7^th Grade ELA Syllabus

Week 1 – Simple Effective Sentences

Week 2 – Conjunctive Adverbs, Commas, Verbs,

Week 3 – Narrative Portfolio #1

Week 4 – Effective Complex Sentences, Capitalization

Week 5 – CBA #1 Common College Application Portfolio

Week 6 – Common College Application Portfolio #2

Week 7 – Expository Essay Portfolio #3

Week 8 – Expository – Introduction and Controlling Idea

Week 9 – Publishing Expository Essay

Week 10 – Transitional Words

Week 11 – Phrases and Clauses – Prepositional Phrases

Week 12 – Using Verbs Progressive and Perfect Tenses

Week 13 – Dialogue / Phrases and Clauses - Participles

Week 14 – Finish Dialogue – Appositive Phrases

Week 15 – Review Sentences, Parts of Speech,                    Punctuation Marks and Dictionary Skills

Week 16 – Portfolio #4 - Expository

Week 17 – Appositives, Sentence Structure, Common               Misspelled Words

Week 18 – Semicolons and Colons

Week 19 – Revising and Editing / Conjunctive Adverbs

Week 20 – Conjunctions

Week 21 – Grabber Introductions and Perfect Endings:         Conclusions

Week 22 – Capitalization / Dictionary Skills

Week 23 – Exposition: Expository Essay

Week 24 – Revising and Editing

Week 25 – Exposition: Cause and Effect Essay + Thesis

Week 26 – Nouns and Pronouns

Week 27 – Phrases and Clauses

Week 28 – Phrases and Clauses Continued

Week 29 – Novel Unit

Week 30 – Continue Novel Unit

Week 31 – Portfolio #5

Week 32 – Portfolio #5

Week 33 – Writing Process Portfolio Checklist

Week 34 – Portfolios Organization Week

Week 35 – Grammar Usage and Mechanics

Week 36 – Finish Portfolios

Week 37 – Final Exams Week