Seventh grade research and citation, even when you’re behind
…which is why I keep telling people not to save research for the end of the year. In most seventh grade English language arts classrooms I know, research lives in the back half of the calendar. It comes after the narrative unit, after the argument essays, and... read more
Seventh grade ELA lesson on adapting speech to the audience
By the second half of the year, seventh graders have usually given a presentation or two. Most of us have watched the same thing happen. A student who argues brilliantly at lunch stands at the front of the room and either freezes into stiff, borrowed vocabulary or... read more
A seventh grade ELA lesson on citing sources in digital writing
This lesson is for seventh graders who can type a decent paragraph but treat a website like something you borrow from and then forget. It is a seventh grade English language arts lesson from the ELA 7 Writing course, it runs about 45 minutes, and it fits the student... read more