Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year!!!
I look forward to meeting all of you and to having a fantastic year working together. Feel free to contact me anytime, the best way to reach me is by email at dunnm1@northshoreschools.org.
I will be updating this website regularly with announcements and upcoming assignments.
Extra Help will be available on:
Tuesdays from 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. and from 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in Room 97.
Generally speaking our goals for English 7 will to be become stronger readers, writers, and learners. Students will be able to write drafts and revise writing into final drafts in a number of different formal and informal writing assignments. Also, students will be able to read and analyze texts from many genres. Finally, students will be prepared to take the 7th Grade ELA Exam.
In English 7, we will be using 4 thematic units to reach our goals: Social and Cultural Awareness, Power and Authority, Coming of Age, and Truth and Perception. We will be reading the "core" texts listed below, along with a variety of short stories and poetry.
Core Texts
Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793
James Clavell’s The Children’s Story
Robert Cromier’s The Chocolate War
S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders
James Howe’s The Misfits
Gary Paulsen’s Nightjohn
Paul Zindel’s The Pigman