In this grammar resource from PBS Learning Media, students will learn the difference between coordinating and cumulative adjectives and when to use commas between adjectives.

Echo is a nymph that likes to gossip so a spell is cast upon her to only reiterate things that she has heard. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Elizabeth I is the biography of Queen Elizabeth who reigned in England for 45 years from 1558 to 1603. Milton Meltzer chronologically highlights her birth into parliament rule, her historical influence on England’s political system and her untimely death that brought the end to a dynasty. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this lesson, students use a newspaper employment advertisement and work together to rewrite the ad using complete sentences. Student then rewrite the advertisement.

This resource includes one poem, with an accompanying link to the poem being read aloud, and nine text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

Students will begin to take what they have learned about human rights, the UN and apply it to an issue that is important to them. Students will work together to write a simple UN resolution to address that issue and present it to the class through a model UN activity. The lesson meets NCDPI global education goals such as investigating the world, recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas and taking action. Note: This lesson was created in accordance with the 7th Grade Social Studies Essential Standards and the VIF/Participate Global Competence Indicators for Grade 7. For more information about VIF/Participate and these indicators, please visit https://www.participate.com/. This lesson was developed by Lindsey Gallagher as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

In this series of lessons, students read newspaper articles obtained from newspaper websites. Students then identify journalism's "5 Ws and 1 H" (who, what, when, where, why, and how) and complete a template with the corresponding information they have found in the article. Finally, students use their notes to write a 20-word summary called a GIST. Once students have mastered writing a GIST using newspaper articles, the strategy is then applied to content area texts to support comprehension and summarizing skills.

In this lesson, students are introduced to a model essay on A Long Walk to Water and focus on the essay's use of quotes.

In this lesson students complete their end of unit assessment by revising their literary analysis essays based on teacher feedback.

In this assessment students read and analyze several text excerpts and select strong evidence to support their analysis.

In this lesson, students will revise their essays. Have independent activities ready for students who finish revising early. Teacher will provide a custom created mini lesson on common conventions errors.

This is the final writer’s workshop for students. Because the pace at which students write varies so greatly, you may consider doing the mini lesson on illustrations before the writing time. This way, students who are ready to move on to planning their illustrations may do so. Alternatively, if most of your class needs more time to complete the second draft, consider adding another work day.

In this lesson, students write book reviews for their independent reading books. Students also work on their children’s book illustrations. Finally, as their End of Unit 3 Assessment, students turn in a packet of work that includes their second draft of their Storyboard, plus related materials: their first draft, the rubric, a self-assessment, and their I Heart Revisions worksheet.

In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This resource includes informational paried passage mini-assessment that includes two articles and one accompanying recording, thirteen text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS. Articles included are “High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens,” by Michelle Trudeau and “High schools will keep starting too early. Here’s why" by Dan Weissman.

This resource contains a collection of worksheets and activities on the proper use of homophones, homonyms, and homographs

In this lesson students will work in groups to create human sentences to demonstrate how to correctly use commas when punctuating dates in sentences.

Featuring the India Arie song "I Am Not My Hair," this lesson takes students through the pre-writing, production, and editing phases of an informative essay.

In this reflective essay, Chief Dan George compares his native North American culture with that of white culture. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this essay through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.