ELA 7th Grade Literature

Description

• Analyze how actions and events in the plot influence other story elements (e.g., how events shape characters)

• Infer the theme or themes of a literary text and analyze how the theme is developed over the course of the text

• Analyze plot structure and development (e.g., conflict and resolution, rising and falling action, subplots) and determine how events advance the plot, explain previous events, and foreshadow later events

• Draw conclusions about characters, theme, and situations based on analysis of textual details

• Explain the differences between words and phrases with similar denotative meanings that carry different connotations (e.g., sulk/brood; ally/comrade/best friend) in literary texts

• Analyze how point of view influences the way the story is told, and how the author develops the narrator (e.g., how Robert Cormier slowly reveals the narrator's reality in I Am the Cheese)

• Analyze how figurative language (e.g., analogies, idioms, metaphors, similes, personification, puns, hyperbole) affects the meaning, tone, and mood of a literary text or section of a literary text

• Compare and contrast a literary text's portrayal of time, place, and characters with historical facts and nonfictional accounts of the same period (e.g., discuss the portrayal of historical characters and events in Johnny Tremain as opposed to the facts and accounts presented about the Revolutionary War in a history text)

• Read regularly and independently in seventh-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension