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 and contrasting while presenting through various media sources and fiction/non-fiction text. |
Outcomes and Components:
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LA.7.3 |
Students will use grade level books or articles in order to analyze and argue how point of view is conveyed. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Standard(s) |
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LA.7.3.1 |
Write arguments and support claim(s) with relevant evidence, acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. |
7.W.1.a 7.W.1.b |
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LA.7.3.2 |
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
7.W.4 |
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LA.7.3.3 |
Address purpose and audience within writing by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting as needed. |
7.W.5 |
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LA.7.3.4 |
Utilize technology to produce and publish writing; link to and cite sources; interact and collaborate with others. |
7.W.6 |
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LA.7.3.5 |
Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. |
7.W.9b |
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LA.7.3.6 |
Read and evaluate grade level books or articles to determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. |
7.RI.6 7.RI.10 |
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LA.7.3.7 |
Analyze how authors writing about the same topic emphasize different evidence or advance different interpretations; evaluate the strength of each argument and assess the validity of each. |
7.RI.8 7.RI.9 |
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LA.7.3.8 |
Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. |
7.L.1b |
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