7th Grade Magnet English (Period 4)

      In this course, students continue their work in becoming college and career ready, grappling with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Students will read works that offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students’ own thinking and writing. Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication, students will gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references, and images; the ability to evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount the challenges posed by complex texts.

           As a writer in this course, students will refine the art of asserting and defending claims, showing what they know about a subject, and conveying what they have experienced, imagined, thought, and felt. They will take task, purpose, and audience into careful consideration, choosing words, information, structures, and formats deliberately. They will learn how to combine elements of different kinds of writing—for example, to use narrative strategies within argument and explanation within narrative—to produce complex and nuanced writing, and use technology strategically when creating, refining, and collaborating on writing. Additionally, students will become increasingly adept at gathering information, evaluating sources, and citing material accurately, reporting findings from their research and analysis of sources in a clear and cogent manner.

Book List

The books that your scholar will read this year may include, but are not limited to: