Curriculum Pacing Guide
Grading Period
Grade/Course 7
Time Frame
Week 1
(Aug. 1014)
Week 2
(Aug. 1721)
Week 3
(Aug 24 28)
Unit/SOLs
Introduction to LA and students; class
affirmations activity
Group project on summer reading
(PowerPoint presentation)
Journal entry on summer experiences
Visit to library/assign library cards (8/11)
Fluency tests
Group project presentations
Begin Tuck Everlasting
Think-Pair-Share: Immortality
Tuck Everlasting Prologue and Chapters 1-7
Background knowledge: the legend of the
Fountain of Youth and other tales
Tuck Everlasting vocabulary
Author biography: Questioning the Author
Writing activity
Journal entries
Grammar instruction: Punctuation
Continue Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting Chapters 8-16
Tuck Everlasting vocabulary
Intertextual activity: “Fable”
Graphic organizer activity: Tuck Everlasting
and “Fable”
Journal entries
Grammar instruction: Run-on sentences
SCOS
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1.02
1.03
1.01
Strand
1st Nine Weeks
Resources
Computers
Assessments
Journals
Summer Reading
Project rubric
Journal rubric
Journals
Journal rubric
1.03
5.01
5.01
6.01
4.01
1.02
1.02
6.01
5.01
6.01
1.02
1.02
1.03
1.02
6.01
Tuck Everlasting
Prologue, Chapters 17 Assessment
Journals
Journal rubric
Tuck Everlasting
Week 4
(Aug 31 –
Sept 4)
Week 5
(Sept 7 H)
(Sept 8 –
11)
Continue Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting Chapters 17-23
Tuck Everlasting vocabulary
Literary elements activity: Similes/Metaphors
Intertextual activity: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Graphic organizer activity: Tuck Everlasting
and Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Journal entries
Grammar instruction: Clauses
Continue Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting Chapters 24-25 and Epilogue
Tuck Everlasting vocabulary
Intertextual activity: The Giving Tree
Graphic organizer activity
Journal entries
Grammar instruction: Sentence Fragments
Chapters 8-16
Assessment
5.01
6.01
5.01
1.02
1.02
1.02
1.02
6.01
5.01
6.01
1.02
1.02
1.02
6.01
Journals
Journal rubric
Tuck Everlasting
Chapters 17-23
Assessment
Journals
Journal rubric
Tuck Everlasting
Chapters 24-25,
Epilogue Assessment
Week 6
(Sept 17 ½
H)
(Sept 14 –
18)
Constitution Day (Sept. 17)
Film clip (The Patriot) and RAFT journal entry
Bill of Rights discussion and group activity
(summarizing)
Town Hall Walls
Reading of Revolutionary period
expressive/informational/argumentative
works:
The Declaration of Independence
Preamble to the Constitution
1.02
2.01,
2.02,
1.03
5.01,
3.01
Common Sense
“Rip Van Winkle”
Grammar instruction: Sentence Fragments
Field trip to Historic Halifax
6.01
Journals
Giant notepaper
Markers
Copies of Bill of Rights
Journal rubric
Week 7
(Sept 2125)
Week 8
(Sept 28 –
Oct 2)
Week 9
(Oct 5 – 9)
Finish Tuck Everlasting
Intertextual activity: The Giving Tree / “The
Weaver of Tomorrow”
Graphic organizer activity
Questioning the Author activity: Theme
Tuck Everlasting film presentation
Journal entries
Grammar instruction: Effective Sentences
Tuck Everlasting
Introduction to argumentative essays and the
writing process
Tuck Everlasting final essay:
P – plan
O – outline
W – write rough draft
Tuck Everlasting essay continued
E – edit (self and peer editing)
R – revise
Proofreading symbols introduction
Student-teacher writing conferences
Tuck Everlasting essay final draft due Fri.,
Oct. 9
1.02
5.01
1.02
6.01
Tuck Everlasting final
essay rubric
3.03,
6.01,
6.02
3.03
6.01
6.02
1.03
Tuck Everlasting final
essay rubric