Hopewell Area SD Moving to Remote Instruction on Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Due to continued road closures taking place throughout the Hopewell Area School District overnight which will not be cleared prior to morning bus runs, the Hopewell Area School District will move to remote instruction on Wednesday, April 30. No district transportation will take place on Wednesday.

The district realizes that power and Internet are not yet functioning in many district locations. However, at this time, Duquesne Light is reporting that power should be restored sometime overnight. So, it is our intention to operate school as a flexible instruction day on Wednesday, April 30. Should that mode need to change to a complete closure due to widespread Internet access issues, then another email will be sent with that update by 8AM.

Should anyone not have direct access to FID packets or be able to join classes virtually, students will be provided with adequate time to complete and turn in work as needed. Please communicate with teachers and principals as needed if your student has any issues.

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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.