7th Grade: English Language Arts
A team of Northshore School District educators curated these supplemental learning resources to support asynchronous learning opportunities. This page includes instructional videos from open educational resources that were used during the 2020-21 school year.
Quarter 1
Quarter 1 English Language Arts
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Analyze genres and their organizational structures
- Narrative elements
- Elements of effective revision for narrative and explanatory writing
- Textual evidence
- Writing coherence and sentence variety
- Commas, punctuation, compound-complex sentences
- Genres: poetry, personal narrative, memoir, myth, fable, informational text
Instructional Videos
- TES: Personal Narratives
- SchoolTube: How to Create a Story Map to Plan your Writing
- Khan Academy: Introduction to Storytelling
- Khan Academy: Reading within and across genres
- TED.Ed: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- TED.Ed: The Road Less Traveled
- YouTube: The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost (Powerful Life Poetry)
- NYTimes: The Read Around: Nikki Giovanni
- YouTube: The Scholarship Jacket
- Khan Academy: Introduction to Possessive Nouns
- Khan Academy: Possessive Nouns
- Grammar Monster: Possessive Nouns
- Reading Rockets: A Video Interview with Walter Dean Myers
- Library of Congress: Walter Dean Myers
- YouTube: What is theme?
- Crash Course: What is a Myth?
- Youtube: Helios and Phaethon and the Sun Chariot | Stories for Children
- TED.ED: The myth of Arachne - Iseult Gillespie
- Khan Academy: Introduction to story structure
- School Tube: Using Context Clues
- Ted Ed: The myth behind the Chinese zodiac
- Ted Ed: The myth of Oisin and the land of eternal youth
- YouTube: What is symbolism?
- Oregon State: What is Symbolism?
- YouTube: How to write a myth
Quarter 2
Quarter 2 English Language Arts
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Reading a variety of informational texts (see genres below)
- Write an informational essay that explains
- Research topic and use text features to locate information
- Take notes
- Write on topic with introduction, body and conclusion
- Use main idea, details to support and facts
- Study media and advertisements
- Write an argumentative essay on an issue
- Apply claim, evidence, and reasoning
- Understand counterclaim and rhetoric
- Language/Grammar Skills: compound sentences, parallel structure, easily confused words, phrases and clauses, complex sentences, dangling modifiers
- Genres: Informational text, film, article, news, speech, essay
Instructional Videos
- Khan Academy: 7th Grade Reading and Vocab
- Crash Course: Intro to Media Literacy
- Crash Course: 12 Episode Course on Media Literacy
- Crash Course: Into to Online Information
- Common Sense Education: Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy for Students
- Food in Commercials vs. Real Life
- Crash Course: Taking Notes
- McGraw-Hill: Claims and Supporting Evidence
- Crash Course: How to Argue?
- How to Write an Argumentative Essay by Shmoop
- Shmoop: Power in Literature (Great site for short educational videos)
- Shmoop: Reliable Sources
Quarter 3 & 4
Quarter 3 & 4 English Language Arts
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Textual evidence
- Understand flashback and foreshadowing
- Analyze, infer, and evaluate literary text
- Analyze a variety of informational texts
- Understand motif, mood, meter, rhyme scheme
- Write to sources; cite sources
- Compare print. film and poetry forms
- Language & Grammar Skills:
- Punctuation, direct quotations. transitions, verbs, conjunctions, appositives,
- Active vs. passive voice, adjectival and prepositional phrases, dangling and misplaced modifiers
- Genres: Novel, poetry, film, biography, autobiography, informational text, song, speech
Instructional Video
- Khan Academy: 7th Grade Reading and Vocab Unit
- Khan Academy: Stakes: What are the consequences of any choice?
- Khan Academy: Pixar in a Box: The Art of Storytelling
- Khan Academy: Obscuring the Truth
- MiaAcademy: 7th Grade ELA Playlist
- Youth Speak: What makes a great leader?
- Kid President: What makes an Awesome Leader?
- Shmoop: Analysis Essay
- Shmoop: Choosing and Using Quotations
- Shmoop: How to Identify Between Summary and Analysis