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.7.9 |
Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing the text structure of previously read texts. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
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LA.7.9.1 |
Write a narrative by establishing context and point of view, organizing events, using dialogue to develop events or characters, including transition words to signal time shifts, utilizing precise words and phrases to capture action, and sensory words to convey experiences. Provide a conclusion that reflects on narrated events. |
7.W.3a 7.W.3b 7.W.3c 7.W.3d 7.W.3e |
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LA.7.9.2 |
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.7.9.3 |
Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation, applying grade level expectations. |
7.W.7 7.W.9a |
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LA.7.9.4 |
Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences. |
7.L.1a |
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LA.7.9.5 |
Create simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. |
7.L.1b |
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