Skills:
- Central Idea
- Previewing a text
- Exposition: Character, setting, and conflict
- Summary vs. SAR
- Using direct quotes for textual evidence
- Writing and color coding a Short Answer Response
Standards Assessed:
RL.7.1. (Priority Standard) Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
RL.7.3. (Priority Standard) Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
RL.7.4. (Priority Standard) Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
RL.7.6 (Priority Standard) Analyze how an author develops and contrasts point of view of a character in a text
RI.7.1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.7.2.1 (Priority Standard) Determine two or more central ideas of the text and details that support the central idea(s)
RI.7.3. Explain how people, ideas, and situations interact in a text
RI.7.4. (Priority Standard) Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
RI.7.5. Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
RI.7.6. Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
RI.7.8 Evaluate an argument and its claims
W.7.1. (Priority Standard) Writing an argument and supporting claim by using relevant evidence and clear reasons using APES format
W.7.4 (Priority Standard) Develop grade-level appropriate writing for task and audience
W.7.6. Use technology to produce and publish writing
W.7.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
L.7.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.7.2. Use spelling, capitalization, spelling and punctuation correctly.
L.7.3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.7.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
L.7.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.