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Level II

Unit 1 Fiction Meeting the Unexpected

Grade 7

Illinois Learning Standards English Language Arts

Introduction to Fiction 4 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

Guided Reading Understanding Plot 6

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e, 1.C.3f

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3c

Fiction Reading Model 8

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c

After Twenty Years by O. Henry 9

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3b Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b Research 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Vocabulary & Spelling Denotation and Connotation 16

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b

Understanding Characters 17

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b

The 11:59 by Patricia McKissack 18

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection from A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Fredrick

McKissack 26

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.B.3b Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Understanding Setting 29 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b

The Inn of Lost Time by Lensey Namioka 30

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

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Grammar & Style Subject-Verb Agreement 48

Writing 3.B.3b

Directed Reading The Portrait by Tomás Rivera 49

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement 56

Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway 57

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Primary Source Connection Mars Climate Orbiter Team Finds Likely Cause of Loss Press Release by NASA 61

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.C.3b

The War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara 63

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b

Grammar & Style Nominative and Objective Pronouns 72

Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

The Foghorn by Ray Bradbury 73

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3a

Informational Text Connection The Aqualung by David Macauley 83

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.A.3b

Comparing Literature 85 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling 86

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a

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The Green Mamba by Roald Dahl 98

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a

Independent Reading Uncle Tony’s Goat by Leslie Marmon Silko 105

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.C.3c

The Serial Garden by Joan Aiken 111

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

For Your Reading List 125 Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3d

Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Responding to a Short Story 126

Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Oral Summaries 132

Reading 1.C.3d, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a,

4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Literary Response from The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico 134 Revising and Editing Skills 135

Reading 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

Reading Skills 136 The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a

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Unit 2 Fiction

Learning Values Grade 7


Guided Reading Understanding Point of View 140

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Hollywood and the Pits by Cherylene Lee 141

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.2d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b

Understanding Theme 153 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a

The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas 154

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.2b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Comma Use 162

Writing 3.B.3b

Directed Reading Amigo Brothers by Piri Thomas 163

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection from The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers 173

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Vocabulary & Spelling Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes 176

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b

Four Skinny Trees by Sandra Cisneros 177

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

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The White Umbrella by Gish Jen 181

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Grammar & Style Independent and Dependent Clauses 190

Reading 1.B.3d

Comparing Literature 191 Jed’s Grandfather by Joseph Bruchac 192

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a

The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay 197

Reading 1.A.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Antaeus by Borden Deal 199

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Literature Connection in the inner city by Lucille Clifton 210

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Seventh Grade by Gary Soto 212

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Consistent Verb Tense 219

Writing 3.B.3b

Independent Reading Papa’s Parrot by Cynthia Rylant 220

Reading: 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature: 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing: 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research: 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

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The Smallest Dragonboy by Anne McCaffrey 224

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3c

For Your Reading List 237 Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Writing 3.B.3a

Writing Workshop Narrative Writing: Writing a Short Story 238

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Literary Presentations 246

Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Literary Response 248 Revising and Editing Skills 249

Reading 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3b

Reading Skills The Ground Is Always Damp, by Luci Tapahonso 250

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a

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Unit 3 Nonfiction

Experiencing the World Grade 7


Introduction to Nonfiction 254 Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3c

Guided Reading Nonfiction Reading Model 256

Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

from An American Childhood by Annie Dillard 257

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Phrases 264

Writing 3.B.3b

Elizabeth I by Milton Meltzer 265

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.C.3b

Primary Source Connection from Queen Elizabeth’s Speech to Her Last Parliament 277 Written with a Diamond on

Her Window at Woodstock Written in Her French

Psalter from Letter to Mary, Queen of Scots, 1586 278

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Listening and Speaking 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Vocabulary & Spelling Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon Roots 280

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Understanding the Essay 281 Reading 1.B.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d

Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez 282

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Literature Connection Face It by Janet S. Wong 289

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

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The Eternal Frontier by Louis L’Amour 291

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Sentence Types 296

Writing 3.B.3b

Directed Reading from Off the Court by Arthur Ashe 297

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection A Black Athlete Looks at Education by Arthur Ashe 310

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man? by Bill Cosby 312

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3b Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan 317

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Grammar & Style Fragments and Run-on Sentences 321

Writing 3.B.3b

Comparing Literature 322 A Bittersweet Memoir by Jerry Izenberg 323

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Searching for January by W.P. Kinsella 333

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a

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Madam C. J. Walker by Jim Haskins 340

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b

Literature Connection The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles by Faith Ringgold 348

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Independent Reading from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza 352

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a

Literature 2.A.3d Writing 3.C.3a Research 5.B.3a

The Night the Bed Fell by James Thurber 356

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

For Your Reading List 361 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a

Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Cause-and-Effect Essay 362

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Informative Presentations 368

Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Expository Essay from Alone Across the Arctic by Pam Flowers 370 Revising and Editing Skills 371

