MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Grade
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Level
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Resources
Differentiation
Connections
Standards
Benchmark
*Special Education
Unit 1 Fiction and
Nonfiction
modifications and
Pearson Prentice Hall
enrichment- utilize
Literature Text
UEQ-What is the best way to acceleration
 Three Century
find the truth?
program:
Woman
incorporate the
 Fall of the
LEQ -How do authors make
series supplemental
RL.2
Diagnostic
House of Usher
Connections:
characters come alive?
material to scaffold
RL.3
Test
Unit
 Papa’s Parrot
 Hindenburg
LEQ - How do we recognize
in order to assist
L.4
1.
 MK
 Chinese
the major components of plot? at- risk students as
L.4A
culture and
LEQ-What are the elements
 The Luckiest
well as enrichment
L.4B
Portfolios
famous
of setting?
Time of All
students.*
L.6
places
LEQ- What is the importance

Barrio Boy
RI.2
Beginning
of theme?
Meet the Author
 Good luck
 A Day’s Wait
RI.5
of the year
LEQ- How is conflict critical Video
charms
 All Summer in
RI.6
Benchmark
to a text?
around the
a Day
W.2
Test.
LEQ- How does using context Unit 1 Introduction
world
 The Night the
W.2a
clues improve understanding?

Irish
Potato
Bed Fell
W.2b
Story
LEQ- How do you determine Pearsonsuccess.net
famine
 Stolen Day
L.1
Selection
the point of view?
Activities

Dominican
L.2
tests
LEQ- How do we recognize
Republic
Novels
SL
details that indicate the
Teacher-directed,
author’s purpose?
collaborative, and
Online component
LEQ- How does dialogue
independent reading
Pearsonsuccessnet.com
enhance a story?
of texts from
LEQ- How do we write an
Prentice Hall Text
Teacher created
effective descriptive essay?
materials
Vocabulary building
activities
1
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Grade
Level
Standards
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
Graphic organizers
Open-ended
questions/RAISE
Restate
Answer all questions
Include powerful
vocabulary
Support answer with
detail.
Extend –make
connections
Scaffolding of main
concepts taught.
Writing Scoring
Rubric
Journal Writing
Note-taking
Memoir writing
Brainpop
Grammar-Common
2
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Resources
Grade
Level
Standards
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DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
and proper nouns
Resources
Personal/possessive
nouns
RL7.1
RL7.2
RL7.3
RL7.4
RL7.6
RI7.1
RI7.4
RI7.5
RI 7.9
RI7.10
W7.1
W7.1a-e
W7.2
W7.2a
W7.2d-f
W7.3
W7.3a-e
W7.5
W7.7
W7.9
W7.9a
SL7.1
SL7.1a
SL7.3
Unit 2: Short Stories
UEQ- Does every conflict
have a winner?
LEQ- How can making
inferences help in
comprehension?
LEQ-How are characters
classified?
LEQ-How can one
differentiate between internal
and external conflict?
LEQ- How do readers use
predictions?
LEQ- How is understanding
the sequence of events in a
story?
LEQ- How is recognizing the
theme of a short story
important?
LEQ- How do we identify the
conflict and resolution in a
story?
Meet the Author
Video
Connections Migration of
Russian
Jews to the
U.S
 Melting pot
theory
Class discussion
Pearsonsuccess.net
activities
Character Analysis
(tee-shirt activity)
Portfolio
Scoring
Rubric
Vocabulary Builders
Plot diagram
Teacher directed,
collaborative, and
independent reading
of short stories.
Pearson Prentice Hall
textbook
 Dinner party
 The Treasure of
Lemon Brown
 The Bear Boy
 Rikki Tikki
Tavi
 Two Kinds
 Seventh Grade
 Melting Pot
 Ribbons
 After Twenty
Years
 The Third Wish
 Amigo Brothers
Teacher tube
Graphic organizersSymbolism
Conflict/external/int
ernal
E-Reading
worksheets.com
Online component
3
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Prentice
Hall
Selection
Tests
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Grade
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Level
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Resources
Differentiation
Connections
Standards
Benchmark
SL7.5
LEQ- How does an author use Compare/contrast
SL7.6
the literacy device of irony?
text with similar
Teacher created
L7.1
LEQ- How can you write an
themes
materials
L7.2a
effective speculative essay?
L7.2b
Short Story Analysis
L7.3
L7.4b
Scaffolding of main
L7.4c
concepts taught
L7.5a
L7.5c
Writing Rubric
L7.6
Journal Writing
Note taking
Grammar- Verbs,
Adjectives, Adverbs
A or B StoryDifferentiated
instruction
Six traits of writing
4
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MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Grade
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Level
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Resources
Differentiation
Connections
Standards
Benchmark
RL7.3
Unit 3 Introduction
Connections
Portfolios
Prentice Hall Textbook
Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction
Meet the
 Montgomer
 Freedom
RL7.10
UEQ-What knowledge is
AuthorVideo
Scoring
y bus
Walkers
RI7.1
important to you?
Rubrics
boycott
 Life Without
RI7.2
Selection A or B
1955-56
Gravity
RI7.3
LEQ- How do we determine
differentiated
 Gravity and Selection
 Conversational
RI7.4
the main idea of a passage?
instruction
tests
its effects
Ballgames
RI7.5
LEQ- How can a reader
 Native
 I am a Native
RI7.6
determine nonfiction text?
Journal writing
Benchmark
American
American
RI7.7
LEQ- What are the various
tests
cultures
 Snowflake
RI7.8
types of nonfiction?
Timelines/projectBentley
RI7.9
LEQ- What are various
black history and
 No Gumption
RI7.10
purposes of nonfiction?
women’s history
 All Together
W7.1a
LEQ-What are the possible
Now
W7.1b
formats of a nonfiction text?
Pearsonsuccess.net
 The Real Story
W7.2
LEQ- How do you write an
Activities
of a Cowboy’s
W7.2a-e
effective persuasive essay?
life
W7.3d
LEQ- What are the steps in
Graphic organizers

