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.7.4 |
Students will write informative texts to convey information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Standard(s) |
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LA.7.4.1 |
Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information. |
7.W.2a |
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LA.7.4.2 |
Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples, and utilize appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. |
7.W.2b 7.W.2c |
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LA.7.4.3 |
Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. |
7.W.7 |
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LA.7.4.4 |
Construct sentences where commas separate coordinate adjectives. |
7.L.2a |
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LA.7.4.5 |
Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy. |
7.L.3a |
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LA.7.4.6 |
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, identifying and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. |
7.L.1c |
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