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7th Grade ELA Teacher Guide
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This resource accompanies our Rethink 7th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Curriculum
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Kelly Rawlston
Letoria Lewis
Date Added:
10/12/2022
Annabel Lee: Anthology
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This is a poem about love that Poe has written in memory of his wife, whom he calls Annabel Lee. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Achieve the Core
Author:
Achieve to the Core
Date Added:
02/26/2019
A Character Life Box Getting to Know Your Characters Through Words and Images
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This language arts lesson offers a hands-on opportunity for students to understand characterization in literature and to connect historical and contemporary culture. Through research and study of Shakespearean England, student pairs get to know about the life of a character in the book Shakespeare Stealer. Students collect props and clues to create a “life box” and a poem about their character. Using props adds a visual and physical dimension to their learning while using words engages mental facilities, making this a whole brain activity. Students must communicate their clues and interpret others clues to reveal character’s identities.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
Author:
Ann Reilly
Mary Beth Bauernschub
Date Added:
04/04/2018
"Cotton Candy" by Edward Hirsch
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This lesson plan is the fourth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series.It provides a video of the poet, Edward Hirsch, offering a little backstory, then reading the poem "Cotton Candy." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Date Added:
09/06/2019
Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
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Students will become engaged learners through this unit that prepares students for studying ancient Greece with digital storytelling skills. First students develop a list of questions to research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures. Then with a partner, they choose the topic of their research and divide the questions between themselves. After conducting research, the partners write scripts for their digital story using the online tool PowToon.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Kathy Wickline
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem
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In this lesson, students engage in a close reading of Hopper's painting and an Edward Hirsch poem to explore the types of emotion generated by each work in the viewer or reader, and how the painter and poet each achieved these responses.

Subject:
Arts Education
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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EDSITEments
Author:
Diane Moroff
Date Added:
04/04/2009
Expository Escapade - Detective's Handbook
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In this lesson the students will be using a variety of skills to analyze fiction and expository texts. This combines the reading of detective fiction with written expository analysis in the form of a Detective’s Handbook. Each student reads a detective mystery, and the class watches and analyzes Murder She Purred to establish a collective example.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Lisa Gaines
Date Added:
02/26/2019
"From The Wave" by Thom Gunn
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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.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Achieve the Core
Author:
Achieve the Core
Date Added:
02/26/2019
GEDB Human Rights: Model UN Activity (Lesson 8 of 8)
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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.            

Subject:
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
12/03/2019
"The Giver" Activity
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www.storyboardthat.com is a graphic novel style resource that allows the students to create a timeline of the book they are reading. This can be used for various media to create a summary of the lesson.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson
Date Added:
12/04/2019
Glogging About Natural Disasters
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As background knowledge to Susan Pfeffer’s novels, The Dead and the Gone and Life as We Knew It, students research natural disasters for this lesson. In these two companion novels set in two different locations in the United States, the world’s environment has been changed because the moon has been pushed closer to the earth. This disturbance causes a series of natural disasters and epidemics. To fully understand the effects natural disasters have had on the world’s environment, each student researches a different natural disaster. Then they use these facts as well as safety tips in unique glogs, online interactive multimedia posters, that will include student-recorded weather announcements.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Mary E. Shea
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Images of Othello: A Shakespearean WebQuest
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This lesson will use the "infinite variety" of resources on the Internet to let students find their own image of Othello. The lesson will take them on a WebQuest, first to textual references, and then to on-line searches for images of Othello in film, play productions, and art. Then, students will write an essay about the casting of Othello to conclude the lesson.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
PBS
Author:
Michael LoMonico
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives
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Students will explore images from the Klondike and read White Fang closely to learn how to define and differentiate these terms, ultimately presenting their findings as nature and culture detectives.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Author:
Edsitement
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Lesson 5: The Storyteller's Toolbox and Excerpt 4 First Read
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IN this lesson ,students will learn how a storyteller can bring a story to life. They will identify the tools of a storyteller by watching The People Could Fly video, as well as listening to the first read through of Excerpt 4 and using the Storyteller's Toolbox anchor chart as a guide.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Public Consulting Group, Inc.
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014
Lesson 6: Consolidation of Understanding: Bringing Douglass's Words to Life: The Fight with Covey
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In this lesson, students will review their understanding of Excerpt 4 from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and then use storyteller techniques to retell a section of the story.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Public Consulting Group, Inc.
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014
Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD)
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Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) is a comprehension strategy that builds students' prior knowledge before they read a text. During the first stage, students listen as you present the content of their reading through a lecture, often paired with a graphic organizer. Next, students read the text and compare what they have learned during the lecture to their understanding of reading the text on their own. Finally, students discuss their understanding of the text with other students in their small/large group.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
PBS
Author:
Adolescent Literacy
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Maya Angelou
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In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Author:
Teaching Tolerance
Date Added:
02/26/2019