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Unit 1: Facing Challenges “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas | Lexile: 760
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“Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas | Lexile: 890 “The Walk” by Thomas Hardy | Lexile: N/A “A Prayer” by Frank Dempster Sherman | Lexile: N/A “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes | Lexile: 850 “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling | Lexile: 970 “British Rule in India” | Lexile: 925-1185
Unit 2: Courage and Confidence “Frederick Douglass Freedom’s Voice” | Lexile: 925-1185 from Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry Lexile: 1000 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Lexile: 925-1185 “The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by José Sanchez | Lexile: 860 from Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong Lexile: 1040 “Tending Sir Ernest’s Legacy: An Interview with Alexandra Shackleton” by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
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Unit 3: Influencing Others “Vanishing Natural Wonders” | Lexile 970 “Saving Water: Why Save Something That Covers Two-thirds of the Earth?” by Majorie Lamb | Lexile: 1040 “A World of Water” by Carly Schuna | Lexile: 1080 Barbara Jordan: 1976 Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention Lexile: 925-1185 “All Together Now” by Barbara Jordan | Lexile: 920 “Barbara Jordan: A Message of Hope” | Lexile: 720
Unit 4: Honor and Pride “Song of Myself” | Lexile: N/A “O’Captain! My Captain!” | Lexile: N/A “Adieu to a Soldier” | Lexile: N/A “Beat! Beat! Drums” by Walt Whitman | Lexile: N/A “Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing” by Kyle Mathers | Lexile: 900 “The Drummer Boy” | Lexile: 925-1185 “The Drumbeat of Freedom” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lexile: N/A
ELA GRADE 7
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Unit 5: Science Matters “Killer Bugs” | Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
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“Fighting the Flu” | Lexile: 1100 “Viruses” | Lexile: 850 “Louis Pasteur: Medical Wonder Worker” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Gregor Mendel” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Human Genome Project” | Lexile: 950
Unit 6: Life Experiences “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Lexile: 1080 “A Crush” by Cynthia Rylant | Lexile: 1190 “Crossing the Creek” | Lexile: 925-1185 “What ‘Mental Retardation’ Means” from KidsHealth® | Lexile: 925-1185
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Selections
“Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas | Lexile: 890 “The Walk” by Thomas Hardy | Lexile: N/A “A Prayer” by Frank Dempster Sherman | Lexile: N/A “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes | Lexile: 850 “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling | Lexile: 970 “British Rule in India” | Lexile: 925-1185
Unit 2: Courage and Confidence “Frederick Douglass Freedom’s Voice” | Lexile: 925-1185 from Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry Lexile: 1000 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Lexile: 925-1185 “The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by José Sanchez | Lexile: 860 from Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong Lexile: 1040 “Tending Sir Ernest’s Legacy: An Interview with Alexandra Shackleton” by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
with Lexile Levels
Unit 3: Influencing Others “Vanishing Natural Wonders” | Lexile 970 “Saving Water: Why Save Something That Covers Two-thirds of the Earth?” by Majorie Lamb | Lexile: 1040 “A World of Water” by Carly Schuna | Lexile: 1080 Barbara Jordan: 1976 Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention Lexile: 925-1185 “All Together Now” by Barbara Jordan | Lexile: 920 “Barbara Jordan: A Message of Hope” | Lexile: 720
Unit 4: Honor and Pride “Song of Myself” | Lexile: N/A “O’Captain! My Captain!” | Lexile: N/A “Adieu to a Soldier” | Lexile: N/A “Beat! Beat! Drums” by Walt Whitman | Lexile: N/A “Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing” by Kyle Mathers | Lexile: 900 “The Drummer Boy” | Lexile: 925-1185 “The Drumbeat of Freedom” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Lexile: N/A
ELA GRADE 7
Selections
with Lexile Levels
Unit 5: Science Matters “Killer Bugs” | Lexile: 925-1185
ELA GRADE 7
Selections
“Fighting the Flu” | Lexile: 1100 “Viruses” | Lexile: 850 “Louis Pasteur: Medical Wonder Worker” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Gregor Mendel” | Lexile: 925-1185 “Human Genome Project” | Lexile: 950
Unit 6: Life Experiences “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens | Lexile: 1080 “A Crush” by Cynthia Rylant | Lexile: 1190 “Crossing the Creek” | Lexile: 925-1185 “What ‘Mental Retardation’ Means” from KidsHealth® | Lexile: 925-1185
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