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Each student is aiming to obtain a 3 or better on each target skill. There should be multiple attempts to obtain each target throughout the semester.
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Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: Trace and evaluate an argument and its specific claims in an informational text.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: Evaluate the soundness of an author’s reasoning, the relevance and sufficiency of evidence to support the claim(s) and acknowledge the counterclaim in an informational text.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
Target 1: Analyze how a theme or central idea develops over the course of a text through an objective summary with supporting details.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
Target 2: Cite several pieces of relevant textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Analyzing Language
Target 1: Determine or clarify the denotative meaning of words and phrases in a text, including academic vocabulary, using Greek and Latin affixes and roots or reference materials.
Analyzing Language
Target 2: Determine the connotative and technical meanings of words and phrases to analyze the impact of specific word choice on meaning, tone, or theme(s) in a text.
Analyzing Language
Target 3: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Analyzing Narratives
Target 1: Analyze how specific elements of a literary text interact.
Analyzing Point of View
Target 1: Analyze how an author develops the point of view or purpose of the narrator or speaker in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his/her position from that of others.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Analyze how the structure of a story, drama, or poem contributes to its meaning.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 2: Analyze how the structure an author uses to organize an informational text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole, its meaning, and the development of ideas.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 3: Analyze how the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas are conveyed in an informational text.
Audience, Purpose, and Task
Target 1: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate for the audience, purpose, and task.
Comparing Texts
Target 1: Integrate information presented in different texts, media, or formats to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
Comparing Texts
Target 2: Compare and contrast a fictional and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
Comparing Texts
Target 3: Analyze the techniques and evidence two authors use to present their differing perspectives on the same topic with different key information, evidence, or interpretations of facts.
Editing
Target 1: Edit for capitalization and correct spelling when writing. (e.g. correctly capitalized titles, proper nouns, and proper adjectives in context).
Editing
Target 2: Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to introduce nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements when writing. (e.g., introductory clauses, nonessential information, direct addresses, and words such as yes or not with commas).
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons, relevant evidence, and credible sources to demonstrate understanding of the topic or text and acknowledge the counterclaim.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: Create cohesion and clarify relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence using words, phrases, and clauses.
Generating Narratives
Target 1: Write narratives to create real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Generating Narratives
Target 2: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one-time frame or setting to another.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Write informative/explanatory texts with an appropriate text structure to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content using formal style.
Parts of Speech
Target 1: Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
Revision
Target 1: revise and strengthen writing so that word choice is clear, precise, and appropriate for the style of the text.
Revision
Target 2: Revise sentences so that they vary in length and complexity to include compound-complex sentences and remove redundancy or extraneous information.
Sources and Research
Target 1: Conduct short research projects to answer a research question using print and digital sources to answer a research question for a short research project and generate additional questions for further investigation.
Sources and Research
Target 2: Assess the credibility and accuracy of sources to quote or paraphrase avoiding plagiarism by following standard MLA format for citation.
Sources and Research
Target 3: Draw evidence from text to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Speaking and Listening
Target 1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly with pertinent descriptions, facts, and details on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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