Reading 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b

Reading Skills from Flying by Reeve Lindbergh 372

Reading 1.A.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a

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Unit 4 Nonfiction

Responding to Nature Grade 7


Introduction to Informational Text and Visual Media 376

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Guided Reading The Size of Things by Robert Jastrow 378

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d

Literature Connection Achieving Perspective 386

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Adjective and Adverb Clauses 389

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3b

from The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley 390

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e, 1.C.3f

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Informational Text Connection from “Wild Turkey” by John James Audubon 394

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Directed Reading Ships in the Desert by Al Gore 396

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection I Am a Native of North America by Chief Dan George 403

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Simple and Compound Subjects 407

Writing 3.B.3b

Comparing Literature 408 Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird by Diane Ackerman 409

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

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The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter by William Saroyan 412

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

The Face of the Deep Is Frozen by Jennifer Armstrong 415

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Literature Connection Fire and Ice by Robert Frost 421

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Vocabulary & Spelling Context Clues 423

Reading 1.A.3b

Hmong Storycloth 424 Reading 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Primary Source Connection An Unforgettable Journey by Maijue Xiong 426

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b,

5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Dust Bowl Photographs 432 Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection Dust Changes America by Margaret Bourke-White 436

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.b.3a, 5.C.3c

Independent Reading Death in the Open by Lewis Thomas 440

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3d

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Astonishing Animals by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten 443

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

For Your Reading List 447

Reading 1.B.3d Writing 3.B.3a

Writing Workshop Descriptive Writing: Descriptive Essay 448

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

Viewing Workshop Critical Viewing 454

Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c, 4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Descriptive Essay 456 Revising and Editing Skills 457

Reading 1.C.3a Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

Reading Skills from Beastly Behaviors by Janine Benyus 458

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.B.3a

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Unit 5 Poetry

Appreciating Life Grade 7


Introduction to Poetry 462 Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

Guided Reading Understanding Imagery and Figurative Language 464

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d

Poetry Reading Model 465 Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3d

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a

Gold by Pat Mora 466

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Feel Like a Bird by May Swenson 469

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Understanding Sound Devices 473 Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a

Father William by Lewis Carroll 475

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a

Grammar & Style Personal and Possessive Pronouns 480

Writing 3.B.3b

Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell 481

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a

Vocabulary & Spelling Synonyms and Antonyms 484

Reading 1.A.3b Research 5.B.3a

Level II Page 14

Directed Reading The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 485

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Grammar & Style Nouns: Proper, Plural, Possessive, and Collective 490

Writing 3.B.3b

Mother to Son by Langston Hughes 491

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.C.3b

Under the Apple Tree by Diana Rivera 495

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

Informational Text Connection from The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan 498

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns 501

Writing 3.B.3b

The Tropics in New York by Claude McKay 502

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Comparing Literature 505 Unfolding Bud by Naoshi Koriyama 506

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3b Research 5.B.3a

How to Eat a Poem by Eve Merriam 508

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Haiku by Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson,

and Kobayashi Issa 510

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Research 5.B.3a

Level II Page 15

Informational Text Connection from Lost in Translation by Steven Harvey 513

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.B.3a

the sky was by E.E. Cummings 515

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.B.3a

Independent Reading Two People I Want to Be Like by Eve Merriam 518

Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a Research 5.C.3c

Miracles by Walt Whitman 520

Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2A.3c, 2.A.3d,

2.B.3a Writing 2.B.3a

Early Song by Gogisgi 522

Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

For Your Reading List 523 Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3d

Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Compare-and-Contrast Essay 524

Reading 1.B.3d Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3e

Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Expository Presentations 530

Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3b, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Expository Essay Song by Robert Browning The Gardener (LXXXV) by Rabindranath Tagore 532 Revising and Editing Skills 533

Reading 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.A.3a, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

Level II Page 16

Reading Skills Silver by Walter de la Mare 534

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.B.3a

Level II Page 17

Unit 6 Poetry

Searching Beneath the Surface Grade 7


Guided Reading Understanding Meaning in Poetry 538

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg 539

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Grammar & Style Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences 543


Once by the Pacific by Robert Frost 544

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Directed Reading Comparing Literature 547 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 548

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3c

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes 551

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

The Filling Station by Elizabeth Bishop 557

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

Vocabulary & Spelling Figurative Language 561

Reading 1.A.3b Literature 2.A.3a Writing 3.B.3a

Name Giveaway by Phil George 562

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

Level II Page 18

Primary Source Connection from An Indian Boy’s Story by Ah-nen-la-de-ni 564

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3b,

5.C.3c

Vocabulary & Spelling Spelling by Syllables 567


Ancestors by Dudley Randall 568

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a, 3.C.3b Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Simple, Complete, and Compound Predicates 571


The Lost Parrot by Naomi Shihab Nye 572

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.2d, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a

For My Father by Janice Mirikitani 576

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Money Order by Janet S. Wong 580

