
7th grade ELA moves fast — new units, new texts, new essay formats, barely enough time to breathe before the next deadline.
Starts Mon, Sep 14
10:00 PM UTC · 1h
4 sessions

Jennifer
4.4
Analyze how authors use tone, mood, diction, and imagery to shape a reader's experience
Identify theme versus main idea and trace how authors develop central ideas across a text
Write structured, purposeful paragraphs with strong topic sentences, textual evidence, and effective transitions
Craft and revise narrative, expository, and persuasive pieces — each with genre-specific techniques and organization strategies
Summarize and paraphrase texts accurately without plagiarizing, and properly cite sources including AI-generated content
Use context clues, text structure, and active reading strategies to tackle challenging fiction and nonfiction passages
Apply figurative language, symbolism, and poetic devices when reading and writing across genres
Self-edit and respond to peer feedback to strengthen clarity, voice, and impact across multiple drafts

Jennifer Grasse is an innovative educator, tutor, and instructor with over 20 years of experience forming strong educational connections. Known for her energetic facilitation and creative teaching methods, Jennifer has a proven track record of engaging students in both virtual and in‑person settings. Whether she’s leveraging her decades of SAT/ACT experience to help students conquer high-stakes tests or leading creative pursuits in writing and public speaking, she excels at designing interactive lessons that blend performance with academic rigor, inspiring learners to achieve their full potential.
7th grade ELA moves fast — new units, new texts, new essay formats, barely enough time to breathe before the next deadline. Building Blocks of 7th Grade Reading & Writing is the year-round edge that keeps driven students from just passing skills and actually owning them. This supplemental class runs alongside your regular coursework, deepening mastery of the foundational reading and writing skills — analyzing text, writing with purpose, understanding tone and theme — that your future English classes and standardized tests will demand. Students work through literary analysis, all three major writing genres, paragraph structure, and the craft of revision in a small-group live setting where real practice happens. The students who thrive in 8th and 9th grade ELA aren't the ones who simply turned in every assignment — they're the ones who truly internalized the skills. This is where that happens.
Live Q&A
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Recordings
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Materials
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