Hopewell Area SD: Remote Instruction on Thursday, May 1, 2025

Due to ongoing storm restoration efforts in the community and at district schools, the Hopewell Area School District will operate all schools under a Flexible Instruction Day (FID) model with students learning remotely from home on Thursday, May 1, 2025. There will be no district transportation provided, and after-school and evening activities will take place as scheduled.

The district truly understands that some students may have varying needs associated with power outages or Internet loss, so please communicate needs with teachers and principals. They will be willing to assist as needed. With an in-service day and prom happening on Friday (May 2), students will next return to school on Monday, May 5. So, the extra day in remote learning will yield multiple days of recovery efforts to, hopefully, return all students to regular in-person schooling on Monday, May 5.

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Academic Language Arts 7

Units of Study:

Essay Writing: Preparation for PSSA timed-writing in all three modes: argumentative, narrative, expository. Students will use a specific and clear thesis and support it with reasons and textual evidence.

Novel Study: They Had a Dream by Jules Archer. PSSA open-ended response, vocabulary, non-fiction analysis.

Novel Study: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. PSSA open-ended response, vocabulary, applying reading strategies, plot elements, and figurative language.

Civil Rights Project: Students will research a topic from the Civil Rights timeline, write a summary of their findings and create a website complete with pictures and text to illustrate what they learned.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots: A Study of Word Families I.
Community Contribution Project/Speech: Students will write an informative essay on one thing in which they excel. Then, they will find a person in their community who has become successful in that field. Students will give a short speech utilizing media to demonstrate what they learned.

Short Stories and Plays: Students will read and analyze a collection of short stories and the play, A Christmas Carol.

Poetry Unit: Students will analyze a series of poems by professional and student poets. Students will also write their own poetry using form, figurative language, and other poetic devices.

Grammar Study: Analysis of proper sentence construction, types of sentence structures, sentence combining, parts of speech, run-on, fragments, agreement, and punctuation.