Rattlesnake
W7.4
writing a how-to essay?
Hunt
W7.5
LEQ- How do you recognize
Vocabulary builders
W7.8
cause-effect relationship in a
Ex.synonym/antony
Teacher created
W7.9
text?
m chart
materials
W7.9b
LEQ- How does using the
SL7.1
writing process aid in
Scaffolding of main
Online component
SL7.1b
constructing an essay?
concepts.
SL7.2
SL7.3
Expository essay
SL7.4
writing/class
L7.1
presentations.
5
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Grade
Level
Standards
L7.1a
L7.1c
L7.2b
L7.3
L7.3a
L7.4
L7.4b-d
L7.5b
L7.6
RL7.1
RL7.2
RL7.3
RL7.5
RL7.6
RL7.7
RL7.10
RI7.1
RI7.6
RI7.9
RI7.10
W7.1
W7.1a-c
W7.2
W7.2a-c
W7.4
W7.8
W7.9
W7.9a
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
Resources
Grammarconjunctions,
prepositions,
subjects and
predicates
5Ws and H of
writing.
Unit 5: Drama
Meet the Author
Connections
 English
currency
 Victorian
Age
UEQ- Do others see us more
clearly than we see ourselves?
Pearsonsuccess.net
activities
LEQ-What are the elements
of drama?
LEQ- What are the changing
forms of drama?
LEQ-How do we analyze a
drama?
LEQ- How do you write
differently in a timed setting?
Vocabulary builders
Portfolio
GrammarInfinitives,
interjections,
Appositives,
fragments and runons, double
negatives, clauses
Scoring
rubrics
Prentice Hall Textbook
 Sorry Wrong
Number
 A Christmas
Carol
 Dragonwings
 The Monsters
are Due on
Maple Street
Teacher created
materials
Online component
Elaine’s Dinner
Theater Trip
Graphic organizers
6
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Prentice
Hall
Selection
Tests.
Grade
Level
Standards
SL7.1
SL7.1a-c
SL7.5
SL7.6
L7.1
L7.2
L7.2b
L7.3
L7.4b-d
RL7.1
RL7.2
RL7.3
RL7.5
RL7.9
RL7.10
RI7.1
RI7.5
RI7.6
RI7.9
RI7.10
W7.1
W7.1a
W7.1b
W7.1b
W7.1e
W7.2
W7.2a-c
WW7.2e
W7.2f
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
Resources
Reading of plays in
groups.
Role-playing
Writing Rubrics
Unit Introduction
Unit 6:
Oral Themes and Traditions Pearsonsuccess.net
activities
UEQ-Community or
individual…which is more
Meet the Author
important?
video
LEQ- Why are myths and
folktales important to study?
LEQ-What are
idioms?
LEQ- How are common
themes about life illustrated in
oral tradition?
LEQ- How do we learn
cultural context through oral
traditions?
Connections
 Greek
Mythology
 Aztec
tradition
Portfolios
Scoring
Rubric
Delivery of oral
summary
Teacher directed,
collaborative, and
independent reading.
Reflective essay on
cultural differences
and similarities.
Graphic organizers
7
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Selection
tests
Prentice Hall Text
 The Traveler
and the Bear
 Icarus and
Daedalus
 Demeter and
Persephone
 Tenochitlan:
Inside the Aztec
Capital
 Reading for
Information
 The Voyage
 Sun and the
Moon
In a Box
 How the Snake
Got Poison
 The People
Grade
Level
Standards
W7.3
W7.3a
W7.3b
W7.4
W7.5
W7.7
W7.8
W7.9
W7.9a
SL7.1
SL7.1a-c
SL7.4
SL7.5
SL7.6
L7.1
L7.2
L7.2a
L7.2b
L7.3a
L7.4b
L7.5
L7.5a
L7.5b
L7.6
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Resources
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
GrammarCould Fly
punctuation,
 The Fox
capitalization,
Outwits the
commas
Crow
 All Stories are
Creative writingAnansi’s
create a fable.
Unit 4: Exploring Poetry
Poetry writing
UEQ- What is the secret to
reaching someone through
Poetry jam
Diagnostic
test
Selection
8
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MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Grade
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Level
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Standards
Benchmark
verse?
Poetry Collections
tests
1- Loneliness
LEQ- How can you utilize the
and nature
Portfolio
elements of poetry to
2- Animal,
appreciate,
plants, and
Poetry
comprehend, and compose
flowers
writing
poems?
3- Life, nature,
Collection
LEQ- How do we determine
and courage
the meaning of a poem?
4- Expressing
Benchmark
LEQ- What are the literary
admiration
tests
devices used in poetry?
for people
LEQ- How can paraphrasing
and nature
be used to better understand
5- Exploring
poetry?
responsibility
LEQ- How do you effectively
,
read a poem?
individuality,
and
musicality of
rain
6- Ideas of loss,
rhythmic
travel, and
watery words
7- Honoring
people
important to
the speaker
8- Celebrates
memorable
9
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Resources
Grade
Level
Standards
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, NJ 08210
CURRICULUM GUIDE
DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts GRADE LEVEL/COURSE: Grade 7
Assessment
Activities and
Cross Curricular
Unit/Essential Questions
/
Differentiation
Connections
Benchmark
characters
and
experiences
10
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Resources