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3c

Sisters by Janet S. Wong 582

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a

Independent Reading I’m Nobody by Emily Dickinson 584

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Refugee Ship by Lorna Dee Cervantes 586

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a

Level II Page 19

Loo Wit by Wendy Rose 588

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

The Pasture by Robert Frost 591

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

For Your Reading List 593 Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a

Writing Workshop Narrative Writing: Personal Narrative 594

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a

Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Narrative Presentations 600

Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.A.3d, 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Personal Essay 602 Revising and Editing Skills 603

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.c.3a

Reading Skills from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 604

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.B.3a

Level II Page 20

Unit 7 Drama

Facing Challenges Grade 7


Introduction to Drama 608 Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c

Guided Reading Drama Reading Model 610

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d

Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

A Defenseless Creature by Neil Simon 611

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Grammar & Style Verbals: Participles, Gerunds, and Infinitives 622

Writing 3.A.3

Directed Reading A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act 1 by Israel Horovitz 623


Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3c Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Informational Text Connection from What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Diana Pool 642

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act 2 by Israel Horovitz 645


Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3b, 4.A.3d,

4.B.3d Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Primary Source Connection from A Christmas Carol by John Leech 665

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b, 5.C.3c

Level II Page 21

Vocabulary & Spelling Using Dictionaries and Thesauruses 668

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Let Me Hear You Whisper by Paul Zindel 669

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a

Informational Text Connection from Going Ape Over Language by Natalie Rosinsky 683

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3b, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Comparing Literature 687 St. Crispian’s Day Speech by William Shakespeare 688

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 690

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Punctuation: Dashes, Semicolons, and Colons 693

Writing 3.B.3b

Independent Reading The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling 694

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3e

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3d Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

For Your Reading List 709

Reading 1.B.3d Literature 2.A.3c

Writing Workshop Persuasive Writing: Persuasive Essay 710


Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Persuasive Presentations 716


Level II Page 22

Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Persuasive Essay from Braille: The Early Life of Louis Braille by Lola H. and Coleman A. Jennings 718 Revising and Editing Skills 719

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

Reading Skills 720 from The Ugly Duckling by A.A. Milne 720

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.B.3a

Level II Page 23

Unit 8 Oral Tradition

Seeking Wisdom Grade 7


Introduction to the Oral Tradition 724 Reading 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c

Guided Reading Oral Traditional Reading Model 726

Reading 1.B.3a, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a

Persephone and Demeter by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire 727

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a

Eshu by Judith Gleeson 733

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3b Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b, 5.C.3c

Directed Reading The Secret Name of Ra by Geraldine Harris 738

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d

Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3c

Literature Connection Akhenaton’s Hymn to the Sun by John A. Wilson 743

Reading 1.A.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Vocabulary & Spelling Homographs, Homophones, and Homonyms 746

Reading 1.A.3b

Tsali of the Cherokees by Alice Lee Marriott 747

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a, 2.B.3c Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.C.3c

Informational Text Connection Moving West: A Native American Perspective by Christine Graf 755

Reading 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.B.3b, 5.B.3c

Level II Page 24

We Are All One by Laurence Yep 757

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3b, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3b Research 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Misplaced Modifiers 764

Writing 3.B.3b

Ant and Grasshopper The Fox and the Crow The Lion and the Statue by Aesop 765

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a, 4.B.3c Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Phaëthon, Son of Apollo by Olivia E. Coolidge 770

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3b, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Grammar & Style Dangling Modifiers 776

Writing 3.B.3b

Comparing Literature 777 The Instruction of Indra by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers 778

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a

Such Perfection by R.K. Narayan 782

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.C.3b, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3a, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a

Amaterasu by Carolyn Swift 786

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.C.3e Literature 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.A.3a, 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

Aunty Misery by Judith Ortiz Cofer 792

Reading 1.B.3b, 1.B.3c, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.A.3a, 4.B.3a,

4.B.3d Research 5.C.3b

Level II Page 25

Independent Reading The Force of Luck by Rudolfo A. Anaya 796

Reading 1.A.3b, 1.B.3a, 1.B.3d, 1.C.3a Literature 2.A.3b, 2.A.3c, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a, 3.C.3a Speaking and Listening 4.B.3a Research 5.B.3a

How the Snake Got Poison by Zora Neale Hurston 803

Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3b Literature 2.A.3a, 2.A.3d, 2.B.3a Writing 3.B.3a Research 5.B.3a, 5.C.3b

For Your Reading List 805 Reading 1.B.3d, 1.C.3d Literature 2.A.3c

Writing Workshop Expository Writing: Research Report 806


Speaking & Listening Workshop Giving and Actively Listening to Research Presentations 814


Test Practice Workshop Writing Skills: Research Report 816 Revising and Editing Skills 817

Writing 3.A.3, 3.B.3a, 3.B.3b, 3.C.3a

Reading Skills 818 from Why the Owl Has Big Eyes

Reading 1.B.3c, 1.B.3d Literature 2.B.3c

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