Lang. Arts/Social Studies Gr. 7

 
  
 
 
 
 
Language Arts

This year we will be using the Holt Elements of Literature text program, adopted in 2002, as the state budget removed the funding for the new series we were to pilot this year.

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Class Tutorials for each story, designed by Mr. Curry

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HOLT Literature and Language Arts 

Chapter 1: Plot
  • Duffy's Jacket by Bruce Coville
  • Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling
  • Three Skeleton Key by George G. Toudouze
  • The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling

Chapter 2: Characters
  • Seventh Grade by Gary Soto  
  • Mother and Daughter by Gary Soto
  • The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey
  • A Rice Sandwich by Sandra Cisneros
  • Antaeus by Borden Deal
  • A Day's Wait by Ernest Hemingway  (Personal Narrative)

Chapter 3: Theme
  • Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  • User Friendly by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
  • Echo and Narcissus retold by Roger Lancelyn
  • GreenMiss Awful by Arthur Cavanaugh

Chapter 4: Point of View

  • After Twenty Years by O. Henry
  • Bargain by A. B. Guthrie
  • Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie
  • Names / Nombres by Julia Alvarez
  • An Unforgettable Journey by Maijue Xiong
  • Elizabeth I by Milton Meltzer


Chaptrer 5: Prose and Poetry

  • Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas
  • from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
  • Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
  • Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan
  • A Mason-Dixon Memory by Clifton Davis
  • I’m Nobody! by Emily Dickinson
  • Poems by Anna Lee Walters and Gogisgi / Carroll Arnett
  • Poems by Langston Hughes
  • I Ask My Mother to Sing by Li-Young Lee
  • Ode to Family Photographs by Gary Soto
  • Father William by Lewis Carroll
  • Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
  • Poems by Robert Frost
  • Names of Horses by Donald Hall
  • Poems by E. E. Cummings
  • Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
  • For Poets by Al Young

Chapter 6: Myths and Folk Tales
  • The Myths of Greece and Rome
  • World Folk Tales

Chapter 7: Literary Criticism

  • King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone by Hudson Talbott
  • Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen
  • Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Betsy Hearne




 
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