Discover the Reading Council of Southern New Jersey

7th Grade Language Arts

Next Book Report due: May 31

Contact: brewer@upperschools.org ---- 628-3513 x2290

Daily Edit

Diagramming to locate parts of speech

Robert D. Ballard author of "Exploring the Titanic"


The Underground Railroad

 

Read the story of a WWII survivor, Arlette Michaelis
5


See Timeline of Arlette's Life

 

~~Persuasion~~

Ethos, Pathos, Logos and Statistics

Meet the Slowskys

Persuasive Writing by Mrs. Brewer

Graphic Organizer

Poetry : notes and sites

More on Poetry :-)

Shel Silverstein

VOCABULARY STUDY AND PRACTICE site
Our level B book pronounces and explains each word :-)

 

Read about the author of "War of the Wall":

Toni Cade Bambara

 

 

 

Rikki- Tikki- Tavi
the story on-line

by

Rudyard Kipling

India

Terms:

Bungalow

Mongoose

Cobra

Tailor-bird

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

 

 

Practice spelling vocabulary here

Reading and Writing

DailyHomework

Daily HW Checklist

Monthly Book Report Reading Requirements

Literature Notes

 

Authors
Research
Writing
 

 

More Authors

 

 

Persuasive Writing by Mrs. Brewer

~ Learn and Quiz yourself on Figurative Language ~



Phantom of the Opera
printable doc


Limericks


Newsletter template
or
Create a newspaper in WORD

Web-tivity on Eleanor Roosevelt

Making a Video Commercial
Sample Script
Blank Script

 

Handwriting, a lost art: Calligraphy

Author Study:



Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowlings
Watch as she reads the beginning of the story here

Watch
(the movie clips) of
Harry Potter

 

Art For Fun:

 

Classroom Information:

All about Diagramming sentences


 

Stories online

Literature

Series of Unfortunate Events website

A translator for Sunny's words

Story Elements

Biopoem

Biopoem samples

Phantom of the Opera

Grammar

Uses of the Comma

Grammar Tips

Parts of Speech

Diagramming

Transitional Words

Sentences:
http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/sentences.htm
http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/rvsntstr.html
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sentence_types_quiz.htm
http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/compoundsentences/game.shtml

Writing

Poetry

Persuasive Writing by Mrs. Brewer

Steps to Writing a Character Description by Mrs. Brewer

Writing a Personal Narrative:

Tips

Self-scoring

Miscellaneous Interesting Sites:

The Nine Multiple Intelligences

Graphmaker

Characterization: an on-line graphic map-maker!

 

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

3

 

Langston Hughes

Listen to Langston Hughes read his poem

 

 

Phantom of the Opera
printable doc

Check out Magnetic Poetry and click on one of the 4 kits

Download free trial :Inspiration.com


Back to School Information

Suggested tools for class: Eraser Mate pens, pencils, 2 and 3 subject notebooks or 1 five subject notebook, 1-2 durable folders, and floppy disk and/or flash disk.


A Favorite Poem of all time:

Homework! Oh, Homework!
by Jack Prelutsky

============
Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you
away in the sink.
If only a bomb
would explode you to bits.
Homework! Oh, homework!
You're giving me fits.
I'd rather take baths
with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver,
pet ten porcupines,
than tackle the homework
my teacher assigns.
Homework! Oh, homework!
You're last on my list.
I simply can't see
why you even exist.
If you just disappeared
it would tickle me pink.
Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!

Watch the NY Giants celebrate their 2007-2008 victory!