2024 - 2025 Class 7 Language Arts

The seventh grade student is "interested in individualizing what they say, finding their own voice and style and also being able to hide behind the mask of language so as not to reveal their own inner feelings." Martin Rawson & Tobias Richter, The Educational Tasks and Content of the Steiner Waldorf Curriculum

In Class 7 language arts we encourage the students to reveal their own personal interests and their sense of personality.

The key grammar concepts that will be covered are:

• types of sentences and word positioning

• parts of speech

• sentence analysis

• phrases

• clauses

• verbs

• nouns

• adjectives

• adverbs

• pronouns

• antecedents

• prepositions

• conjunctions

• punctuation

• fragmented sentences & improper shifts

The themes that we will work with to draw out our inspiration are:

• Stories from the Renaissance and the age of discovery

• Subject matter that the class/teacher decides on based on their own interests/The

  Second Mrs Gioconda, by E.L Konigsburg

• Text selections by the teacher e.g. from the works of Lewis Carol/Arthur Conan

  Doyle/O’Henry/’The King’s Fifth’; by Scott O’Dell

Students in Class 7 language arts will practice the following reading and writing skills:

• essay writing

• development of personal style and word usage

• writing non-fiction, such as for different audiences and purposes

• weekly individual spelling targets

• formal writing techniques

Lotus & Ivy language arts classes will consist of up to an hour’s homework exercise each week. The goal is to provide opportunities for the children to experience what they are learning regularly. There will be a weekly assignment given the week before - to prepare for the Tuesday lesson. It is essential that the students arrive prepared for the lesson, having done the preparation work before.

To read more about the developmental stage of the 13-year-old and about our Class 7 main lessons, click here.