small-Group learning
NEWS ARTICLE
Tutors Teach Seniors
New High-Tech Tricks
Jennifer Ludden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Marcy Domingo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: NOVEL EXCERPT
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Two Kinds
from The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: NEWS BLOG
A Simple Act
Tyler Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: MEMOIR
from An Invisible Thread
Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski. . . . 00
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whole-class learning
MEMOIR
from Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
Maya Angelou:
Learning to Love My Mother
Michael Maher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: IMAGE GALLERY
Mother-Daughter Drawings
Mica and Myla Hendricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
Mother to Son
Langston Hughes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
To James
Frank Horne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
An Hour With Abuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . 00
iv Grade 7
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present a Nonfiction Narrative . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
essential question : What can one generation learn from another?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Nonfiction Narrative:
Text and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 00
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Lineage
Margaret Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Family
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Grace Paley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
OPINION PIECE
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
“Gotcha Day” Isn’t a Cause
for Celebration
Sophie Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
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The Old Grandfather
and the Little Grandson
Leo Tolstoy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
BLOG POST
Bridging the Generational Divide
Between a Football Father
and a Soccer Son
John McCormick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Water Names
Lan Samantha Chang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance-based
assessment prep
Review Evidence for
a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
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A Starry Home
unit INTRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
Small-Group learning
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Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL
Leaving Main Street
John Hidalgo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
NEWS ARTICLE
Future of Space Exploration Could
See Humans on Mars, Alien Planets
Nola Taylor Redd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Compare
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY
Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed
Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: RADIO PLAY
Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed
Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: NEWS ARTICLE
Danger! This Mission to Mars
Could Bore You to Death
Maggie Koerth-Baker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
vi Grade 7
The Last Dog
from Tomorrowland
Katherine Paterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
Ellen Ochoa
Makers Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
INTERVIEW
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future of
U.S. Space Exploration After Curiosity
Keith Wagstaff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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whole-class learning
essential question : Should we make a home in space?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Science Fiction Cradlesong
C.S. Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SCIENCE ARTICLES
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5 Good Reasons to Believe in UFOs
Patrick J. Kiger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
UFO Sightings and News
Benjamin Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ARGUMENT
Argument:
Essay and Oral Presentation. . . . . . . . 00
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POETRY
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
A Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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ESSAY
Packing for Mars
Mary Roach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SCIENCE ARTICLE
Trip to Mars Could Damage
Astronauts’ Brains
Laura Sanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
INTERVIEW
Interview With NASA Shuttle
Astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz
Stacey Severn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance-based
assessment prep
Review Evidence for an Argument . . . . 00
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UNIT
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Turning Points
unit INTRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
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Launch Text: INFORMATIONAL MODEL
At the Crossroads
Hajir Khouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA
Compare
Small-Group learning
A Christmas Carol:
Scrooge and Marley, Acts 1 & 2
Israel Horovitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
Thank You, M’am
Langston Hughes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
from An American Childhood
Annie Dillard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: SLIDE SHOW
Urban Farming Is Growing
a Green Future
Brian Clark Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
NEWS ARTICLE
Profile: Malala Yousafzai
BBC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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A Christmas Carol
Chuck Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write an Informational Text. . . . . . . . . . 00
viii Grade 7
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present an Informational Text. . . . . . . . 00
essential question : What can cause a sudden change in someone’s life?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Little Things Are Big
Jesús Colón. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
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Tomorrowland
Rebecca Woolf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
BIOGRAPHY
Informational:
Text and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 00
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ESSAY
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Robert Russa Moton Museum . . . . . . . . . . 00
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
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Noor Inayat Khan
from Women Heroes of WWII
Kathryn J. Atwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
A Retrieved Reformation
O. Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Between Practice and Perfection
Azizat Danmole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
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People and the Planet
unit INTRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
Small-Group learning
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Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL
It’s Never Too Late
John Yee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
whole-class learning
POETRY
Turtle Watchers
Linda Hogan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Nature Is What We See
Emily Dickinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
The Sparrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: SLIDE SHOW
from Silent Spring
Rachel Carson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Eagle Tracking at Follensby Pond
Nature Conservancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH
SHORT STORY
Nobel Lecture: Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
Al Gore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
He-y, Come On Ou-t!
Shinichi Hoshi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY
MEDIA: VIDEO
Nobel Acceptance Speech
Al Gore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
x Grade 7
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
essential question : What effects do people have on the environment?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
from My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
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The Last Wolf
Mary TallMountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MYTH
Argument:
Essay and Oral Presentation. . . . . . . . 00
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Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
from Keepers of the Earth
Joseph Bruchac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
EXPOSITORY NONFICTION
A Sea of Plastic: Understanding the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch. . . . . . . . 00
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EXPOSITORY NONFICTION
The Story of Victor d’Aveyron,
the Wild Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SCIENCE ESSAY
from Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
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Facing Adversity
unit INTRODUCTION
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Launch Text: INFORMATIONAL MODEL
Against the Odds
Julia Paz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
whole-class learning
Compare
MEDIA: VIDEO
The Dust Bowl and the Depression
NBC Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE
A Work in Progress
Aimee Mullins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Compare
Unit ACTIVITY.
Small-Group learning
from The Story of My Life
Helen Keller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
NEWS ARTICLE
A Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill,
Electrifying a Nation
Sarah Childress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY
The Circuit
Francisco Jimenez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write an Informational Text. . . . . . . . . . 00
xii Grade 7
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present an Informational Text. . . . . . . . 00
essential question : How do we overcome obstacles?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
from My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Juliane Koepcke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
NOVEL EXCERPT
Informational:
Text and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 00
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Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Four Skinny Trees
from The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
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from Red Scarf Girl
Ji-Li Jang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Rikki-tikki-tavi
Rudyard Kipling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
from Facing the Lion: Growing Up
Maasai on the African Savanna
Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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