ELA Curriculum

What are the non-negotiables?  What skills are required for incoming 7th graders? 

• Students need to be able to write simple sentences with correct punctuation.

• Students can identify basic parts of speech. (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns)

• Students can indent and use proper paragraphing. 

• Students need to identify text evidence that supports a multiple choice answer.

• Students need to be able to write a response in complete sentences that rephrases part of the question in their response.

• Students should be able to support a claim/argument with logical reasoning. 

• Students should be familiar with figurative language terms (simile, personification, metaphor, etc.)

• Students need to be able to capitalize: the first word in a sentence, proper nouns, and I.

1st Quarter

Learning Target/Common Core Standard:

I can identify textual evidence and explain how it supports my answer. (RL.7.1)

I can describe how the theme I selected applies to the story. (RL.7.2) 

I can analyze how one element of a story affects another element in the story. (RL.7.3)

I can analyze the meaning of a word using context clues/prior knowledge. (RL.7.4)

I can predict how a specific paragraph/section will impact the meaning of a story. (RL.7.5)

I can compare and contrast two different character's point of view. (RL.7.6)

Short Stories that we will read to cover the above standards:

• “Rikki-Tikki Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling

• “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber

• “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe

• “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

• “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

• “One Summer Night” by Ambrose Bierce

Informational Text:

Achieve 3000 online reading program-Students are required to read 2 articles, and score a 75% or higher on the 2 articles, each week. These will count for a reading classwork grade.

2nd Quarter

Learning Target/Common Core Standard

I can cite several pieces of textual evidence and explain how it supports my answer. (RI.7.1)

I can determine two or more central ideas in a text. (RI.7.2)

I can provide an object summary of the text. (RI.7.2)

I can analyze how idea influence individuals or events. (RI.7.3)

I can analyze how individuals influence ideas or events. (RI.7.3) 

I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. (RI.7.4)

I can determine an author’s purpose in a text. (RI.7.6)

I can evaluate specific claims in a text and whether the reasoning of claims is sound. (RI.7.8) 

I can compare and contract a fictional account of a setting to a historical account of the same setting. (RL.7.9)

Novel:

• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Informational Text:

Achieve 3000 articles-online reading program-Students are required to read 2 articles, and score a 75% or higher on the 2 articles, each week. These will count for a reading classwork grade.

3rd Quarter

Learning Target/Common Core Standard:

I can analyze how major sections contribute to the whole of the text and develop major ideas. (RI.7.5)

I can compare and contrast a text to a multimedia version and analyze the differences between the two mediums. (RI.7.7)

I can compare and contrast how multiple authors interpret facts differently when presenting information on the same topic. (RI.7.9)

Review of Literature Standards covered in previous quarters. 

Short Stories used to cover standards:

• “Dark they Were, and Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury

• “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault

• “The Three Little Pigs” by Joseph Jacobs

• “Little Red Riding Hood” by The Brothers Grimm

• “Snow White” by The Brothers Grimm

• "Icarus and Daedalus" by Josephine Preston Peabody

• "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling

• "How to Ignore a House on Fire" by Nia Boulware

• "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl

Informational Texts:

Achieve 3000-online reading program-Students are required to read 2 articles, and score a 75% or higher on the 2 articles, each week. These will count for a reading classwork grade.

Teacher selected articles

4th Quarter

Learning Target/Common Core Standard:

All Writing and Reading Literature standards are reviewed and covered through instruction using a novel, yet to be determined(but most likely will be Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie).

I can read and comprehend literature in grades 6-8 text complexity. (RL.7.10)

I can read and comprehend literary nonfiction in grades 6-8 text complexity. (RI.7.10)

I can differentiate between certain homophones. (ex./ their, there, they’re)

I can use context clues to help determine the meaning of a given word. 

I can use reference materials to clarify the precise meaning of a word. 

Informational Texts:

Achieve 3000-online reading program-Students are required to read 2 articles, and score a 75% or higher on the 2 articles, each week. These will count for a reading classwork grade.

Teacher selected articles