Welcome to the Seventh Grade Literature page. Here, you will find links to templates and other documents we will be using in class, as well as to resource pages for books we will be reading together. You will be contributing to these pages during the year. Take a look at the Roll of Thunder resource page which I began this summer by clicking on its button on the side menu. This will be the first novel we read together.

Book Discussion and WebBoard
We will be discussing our reading face to face in class as well as online using WebBoard, which you will be introduced to during our first week together. Mr. Newton's class at Twinfield is also reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and we will be discussing the book on WebBoard with them. To access WebBoard, click on its button on the side menu.

Journals
I will also provide you with a journal in which you will respond once or twice weekly to a choice of prompts. We will use the journal regularly in class.

Weekly Schedule and Due Dates
I will do my best to post the weekly schedule online, along with due dates for larger projects well ahead of time. Click on the schedule button to see what we will be doing the first week. This is subject to change depending on start of year trips and events.

Reading Logs and Reading Record Sheets
You will be keeping track of your required reading and your choice reading on a reading log that is very similar to what you used last year. Here is where you will log the books as you finish them. Books read over the summer will count, as long as you have either documented them in a letter to one of your Middle School teachers, or do so in a journal entry submitted to me within the first week of school.
You will also keep track of your nightly reading on a reading record sheet which may be familiar to you as well. You will find both forms on the side menu of this page.

Response to Literature Essays
This fall and again in the spring, you will be writing a response to literature for your writing portfolio. We will be focusing a great deal on the authors' craft this year, and your responses may reflect this.

I am looking very forward to having each of you in class this year!

For the next month and a half, while we are reading Roll of Thunder, we will be learning about the time in which it took place. Each of you will be part of a group whose goal it is to teach the rest of us more about one of the following: Jim Crow laws and etiquette, the Ku Klux Klan, or the Great Depression.

First Assignment
Read through the contents of the Roll of Thunder resource page. (Click on the Roll of Thunder button on the side menu on this page.) Look closely at the two photographs from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection and complete the assignment posted beneath them.