7th Grade ELAR Unit 1

Big Idea:

Understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

• 7.5 E: make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society
• 7.5 F: make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
• 7.6 C: use text evidence to support an appropriate response
• 7.6 D: paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
• 7.6 F: respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate
• 7.6 H: respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice
• 7.7 A: infer multiple themes within texts using text evidence
• 7.7 B: analyze how characters' qualities influence events and resolution of the conflict
• 7.7 C: analyze plot elements, including the use of foreshadowing and suspense, to advance the plot
• 7.7 D: analyze how the setting influences character and plot development
• 7.9 A: explain the author's purpose and message within a text
• 7.9 F: analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone
• 7.6 B: write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts
• 7.9 D: describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes
• 7.10 A: plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests
• 7.10 B: develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing
• 7.10 C: revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety
• 7.10 D: edit drafts using standard English conventions
• 7.10 Di: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments
• 7.10 Dii: consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses
• 7.10 Diii: conjunctive adverbs
• 7.10 Div: prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
• 7.10 Dv: pronoun-antecedent agreement
• 7.10 Dvi: subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor
• 7.10 Dix: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too
• 7.10 E: publish written work for appropriate audiences

Focus TEKS

• 7.5 C: make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures
• 7.5 D: create mental images to deepen understanding
• 7.6 E: interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating
• 7.9 E: identify the use of literary devices, including subjective and objective point of view
• 7.5 A: establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts
• 7.5 B: generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information
• 7.8 A demonstrate knowledge of literary genres such as realistic fiction, adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, humor, myths, fantasy, and science fiction
• 7.10 D: edit drafts using standard English conventions

Ongoing TEKS

• 7.1 A listen actively to interpret a message and ask clarifying questions that build on others’ ideas
• 7.1 B follow and give complex oral instructions to perform specific tasks, answer questions, or solve problems
• 7.1 D: engage in meaningful discourse and provide and accept constructive feedback from others
• 7.2 A: use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech
• 7.2 C: determine the meaning and usage of grade-level academic English words derived from Greek and Latin roots such as omni, log/logue, gen, vid/vis, phil, luc, and sens/sent
• 7.3 Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on reading purpose.
• 7.4 Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
• 7.5 C: make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures
• 7.5 H: synthesize information to create new understanding
• 7.5 I monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down
• 7.6 A: describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts

Student Learning Targets:

• I will read and comprehend literature at the seventh grade level.
• I will determine the theme of a text and analyze the development of the theme throughout a text.
• I will give an objective summary of a text.
• I will analyze how elements of a story interact with the setting and characters.
• I will analyze how an author develops and.or contrast the point of view of a narrator or characters.

Essential Questions:

• How do the characterization, conflict, and plot of a work of nonfiction differ from those of a work of fiction?
• What makes fiction different from other types of writing?
• What are the main characteristics of a fiction short story?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: Pearson, Prentice Hall Literature

District Grading Policy

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