GLCE's
7th
Grade
Language
Arts
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E A D I N G Word Study
- Students
will…
- R.WS.07.01
Use word
structure, sentence structure, and prediction to aid in decoding and
understanding the meanings of words encountered in context.
- R.WS.07.02
Use
structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis to recognize unfamiliar words
in context (e.g., idioms, analogies, metaphors, similes, knowledge of roots
and affixes, major word chunks/rimes, syllabication).
- R.WS.07.03
Recognize
frequently encountered words automatically (“automatically” should be
defined in the glossary).
- R.WS.07.04
Know the
meaning of frequently encountered words in written and oral contexts
(research to support specific words).
- R.WS.07.05
Apply
strategies to construct meaning and identify unknown words.
- R.WS.07.06
Read
fluently seventh grade level texts (increasingly demanding texts read with
fluency as the year proceeds).
- R.WS.07.07
Use
strategies and authentic content-related resources to determine the meaning
of words and phrases in context (e.g., literary terms, cross-cultural words
and phrases, mathematical expressions, scientific procedures).
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- Narrative
Text
- Students
will…
- R.NT.07.01
Identify
and discuss how the tensions among characters, communities, themes, and
issues in classic and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit are related to their own experiences.
- R.NT.07.02
Analyze
elements and style of narrative genres (e.g., mystery, poetry, memoir,
drama, myths, legends).
- R.NT.07.03
Analyze
the role of antagonists, protagonists, internal and external conflicts, and
abstract themes.
- R.NT.07.04
Analyze
author’s craft (e.g., theme, antagonists, protagonists, over and
understatement, exaggeration).
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- Informational
Text
- Students
will…
- R.IT.07.01
Analyze
elements and style of informational genre (e.g., persuasive essay, research
report, brochure, personal correspondence, autobiography/biography).
- R.IT.07.02
Analyze
organizational patterns (e.g., compare/contrast, cause and effect,
sequence).
- R.IT.07.03
Explain
how authors use writer’s craft and text features to enhance the
understanding of central, key, and supporting ideas (e.g., metaphors,
similes, captions, diagrams, appendices).
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- Comprehension
- Students
will…
- R.CM.07.01
Connect
personal knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world to themes and
perspectives in the text.
- R.CM.07.02
Read,
retell, and summarize grade level appropriate narrative and informational
texts.
- R.CM.07.03
State
global themes, universal truths, and principles within and across texts to
create a deeper understanding.
- R.CM.07.04
Apply
significant knowledge from what has been read in grade level appropriate
science and social studies texts.
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- Metacognition
- Students
will…
- R.MT.07.01
Independently
self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to
- text
by automatically using and discussing the strategies used by mature readers
to
- increase
comprehension and engage in interpretative discussions (e.g., predicting,
constructing
- mental
images representing ideas in text questioning, rereading or listening again
if uncertain about meaning, inferring, summarizing).
- R.MT.07.02
Plan,
monitor, regulate, and evaluate skills, strategies, and processes for their
own reading comprehension by applying appropriate metacognitive skills
(e.g., SQP3R, pattern guides).
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- Critical
Standards
- Students
will…
- R.CS.07.01
Analyze
the appropriateness of shared, individual, and expert standards based on
purpose, context, and audience in order to assess their own work and work of
others.
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- Reading
Attitude
- Students
will…
- R.AT.07.01
Be
enthusiastic about reading and do substantial reading on their own.
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R I T I N G Writing Genres
- Students
will…
- W.GN.07.01
Write a
cohesive narrative piece that includes appropriate conventions to the genre
(e.g., memoir, drama, legend, mystery, poetry, myth) and employ literary and
plot devices (e.g., internal and/or external conflicts,
antagonists/protagonists, personification).
- W.GN.07.02
Write a
research report (e.g., I-search, website, traditional) for an authentic
audience that includes appropriate organizational patterns (e.g., problem
statement and solution, position statement and supporting evidence, compare
and contrast), descriptive language, and text features.
- W.GN.07.03
Formulate
research questions using multiple resources, perspectives, and
arguments/counterarguments to develop a thesis statement that culminates in
a presented, final project.
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- Writing
Process
- Students
will…
- W.PR.07.01
Set a
purpose, consider audience, and replicate authors’ styles and patterns
when writing narrative or informational text.
