Bonnie Ball

7th Grade ELA

 

Email: bonnie.ball@newportgrammar.org

 

Phone:

423-623-3811, ext. 243

 

ASPEN LOG IN INFORMATION WILL BE SENT HOME AUGUST 2025.

 

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IMPORTANT INFO

FOR 7TH GRADE

 

7TH GRADE STUDENTS MUST HAVE PROOF OF THESE IMMUNIZATIONS BEFORE THEY CAN BE ENROLLED:

  • TETANUS-DIPTHERIA-PERTUSSIS BOODTER (Tdap)
  • VERIFICATION OF IMMUNITY TO VARICELLS (2 doses or history of the disease)

 

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          2025-2026 HOMEROOM

 

REGISTRATION: WED., AUG. 6, 2025

DROP IN BETWEEN 8:00 & 10:00 AM

 

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7TH GRADE SUPPLY LIST 2025-2026


SANDY ADAMS

 

FOR MATH CLASS:

2 (SEWN/NOT SPIRAL)

 COMPOSITION BOOKS

SCOTCH TAPE


BONNIE BALL

 

FOR HOMEROOM

SMALL, INEXPENSIVE EARBUDS

KLEENEX

CLEANING WIPES

ZIPLOC BAGGIES

(GIRLS: QUART & BOYS: GALLON)

 

FOR ELA CLASS:

1 PACK OF COLORED COPY PAPER

1 PACK OF NOTEBOOK PAPER


KYLIE COFFEY

 

FOR HOMEROOM

CLEANING WIPES

ZIPLOC BAGGIES

KLEENEX

 

FOR SCIENCE

COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK

1 PACK OF NOTEBOOK PAPER

PENCILS


SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER

FOR HOMEROOM

 

ZIPLOC BAGGIES

(GIRLS: QUART & BOYS: GALLON)

COPY PAPER

 

FOR WORLD HISTORY

3 RING BINDER

1 PACK OF DIVIDERS

RULER

NOTEBOOK PAPER

 

 


 


 

7TH GRADE ELA MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS


Short Stories

Novels

Poetry


  • The Dinner Party


  • Thank You, M’am


  • The Lady or the Tiger


  • The Lottery


  • Button, Button


  • The Necklace


  • The Monkey’s Paw


  • Lamb to the Slaughter

Drama:


  • Monsters Due on Maple Street


  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond


  • Murder on the Orient Express

        Speeches:


  • Gettysburg Address


  • I Have a Dream


  • JFK Inaugural Address


  • RFK Announces MLK’s Death


  • A Day In Infamy


  • Churchill’s We Shall Fight


  • Here’s to the Kids


  • Mother to Son


  • Because I Could Not Stop For Death


  • Death Be Not Proud


  • Do Not Go Gently


  • The Highwayman


  • In Vain


  • If


  • L’Envoi


  • Diana


  • Caged Bird


  • Rise

 

SCHOOLinSITES

 7th Grade Summer Reading Program

 

There are two Options: CommonLit

and Traditional Book List

 

CHOOSE EITHER OPTION.

 

Option 1 (Traditional Book List)

Students who do not have Internet access may choose 2 books from the list below. For each book, write a 1 page review of the book including a summary, what you liked and disliked, and if you would recommend the book to a friend. 

 

Summer Reading Book List

Any book by the following authors: 

Louisa May Alcott, Rick Riordan, J.R.R Tolkien

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Upstairs Room by Joanna Reiss

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

The Cat Ate my Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

 

These assignments should be turned in on MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025.

 

Option 2 (Online Assignments through CommonLit.com)

 

The CommonLit assignments are divided into 3 genres:

Fiction--Nonfiction--Poetry

There are 3 texts per genre.

You must complete 2 assignments from each genre.

You should complete the Assessment Questions 

for each text you choose. 

 

You must earn a minimum average of 75 for your work.

By the end of May, I will have created a Summer Reading Class on CommonLit.

You can join the class and work at your own pace.

 

COMMONLIT CLASS CODE FOR SUMMER READING: 96MAN3TS

 

If you have any questions, email me at bonnie.ball@newportgrammar.org

 

All CommonLit assignments are due by SUN.,AUGUST 10, 2025– MIDNIGHT

 

REWARDS FOR COMPLETING SUMMER READING PROGRAM:

1 ELA FREE 100, 1 FREE AR PASS & A FIELD TRIP (pending board approval)