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Example ELA 6th Grade Course
The Grade 6 Core ELA course opens the middle school journey by anchoring students in the study of Self — how individuals understand their own identity through the stories they carry. Students examine how narrative craft connects readers to lived experience, how mentorship shapes who we become, and how elevating overlooked voices can reframe what we think we know.This course sets the foundation for the three-year thematic arc: Self → Belonging → Systems. Students build close-reading skills, learn to write with intentionality, and practice the habits of thought that will carry them through 7th and 8th grade.
Unit 1: Voice, Self, & Agency — Warbreaker
Unit 2: Curiosity & Discovery — Isles of the Emberdark
Unit 3: Hidden Worlds & Unlikely Partners — Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Unit 4: Myths, Monsters, and Modern Stories — Tress of the Emerald Sea
Example ELA 7th Grade Course
The Grade 7 Core ELA course deepens the middle school arc by shifting the lens outward from Self to Belonging. Students are asked to step beyond their own experience and witness the lives, histories, and struggles of others — building the empathy and critical awareness that sustain genuine community.Building on the narrative and argumentative groundwork from 6th grade, students now grapple with more complex texts and harder questions: What does it mean to truly belong? Who decides the terms of inclusion? And what is the cost of exclusion?
Unit 1: Belonging & Identity — The Final Empire
Unit 2: Witness, Testimony, and Argument — The Well of Ascension
Unit 3: Dreams and Opportunity — Hero of Ages
Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us — The Alloy of Law
Example ELA 8th Grade Course
The Grade 8 Core ELA course completes the middle school arc by turning the lens toward Systems — the structures, institutions, and forces that shape both individual lives and collective experience. Students develop the tools to see past the surface of any text or situation and ask: who built this, for whom, and at what cost?This course prepares students for the analytical demands of high school ELA, with a heavy emphasis on evidence-based argument, research, and the kind of critical reading that resists easy answers.
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance — The Way of Kings
Unit 2: Power, Propaganda, and the Art of Persuasion — Words of Radiance
Unit 3: Recovery & Reciprocity — Oathbringer
Unit 4: Stories for the Future — Rhythm of War