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Grade 7

• Strand 1

  • 7.1.A
  • 7.1.B
  • 7.1.C
  • 7.1.D

• Strand 2

  • 7.2.A
  • 7.2.B
  • 7.2.C

• Strand 3

  • 7.3

• Strand 4

  • 7.4

• Strand 5

  • 7.5.A
  • 7.5.B
  • 7.5.C
  • 7.5.D
  • 7.5.E
  • 7.5.F
  • 7.5.G
  • 7.5.H
  • 7.5.I

• Strand 6

  • 7.6.A
  • 7.6.B
  • 7.6.C
  • 7.6.D
  • 7.6.E
  • 7.6.F
  • 7.6.G
  • 7.6.H
  • 7.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 7.7.A
  • 7.7.B
  • 7.7.C
  • 7.7.D

• Strand 8

  • 7.8.A
  • 7.8.B
  • 7.8.C
  • 7.8.D
  • 7.8.D.i
  • 7.8.D.ii
  • 7.8.D.iii
  • 7.8.E
  • 7.8.E.i
  • 7.8.E.ii
  • 7.8.E.iii
  • 7.8.F

• Strand 9

  • 7.9.A
  • 7.9.B
  • 7.9.C
  • 7.9.D
  • 7.9.E
  • 7.9.F
  • 7.9.G

• Strand 10

  • 7.10.A
  • 7.10.B
  • 7.10.B.i
  • 7.10.B.ii
  • 7.10.C
  • 7.10.D
  • 7.10.D.i
  • 7.10.D.ii
  • 7.10.D.iii
  • 7.10.D.iv
  • 7.10.D.v
  • 7.10.D.vi
  • 7.10.D.vii
  • 7.10.D.viii
  • 7.10.D.ix
  • 7.10.E

• Strand 11

  • 7.11.A
  • 7.11.B
  • 7.11.C
  • 7.11.D

• Strand 12

  • 7.12.A
  • 7.12.B
  • 7.12.C
  • 7.12.D
  • 7.12.E
  • 7.12.F
  • 7.12.G
  • 7.12.H
  • 7.12.H.i
  • 7.12.H.ii
  • 7.12.I
  • 7.12.J

TEKS ELA Standard: 7.10.B.ii

developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples

Two Animals Switch Biomes

What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?

Holiday Shuffle – Day vs Date

Wouldn’t some holidays be better on a certain day of the week? Should Thanksgiving have a set date?

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

Let’s take a starting phrase about St. Patrick’s Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Emoji Stories 🦁

Students will create a story about 🦁👑🐗🎶🌄

Emoji Stories 🛥️

Students will write a story about 🛥️🏊🌊🐙🤝 .

Bobbing for Apples

What is bobbing for apples like… for an apple?

Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle

Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli

Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.

Super Specific Similes: Loud Class

Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed

Students will make this simile about stinky seaweed super specific.

What If… Unreliable Water?

What would the consequences be if a town’s tap water became… unreliable?

What If… Long Life?

What would the consequences be if all people lived much, much longer?

What If… No Sleep?

What would the consequences be if no one had to sleep anymore?

Thanksgiving Photo Writing

Starting with an old-timey photo, students will write from a particular item’s point of view.

Discussing An Important Decision from History

How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Charge of the Light Brigade – Chess Variant

What if one side played with THREE QUEENS and the other had SEVEN KNIGHTS!? What if?

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

New Uses for a Paperclip

So what are some new ways to use a paperclip?

Writing A Thanksgiving Letter

What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?

SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

Student Introductions with Complexity and Frames

Students will introduce themselves by showing how they’ve changed over time.

Student Introductions With Depth and Frames

Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!

The Resiliency Tournament

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Using Creativity Tools To Develop A Learning Exploration: Step One

Kathryn Haydon begins a series on how to design an independent learning exploration.

Create A Civilization Introduction

Combine social studies, science, and language arts in this year-long creative project!

Educational Valentines

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!

Create A Creature

Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.