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2 | Grade Level | Standards | Skills | Checkpoint |
3 | 7 | 7R1, 7R2, 7R3, 7R5, 7R6 7W3, 7W4 | READING ✓ Students will be able to cite textual evidence to support the text, make meaning and internalize the main messages, themes and ideas being relayed in the text from the speaker. ✓ Students will be able to chart themes and central ideas over time and note parts of stories/texts that help build on these themes/ideas. Students will use this knowledge to summarize the central ideas as well. ✓ In texts, students will be able to identify the elements of stories: plot, setting, conflict, character and theme, identify the elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution and know setting is time and place. ✓ Students will be able to understand conflict: (person v. person, person v. self, person v. nature, person v. society), identify and know the protagonist in a story is the main character and the antagonist is the opponent of the protagonist, and understand the concept of characterization. ✓ Students will understand that themes are messages from the author or lessons the characters learn about life, human nature, or society. ✓ Students will be able to analyze how elements of plot are related to each other and the effects/impacts they have on each other. ✓ Students will consider how the points of view and the perspectives developed by the author help build the backgrounds of characters and contribute to the story. WRITING ✓ Students will be able to write narratives that work to develop real or imagined experience/events. There is a focus on sequencing events in correct order so that their narratives make logical sense to themselves and the readers. ✓ Students will create poems, stories, written responses or other mediums that respond to a text, relate to a theme, or speak about personal experience(s). | Students will demonstrate their knowledge of literary terms and elements using stories such as, “Thank You M'am” and “Charles" or other texts. Students will complete a graphic organizer focusing on sequencing events in correct order so that their narratives make logical sense to themselves and the readers. Students will be assessed for their understanding of characters, setting, plot, inner thoughts/actions that show the character's behavior, conflicts and theme using the short story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto. |
4 | *In red, changes from grade level to grade level, increase in complexity/ rigor | |||