English Language Arts Curriculum

7th Grade

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:

LA.7.3

Students will use grade level books or articles in order to analyze and argue how point of view is conveyed.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

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

 

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

 

LA.7.3.3

Address purpose and audience within writing by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting as needed. 

7.W.5

 

LA.7.3.4

Utilize technology to produce and publish writing; link to and cite sources; interact and collaborate with others.

7.W.6

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

LA.7.3.8

Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.

7.L.1b

Academic Vocabulary: counterclaim

Content Vocabulary: