Reading Literature

• RL 7.1 / RL 7.2 / RL 7.3 / RL 7.7 / RL 7.9 - (See 1st Quarter)

Reading Informational Text

• RI 7.1 – Cite textual evidence that strongly supports what text says & inferences drawn

• RI 7.10 – By end of year, read & comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently

• RI 7.2 / RI 7.4 / RI 7.7 – (See 1st Nine Weeks)

Writing

• W 7.3 / W 7.4 – (See 1st Nine Weeks)

• W 7.10 – Write routinely over both extended and shorter time frames for a range of discipline specific tasks, purposes, audiences

Speaking & Listening

• SL 7.2 – Analyze main ideas & supporting details from diverse media & formats; explain how clarifies topic or issue

• SL 7.6 – Adapt speech to a variety of contexts & tasks; command of formal English

Language

• L 7.5 – Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, nuances in word meanings

a. Interpret figures of speech in context

b. Use the relationship between particular words (synonym, antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words

c. Distinguish among connotations of words with similar denotations

• L 7.1 – Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar & usage when writing or speaking

a. Explain the function of phrases /clauses in general & their function in specific sent.

b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, & compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas