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.7.5 |
Students will produce an argumentative essay to support their evaluation of theme within a fictional text. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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Component |
Standard(s) |
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LA.7.5.1 |
Provide several pieces of text evidence to support analysis of text, including inferences and determine how theme and the central idea develops; provide objective summary. |
7.RL.1 7.RL.2 |
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LA.7.5.2 |
Write arguments and support claim(s) with relevant evidence, acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. Provide a conclusion that supports the argument. |
7.W.1a 7.W.1b 7.W.1e |
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LA.7.5.3 |
Prioritize words, phrases, and clauses that create cohesion, clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence, and maintain a formal style and tone. |
7.W.1c 7.W.1d |
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LA.7.5.4 |
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.7.5.5 |
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. |
7.W.5 |
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LA.7.5.6 |
Utilize technology to produce and publish arguments. |
7.W.6 |
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LA.7.5.7 |
Ask questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed. |
7.SL.1c |
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LA.7.5.8 |
Analyze and clarify main ideas in diverse media by evaluating the soundness of the reasoning, relevance, and sufficiency of evidence. |
7.SL.2 7.SL.3 |
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LA.7.5.9 |
Craft sentences where a comma separates coordinate adjectives. |
7.L.2a |
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Academic Vocabulary: theme, claims/evidence, tone, brochure |
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Content Vocabulary: utopia, dystopia |