7th+grade+English

Here is a link to the //Scope// (magazine) digital materials

[|Digital materials for Scope magazine]

 Here are links to the spelling lists for the first semester of 2015-2016. Mr. Galpin will be responsible for putting the lists for the second semester on this page. These lists of words are the same words you will be discussing in your Reading class with Mrs. Knodel. They include words from the academic vocabulary list for each unit, words from the selections you will read with Mrs. Knodel, and words discussed in the vocabulary, grammar, and/or writing workshops or media studies in the various units. I will give you a copy of the word list each week in class and explain what pages the words are discussed on in you reading textbook.























Here is a link to the "We Are The Solution" video clip made by some middle school students. It has an anti-bullying message. [|"We Are The Solution"]

Patriot's Pen essay contest

[|Essay Contest Winner]

Here is a link to some videos about the Founding Fathers.

[|Founding Fathers]

[|PBS: Founding Fathers]

Here is a link called "Digital History." It contains a lot of information that might be helpful to you as you work on your Patriot's Pen essay.

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Here is a link to an interactive spelling game.

[|Interactive Spelling]

Here is a link to a neat vocabulary resource.

[|Lexipedia]

Here is the link to //Scope// magazine's electronic resources.

[|Scope]


 * //Literature//**

Unit 5 - "Appreciating Poetry"

Here is a copy of the presentation plan you will write as part of the Writing Workshop for this unit. It will be based on one or more of the poems you read in Unit 5.

Here is a sample of the first draft of the online feature article you will write as part of the Writing Workshop for this unit. It will be based on one of the poems you read in Unit 5.



Here is a copy of the grading rubric that will be used for your feature article with hyperlinks.

//**I**////**mage Grammar**// Here is a project to complete as a review for //Image Grammar -// Section 1 - "Painting with Brush Strokes."



When we have completed Section 1 of //Image Grammar,// "Painting with Brush Strokes," you will write an essay. As you revise your essay, you will need to include two of each of the five types of brush strokes we have studied and then complete this worksheet on which you write down the sentences containing those brush strokes. Here is that worksheet.



Here is a video clip from Martin Luther King.Jr's visit to the keloland studios in SIoux Falls many years ago [|Martin Luther Kimg, Jr.]

Here is a video clip Martin Luther King, Jr's famous speech "I Have a Dream."

[|"I Have a Dream"] Here ia project to complete as a review for //Image Grammar// - Section 2 - "The Musical Rhythm of Language"



Here is an assignment that asks you to apply to your own essay the strateies you have been learning, including those from //Image Grammar -// Section 3 - Specific Details: The Close-Up Power of the Zoom Lens."



Here is a list of the assignments for //Image Grammar//- Section 4 -"The Strategies of Conventions."



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