English Language Arts Curriculum
7th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will find their own voice in the world, through critical thinking, close reading analysis, comparing, contrasting and presenting through various media sources and fiction/non-fiction text. |
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Students will write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well structured event sequences. |
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Students will defend inferences in nonfiction text by interpreting textual evidence. |
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Students will use grade level books or articles in order to analyze and argue how point of view is conveyed. |
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Students will write informative texts to convey information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. |
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Students will produce an argumentative essay to support their evaluation of theme within a fictional text. |
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Students will analyze the meaning of words and phrases, and how the structure of a drama or poem contributes to its meaning. |
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Students will evaluate differing claims in order to create a media presentation. |
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Students will write an informative/explanatory piece expressing the main idea and defining key words and phrases found in literary nonfiction. |
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Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing the text structure of previously read texts. |
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Students will determine the main idea of informational texts by analyzing text evidence and structure. |
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Students will compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres, and their approaches to similar themes and topics. |