- W.PR.07.02
Apply a
variety of pre-writing strategies for narrative (e.g., story maps that are
designed to depict roles of antagonist and protagonist, internal and
external conflict) and informational text (e.g., position statement and
supporting evidence, problem statement and solution,, compare/contrast).
- W.PR.07.03
Revise
their writing to reflect different perspectives for multiple purposes.
- W.PR.07.04
Select and
use titles, leads, and endings to achieve a specific purpose for specific
audiences. (revise writing to ensure that content, structure, elements of
style and voice, literary devices, and textual features are consistent).
- W.PR.07.05
Edit their
writing using proofreaders’ checklists both individually and in peer
editing groups.
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- Personal
Style
- Students
will…
- W.PS.07.01
Exhibit
individual style to enhance the written message (e.g., in narrative text:
personification, humor, element of surprise; in informational text:
emotional appeal, strong opinion, credible support).
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- Grammar
and Usage
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the context of their writing, students will…
- W.GR.07.01
Use style
conventions (e.g., MLA) and a variety of grammatical structures in their
writing including participial phrases, adverbial subordinate clauses,
superlative adjectives and adverbs, present/past/future, continuous verb
tenses, parentheses, singular and plural possessive forms, and indefinite
pronouns.
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- Spelling
- Students
will…
- W.SP.07.01
Correctly
spell the derivatives of bases and affixes in the context of their own
writing.
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- Handwriting
- Students’
handwriting will…
- W.HW.07.01
Be legible
in their compositions.
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- Writing
Attitude
- Students
will…
- W.AT.07.01
Be
enthusiastic about writing.
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P E A K I N G Conventions
- Students
will…
- S.CN.07.01
Use
specialized language related to a topic and select words carefully to
achieve precise meaning when presenting.
- S.CN.07.02
Use slang,
dialect, and colloquial language suitably to create interest and drama when
presenting.
- S.CN.07.03
Present
their work in standard American English if it is their first language
(students whose second language is English will present their work in their
developing version of standard American English).
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- Discourse
- Students
will…
- S.DS.07.01
Engage in
interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning (e.g., book
clubs, literature circles. partnerships, or other conversation protocols).
- S.DS.07.02
Discuss
multiple text types in order to anticipate and answer questions, offer
opinions and solutions, and to identify personally with a universal theme.
- S.DS.07.03
Discuss
their written narratives with a variety of literary and plot devices (e.g.,
clearly described setting, sequenced events, complex major and minor
characters, dialogue, suspense, specific narrative actions such as gestures,
movements, and expressions).
- S.DS.07.04
Plan and
deliver a focused, coherent informational presentation that incorporates
persuasive, non-verbal techniques (e.g., modulation of voice, inflection,
tempo, enunciation, eye contact), is organized by a specific text pattern
(e.g., theory and evidence, persuasion, sequence), and provides supporting
details, explanations, and descriptions supportive of the focus of the
presentation and the backgrounds/interests
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the audience.
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I S T E N I N G Conventions & VIEWING
- Students
will…
- L.CN.07.01
Distinguish
facts from opinions and question their validity during speeches and
presentations delivered by peers.
- L.CN.07.02
Demonstrate
the appropriate social skills of audience behavior (e.g., eye contact, quiet
and still, attentive, supportive) during speeches and presentations.
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- Response
- Students
will…
- L.RP.07.01
Identify,
state, and react to a speaker’s point of view and bias.
- L.RP.07.02
Respond
thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary texts recognized for quality
and literary merit.
- L.RP.07.03
Identify a
speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
- L.RP.07.04
Ask
probing questions of speakers, focusing on claims and conclusions presented.
- L.RP.07.05
Respond to
multiple texts when listened to or viewed by speaking, illustrating, and/or
writing in order to anticipate and answer questions, to determine personal
and universal themes, and to offer opinions or solutions.
- L.RP.07.06
Evaluate
the credibility of a speaker by determining whether the speaker’s point of
view is biased or not.
- L.RP.07.07
Identify
persuasive and propaganda techniques and analyze the effect on the view of
images, text, and sound in the electronic media (e.g., television, movies),
and they will determine if the techniques used achieved their intended
effects.