7Th Grade Honors English Quarter 1 Curriculum Map Teacher: Ms. Surber

7th Grade Honors English Quarter 1 Curriculum Map Teacher: Ms. Surber

Big Ideas:

1. What makes a story unforgettable?

2. What makes a character great?

3. What’s the big idea?

Essential Questions:

1. How do we identify and analyze plot and setting? 2 How do we use reading strategies such as connecting and predicting? 3 How do we identify and analyze visual and sound elements in film? 4 How do we identify and analyze characterization? 5 How do we conduct an interview? 6 How do we distinguish topic from theme? 7 How do we identify and interpret symbols? 8 How do we make inferences? 9 How do we dramatize a short story?

Standards RI 11-12.4 RL 11-12.3 RI 11-12.2 RI 11-12.1 RL 11-12.2 RL 11-12.5 RI 11-12.9 RI 11-12.6 L 11-12.4 RI 11-12.8 W 11-12.1b L 11-12.4

Learning Targets RL and RI 11-12.4 Determine meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text (figurative, connotative, and technical meanings) analyze how an author and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text. RL 11-12.3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama. RL and RI 11-12.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text RL and RI 11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. RL 11-12.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. RI 11-12. 5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging. RL and RI 11-12.9 Analyze 17th, 18th, and 19th century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features. RI 11-12.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text. L 11-12.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 11-12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. RI 11-12.8 Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy. SL 11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. SL 11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks. SL 11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. Assessments Tests, quizzes, summaries, short answer and essay questions, projects, application activities, skill application and matching quizzes, oral response, daily oral language responses

Resources and Materials McDougal Littell Literature Grade 7 Literature “Seventh Grade” “The Last Dog” “Thank You, Maam” “Rikki-tikki-tavi” “from Exploring the Titanic” “from An American Childhood” “Casey at the Bat” “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” “Zebra” “The Legacy of the Vietnam War” “The Scholarship Jacket” “A Retrieved Reformation” “The Three Century Woman” “Charles” “Encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr.” “Dirk the Protector” “Amigo Brothers” “The War of the Wall” “Homeless” “A Crush” “A Christmas Carol”

Fantastic Word Puzzles McDougal Littell Resources: Grammar, Writing, Power Points, Media Study, Online Resources

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation Summary, Projects, Participation / Discussion Questions / Handouts, Media Study, Outlining, Through Short answer / essay type questions Short answer / essay type questions Writing Workshop: Interpretive Essay

Key Ideas: Parts of a story, Fiction, nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Media, Comparing Characters, Comparing Themes

Key Idea Questions for each selection:

1. How do you make a good impression?

2. Why are pets good companions?

3. Who sees the best in you?

4. What makes you brave?

5. What can we learn from disasters?

6. When do you feel most alive?

7. Do sports fans care too much?

8. What turns a crowd into a mob?

9. What has the power to heal?

10. What stands in the way of your dreams? 11. Who deserves a second chance?

12. Why do people misbehave?

13. What if you could meet your hero?

14. What do you need to survive?

15. What do we learn from our elders?

16. What happens when friends compete?

17. What makes a community?

18. What makes a gift special?

19. How important is money?

Key Vocabulary: Plot, Setting, Conflict, Suspense, Narrative Nonfiction, Setting in Nonfiction, Narrative Poetry, Conflict in Drama, Character, First Person Point of View, Omniscient Point of View, Characterization, Characterization in Nonfiction, Point of View in a Memoir, Characterization in Poetry, Theme, Topic,

Key Reading Strategies: Connecting, Identifying Sequence, Making Inferences, Predicting, Using Chronological Order, Recognizing Cause and Effect, Reading Poetry, Reading a Teleplay, Visualizing, Making Inferences, Predicting, Setting a Purpose for Reading, Identifying Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, Monitoring, Analyzing Sequence

Grammar Skills: Sentence Fragments, Subjects, Predicates, Complete Sentences, Run-on Sentences, Punctuation of Possessives, Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Correct Pronoun Case, Correct Verb Tense, Comparative and Superlative forms, Misplaced Modifiers, Prepositional Phrases, Punctuation in Dialogue, Sentence Combining, Coordinating Conjunctions, Dependent and Independent Clauses

Writing: Introductions, Body Paragraphs, Transitions, Conclusions, Short Story, Comparison-Contrast Essay, Description Writers: Mona Gardner, Gary Soto, Katherine Patterson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickenson, Rudyard Kipling, Robert D. Ballard, Annie Dillard, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Rod Serling, Chaim Potok, Marta Salinas, O. Henry, Richard Peck, Shirley Jackson, Maya Angelou, Gary Paulsen, Leo Tolstoy, Piri Thomas, Toni Cade Bambara, Anna Quindlen, Cynthia Rylant, Charles Dickens