7th Grade Literature
Teacher: Allison St. John

Course textbooks:

• Prentice Hall Literature Grade Seven (ISBN: 0-13-131714-8)
  
• The Three Musketeers (ISBN: 978-0140367478)
  
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (ISBN: 978-0486282145)
  
• Hunger Games (ISBN: 978-0439023528)
  
• Peter Pan (ISBN: 978-0486414218)

Curriculum overview:
This year, students will read a variety of literature, including short stories, drama, poetry, and mythologies. Students will also participate in a weekly book club, discussing the novels The Three Musketeers, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Hunger Games, and Peter Pan. Students will complete creative writing projects as well as an essay project each quarter.

Literature Goals

• Identify, practice, and use literary elements in reading and writing.
  
• Produce a 5-paragraph essay with a supported thesis.
  
• Deliver effective oral presentations to an audience.
  
• Write creative writing texts that incorporate various literary elements.
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of different types of literature, such as short stories, dramas, poems, and myths. 
  

8th Grade Literature 
Teacher: Allison St. John

Course textbooks:

• Prentice Hall Literature Grade Seven (ISBN: 0-13-131714-8)
  
• The Three Musketeers (ISBN: 978-0140367478)
  
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (ISBN: 978-0486282145)
  
• Hunger Games (ISBN: 978-0439023528)
  
• Peter Pan (ISBN: 978-0486414218)
  

Curriculum overview:
This year, students will read a variety of literature, including short stories, drama, poetry, and mythologies. Students will also participate in a weekly book club, discussing the novels The Three Musketeers, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Hunger Games, and Peter Pan. Students will complete creative writing projects as well as an essay project each quarter.

Literature Goals

• Identify, practice, and use literary elements in reading and writing.
  
• Produce a 5-paragraph essay with a supported thesis.
  
• Deliver effective oral presentations to an audience.
  
• Write creative writing texts that incorporate various literary elements.
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of different types of literature, such as short stories, dramas, poems, and myths. 

7th Grade Language Arts
Teacher: Maureen Zane

Course textbooks: 

• Prentice Hall Grammar and Writing (ISBN: 0-13-200962-5)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Literal Skills (ISBN: 1-4189-2914-X)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Inferential Skills (ISBN: 978-1418929060)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Critical Thinking Skills (ISBN: 1-4189-2922-0)
  

Curriculum overview:
This year, students will build their grammar, reading comprehension, and writing skills. Students will complete projects on narrative, professional, persuasive, and research writing. Students will also strengthen their literal, inferential, and critical thinking reading skills.

Language Arts Goals

• Demonstrate knowledge of the parts of speech and how they are used.
  
• Utilize the five steps of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
  
• Write narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive essays.
  
• Write essays containing formal introductions, supporting evidence, and conclusions.
  
• Produce a 3-to-5-paragraph essay each quarter that exhibits application of sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, and capitalizations skills.
  
• Use literal, inferential, and critical thinking skills to understand a written text.
  
• Deliver a persuasive presentation, as well as provide feedback to peers on their presentations.
  

8th Grade Language Arts
Teacher: Allison St. John

Course textbooks: 

• Prentice Hall Literature Grade Eight (ISBN: 0-13-131716-4)
  
• Prentice Hall Grammar and Writing (ISBN: 0-13-200962-5)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Literal Skills (ISBN: 1-4189-2914-X)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Inferential Skills (ISBN: 978-1418929060)
  
• Rigby Great Strides Critical Thinking Skills (ISBN: 1-4189-2922-0)
  

Curriculum overview:
This year, students will build their grammar, reading comprehension, and writing skills. Students will complete projects on narrative, professional, persuasive, and research writing. Students will also strengthen their literal, inferential, and critical thinking reading skills.

Language Arts Goals

• Understand and use correct grammar in written compositions.
  
• Utilize the five steps of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
  
• Use literal, inferential, and critical thinking skills to understand a written text.
  
• Write a 5-paragraph expository essay.
  
• Deliver effective oral presentations to an audience.