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Storm is an alternative to Lightning Literature Grade 7. It came about from customer feedback and is now more user-friendly for students and parents alike. The course covers grammar, punctuation, composition, and literary analysis* using a 4-day schedule. It requires the Teacher’s Guide, two Student Workbooks, a specific reader for the course called The Rainy Day Reader, and the literature.
The name change is in response to students this age being sensitive to grade levels. This course is meant to follow Grade 6.
The Teacher’s Guide (TG) lays out lessons for you very clearly. The focus will be on reading and composition and your student has much of the lesson in their books to guide the independent learner. Answers are provided when relevant, otherwise you have suggestions for providing productive feedback. There is a lot of discussion material here. It would be great for a group setting, but you can be the soundboard for your student as well with suggestions from the TG. Adaptations are constantly given to tailor the program to your learners needs. Only 1 week is spent on sentence diagramming. 402 pages.
Student Workbook 1 and 2 are for each semester. These are consumable, but the student will also be writing outside of the workbook. Students will appreciate the added color! Also, there is more writing instruction in the student books than in the previous Grade 7. The grammar and punctuation lessons are between story lessons and incorporate literature as well.
Required Literature selections include 6 novels: Prairie Lotus, The Hobbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Elijah of Buxton, A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, and All Creatures Great and Small. You will also need The Rainy Day Reader (see below). While some of the titles include heavy content like racism and the Holocaust, the selections are meant to make kids this age think and are handled thoughtfully. You see a balance of male/female perspectives and a range of cultural viewpoints, voices, and genres.
The Rainy Day Reader was created just for this course. It includes short stories and poems selected by the author. This is included in the literature package and the complete package.
*If your student is in need of spelling practice, you will have to add a supplemental option.