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. 

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 7th grade ELA content.

Students will create an alternate ending to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This assignment will have three separate parts. 

An engineering and design lesson for middle school (our 7th grade standards).

In the aftermath of a natural disaster, can you engineer a device that will keep medicine within a 40-60°F range using natural resources from the biome you live in, and/or debris created by the disaster for three days, until the Red Cross can arrive?

You are a team of relief workers in __________________after a major earthquake/tsunami has occurred. Your team lead as just told you about a young women with diabetes has been injured and needs insulin to be delivered __________ miles away (no open roads). Your team will need to research, design, and build a portable device to keep the insulin between _____ and ______ °(F/C) for _____ days. Once you return you will present the effectiveness of your device to your lead and a team other relief workers showing your both your design/device and explaining the process.

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Science created this resource as part of an online workshop series, but you are welcome to use or modify it for your classroom. It includes a video and written directions for creating nature journals and tips for incorporating them into your classroom. For information on taking any the Nature Neighborhood online workshops for CEUs or EE credit, visit: https://naturalsciences.org/learn/educators/online-workshops.

In this lesson students are introduced to their performance task for the module, a two voice poem, in order to give the teacher time to give students feedback on their literary analysis essays.

In this lesson students gather textual evidence from both the novel and information text to begin preparing for their two-voice poems.

In this lesson students read a model poem focusing on how the author of the poem used evidence.

In this lesson, students learn the difference between a narrative and a summary. This will make it easier for them to turn their summary of an episode from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass into an engaging story.

In this lesson, students will begin to articulate the theme of their children’s books.

In this lesson, students prepare for Part 1 of the mid-unit assessment and plan their children’s book.

In this lesson, students begin writing the first drafts of their children’s books. Before they begin writing, you teach the first of three mini lessons on the narrative writer’s tools. Today students learn about show-not-tell and sensory details.

Lessons 6–8 are writing workshops, and the students are expected to work quietly and independently. Before students begin writing today, you teach the second of three mini lessons on the narrative writer’s tools. Today they learn about strong verbs, sensory details, and precise details.

This lesson is the second day of the writer’s workshop. It includes a mini lesson on writing dialogue. Be sure to stress the importance of keeping dialogue short and focused only on pivotal moments.

In this lesson, students will discuss their plans for their children's book and work on creating that plan to guide their writing.

After reading narratives from former slaves that were recorded in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writers' Project, students conduct research on slavery and tell a story based on their findings. The lesson incorporates an exploration of storytelling techniques.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade English Language Arts.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade ELA.