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English Language Arts — Grade 7
Goal 3, Objective 3.01
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- Interdisciplinary Integrated Unit on DNA/Genetics Part C: Language Arts
- The third lesson of an interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on language arts. The first two lessons in the unit focus on science and math.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Marlene Smith, and Tori Goldrick.
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- Where Do Your Possessions Come From?
- Students learn about the Earth's natural resources and the ways that people use these resources. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Products across borders
- In this lesson, students identify foreign products available in the United States and learn about U.S. companies that sell products abroad. The students discuss globalization and illustrate two maps to show where products come from and where they're sold. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Points of view in the news
- Students will read articles from National Geographic News and answer questions describing each article's source, purpose, and viewpoint. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Persuading an audience: Writing effective letters to the editor
- Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper, focusing on a current local or national issue. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 and 10 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- The penny problem
- Students explore possibilities for “phasing out” the penny from the United States money supply. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: National Council on Economic Education
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
- This lesson introduces students to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence and the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi that influenced King's views. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Imagine that! Playing with genre through newspapers and short stories
- Introduce students to one form of expository writing: news briefs and articles. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Geography and your dream job
- Introduces students to the five themes of geography. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Geographic
- Entering history: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Students study the social impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech by reading Nikki Giovanni’s poem “The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.”. Students complete a close reading of the text of King's speech and... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Critical literacy: Point of view
- Students learn to look at texts from different viewpoints. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Campaigning for fair use: Public service announcements on copyright awareness
- In this lesson that introduces issues of fair usage and copyright laws, students create audio public service announcements that can be broadcast over the school's public address system or published as podcasts on the Internet. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Analyzing advice as an introduction to Shakespeare
- Students read and analyze the advice given in Mary Schmich's 1997 Chicago Tribune column “Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young,” as an introduction to studying the advice that Polonius gives to Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE