Welcome to 7th & 8th Grade Language Arts!

 

Mrs Holleran

 

 

 

7th Grade Language Arts

 
Grammar
 
Warriner's English Composition and Grammar
 
  • writing complete sentences
  • writing effective sentences
  • kinds of sentences - simple, compound, complex
  • sentence fragments and run-on sentences
  • year long review on the 8 parts of speech => complements - subject / object
  • diagramming of all parts of speech
 
Vocabulary
 
Vocabulary Workshop
 
  • 15 Units @ 20 words per unit
  • spelling /definitions / usage / synonyms / antonyms and analogies
  • testing is accumulative
 
Literature
 
novels:
 
S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders
John Steinbeck
The Call of the Wild
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 
 
play:
 
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
 
short stories:
 
Ray Bradbury.
"The Pedestrian"
 
 
O’Henry
"After Twenty Years"
 
"The Gift of the Magi"
Washington Irving
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Shirley Jackson
"Charles"
Jack London
"To Build a Fire"
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Cask of the Amontillado"
 
"Annabel Lee" (poem)
Mark Twain
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
 
 
 
 
elements of literature: 
  • humor
  • irony ( verbal, situational, dramatic,exaggeration, understatement)
  • literary terms: plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view
 
writing: 
  • focus questions and answers on reading assignments
  • paragraph writing: narrative / descriptive / expository / compare-contrast
 

8th Grade Language Arts

Grammar
 
Warriner's English Composition and Grammar
 
  • sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
  • agreement (subject / verb, pronoun / antecedent)
  • phrases (prepositional/verbal / appositive)
  • clauses (noun / adjective / adverb)
  • pronoun cases (nominative / objective / possessive)
  • mechanics (capitalization / punctuation / and quotations)
 
Vocabulary
 
Vocabulary Workshop
 
  • 15 Units @ 20 words per unit
  • spelling / definitions / usage / synonyms / antonyms analogies
  • testing is accumulative
 
Literature
 
 
novels:
 
Avi
Nothing: But the Truth
Todd Strasser
The Wave
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
John Steinbeck
The Pearl
 
 
play:
 
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
 
 
short stories:
 
Ray Bradbury
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
Truman Capote
"A Christmas Memory"
Richard Connell
"The Most Dangerous Game"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
Shirley Jackson
"The Lottery"
W.W. Jacobs
"The Monkey's Paw"
Peter Leary
"Experiment 0233681"
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Frank Stockton
"The Lady or the Tiger"
James Thurber
" The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Anton Chekhov
"The Bet"
Writing
  • questions and answers on reading assignments
  • paragraph writing:
    • chronology humor
    • surprise
    • setting and mood
Essay Assignment
  • 5 paragraph persuasive paper
  • research / writing an essay / presentation