Unit 1: Facing Challenges
“The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas | Lexile: 760
Selections
“Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas | Lexile: 890
“The Walk” by Thomas Hardy | Lexile: N/A
“A Prayer” by Frank Dempster Sherman | Lexile: N/A
“Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes | Lexile: 850
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling | Lexile: 970
“British Rule in India” | Lexile: 925-1185
Unit 2: Courage and Confidence
“Frederick Douglass Freedom’s Voice” | Lexile: 925-1185
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Lexile: 1000
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Lexile: 925-1185
“The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by José Sanchez | Lexile: 860
from Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
Lexile: 1040
“Tending Sir Ernest’s Legacy:
An Interview with Alexandra Shackleton” by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
with Lexile Levels
Unit 3: Influencing Others
“Vanishing Natural Wonders” | Lexile 970
“Saving Water:
Why Save Something That Covers Two-thirds of the Earth?”
by Majorie Lamb | Lexile: 1040
“A World of Water” by Carly Schuna | Lexile: 1080
Barbara Jordan:
1976 Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention
Lexile: 925-1185
“All Together Now” by Barbara Jordan | Lexile: 920
“Barbara Jordan: A Message of Hope” | Lexile: 720
Unit 4: Honor and Pride
“Song of Myself” | Lexile: N/A
“O’Captain! My Captain!” | Lexile: N/A
“Adieu to a Soldier” | Lexile: N/A
“Beat! Beat! Drums” by Walt Whitman | Lexile: N/A
“Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing” by Kyle Mathers | Lexile: 900
“The Drummer Boy” | Lexile: 925-1185
“The Drumbeat of Freedom” | Lexile: 925-1185
“Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lexile: N/A
ELA GRADE 7
Selections
with Lexile Levels
Unit 5: Science Matters
“Killer Bugs” | Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
Selections
“Fighting the Flu” | Lexile: 1100
“Viruses” | Lexile: 850
“Louis Pasteur: Medical Wonder Worker” | Lexile: 925-1185
“Gregor Mendel” | Lexile: 925-1185
“Human Genome Project” | Lexile: 950
Unit 6: Life Experiences
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Lexile: 1080
“A Crush” by Cynthia Rylant | Lexile: 1190
“Crossing the Creek” | Lexile: 925-1185
“What ‘Mental Retardation’ Means” from KidsHealth® | Lexile: 925-1185
with Lexile Levels