7th Grade ELAR Unit 3

Big Idea:

Recognize and analyze genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within dramas.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

• 7.5 F: make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
• 7.8 C: analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging
• 7.1 C: present a critique of a literary work, film, or dramatic production, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, a variety of natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively
• 7.8 Di the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence
• 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 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
• 7.6 C: use text evidence to support an appropriate response
• 7.6 G: discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text

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
• 7.5 A: establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts
• 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

Student Learning Targets:

• I will use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
• I will adapt speech to a variety of tasks and contexts.
• I will demonstrate a command of formal English.
• I will analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact.
• I will analyze how and why characters, events, ideas, and setting develop and interact over the course of a text.

Essential Questions:

• How does an author develops and/or contrast the point of view of a narrator or characters?
• How do a character’s actions and reactions pertain to story events?
• What specific events within the plot are critical to the overall story and resolution?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: Pearson, Prentice Hall Literature

District Grading Policy

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