2022-2023 Syllabus

The below chart is a working document of this year’s class units, and is subject to change.

Ms. Timmon’s 7th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies

Social Studies

Reading

Writing

QUARTER 1

  • First Humans
  • Egypt
  • West Africa
  • Current Events (2 per quarter)

 

  • Reading Logs with choice books (at home) Every other week (total of 4 reading logs)

  • Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton 
  • Narrative writing into class anthology
  • Bernstein Unit with guest artist Laura Lee Gulledge October 3-7

QUARTER 2

  • Sumer
  • Mesopotamia
  • Judaism
  • Islam

 

  • I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (Flipbook assignment)
  • Biography Research Project 

QUARTER 3

  • India
  • China
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism

 

  • Novel Projects (at home) and Novel Project Open House
  • Argumentative Writing and Speech

QUARTER 4

  • Greece
  • Rome
  • Christianity
  • Middle Ages
  • Renaissance
  • Reformation

 

  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

 

  • Figurative Language and Poetry Writing
 
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