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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
In this writing unit, students will write engaging short fiction by creating action-filled plots and believable characters; they will also craft sophisticated and specific scenes to enhance their stories. They will share their stories as a way to both address the role of storytelling in their classroom community as well as to connect to the stories of their classmates.
In this writing unit, students will write engaging short fiction by creating action-filled plots and believable characters; they will also craft sophisticated and specific scenes to enhance their stories. They will share their stories as a way to both address the role of storytelling in their classroom community as well as to connect to the stories of their classmates.
Unit Vocabulary
Unit Vocabulary
story arc
struggles
motivation
dialogue
symbolism
imagery
cadence
character depth
foreshadow
patterns
metaphor
phrases, clauses
misplaced modifier
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Who am I as a reader, as a writer, as a speaker, and as a thinker?
Why are reading, writing, and storytelling essential components of the human experience?
How does English Language Arts expand our perspective?
Unit Standards
Unit Standards
All ELA standards can be found listed in the updated 2017 Massachusetts State ELA Grade 7 Frameworks:
Students will learn...
Writing
Text Types and Purposes
How to write narratives to develop experiences or events using effective literary techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured sequences
a. How to engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an appropriate narrative sequence.
b. How to use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c. How to use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
d. How to use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and figurative and sensory language to establish a mood that evokes an emotion, to capture action, and to convey experiences or events.
e. How to provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events
Production and Distribution of Writing
How to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. For example, students studying the genre of mystery stories write narratives in which they introduce a variety of characters with distinctive traits, create plausible yet mysterious events, use vivid descriptions to create mood, use foreshadowing clues that point to the solution of the mystery, and resolve the mystery with an explanation by one of the characters.
How to develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
a. How to demonstrate command of standard English conventions
b. How to demonstrate the ability to select accurate vocabulary appropriate for audience and purpose
How to use technology, including current web-based communication platforms, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
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