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Curriculum Map Course Title: Language Arts 7 Quarter: Academic Year: 2015-16 Essential Questions for this Quarter: 1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population? Unit/Time Frame Standards Content Skills Assessment Resources ongoing LA 7.1.3.a, Students will use multiple -Know and apply meanings of -Assessed Language Arts LA 7.1.5.a, strategies to understand prefixes, suffixes, and root words to periodically on textbook, LA 7.1.5.b, grade-level vocabulary determine word meanings weekly mixed Literature textbook LA 7.1.5.c, words. -Use context clues to determine word Language Arts and supplemental LA 7.1.5.d, meanings skills quizzes. materials. LA 7.1.5.e -Use digital and print references to -Assessed find word meanings and synonyms regularly in and antonyms (online dictionary individual and/or dictionary app, online assignments thesaurus and/or thesaurus app, related to literary textbook glossary) works read. -Recognize relationships between words (synonyms, antonyms, homophones, analogies, language families) 1st Quarter LA 7.1.5.d, Students will recognize the -Identify the differing connotations of -Individual and/or Language Arts LA 7.2.2.a connotations of words and words with similar denotations (weak group project(s) textbook and choose words appropriate vs. strong, positive/neutral/negative, requiring supplemental to a task or situation. shades of meaning) students to materials. -Choose words with appropriate create and connotations for a given situation in describe order to achieve the desired reaction something in a from the audience. manner that suits the topic and will generate the desired reaction by the audience. (Create-a-car project, mascot project) 1st Quarter LA 7.1.6.e, In conjunction with the -Gather research on a science-related -Science Language Arts LA 7.1.6.k, Science 7 class, students topic, as directed by the science research paper textbook LA 7.2.1.a, will write a research-based teacher LA 7.2.1.b, report following the MLA -Select and organize facts gathered in LA 7.2.1.c, documentation format. research to be used in a report. LA 7.2.1.d, -Compose a paper with an LA 7.2.1.e, introduction, body and conclusion LA 7.2.1.f, incorporating the research LA 7.2.1.g, information, giving credit to sources LA 7.2.1.h, with correctly formatted in-text LA 7.2.1.i, citations and list of works cited. LA 7.2.1.j, -Revise and edit the paper with LA 7.2.2.a, feedback from peers, Language Arts LA 7.2.2.b teacher and Science 7 teacher. LA 7.2.2.c, Curriculum Map Course Title: Language Arts 7 Quarter: Academic Year: 2015-16 Essential Questions for this Quarter: 1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population? Unit/Time Frame Standards Content Skills Assessment Resources LA 7.2.2.d, LA 7.4.1.a, LA 7.4.1.b 1st, 2nd and 4th Quarters LA 7.1.4.a, Students will identify and -Identify types of conflict in literature Assessed Literature LA 7.1.6.a, analyze elements of fiction (external and internal; person vs. self, regularly in textbook, The LA 7.1.6.b, in literary works, including person vs. person, person vs. fate, individual Outsiders, and LA 7.1.6.c, short stories, a novel and person vs. nature, person vs. assignments and supplemental texts LA 7.1.6.d, dramas. machine, person vs. supernatural, projects related (see note A below) LA 7.1.6.h, person vs. society) to literary works LA 7.1.6.i, -Identify elements of plot structure in read. LA 7.1.6.k, literature (exposition, rising action, LA 7.1.6.l, climax, falling action, resolution) LA 7.1.6.m, -Differentiate between a theme and a LA 7.1.6.n, moral. LA 7.1.6.o, -Identify and analyze the author’s use LA 7.1.6.p, of various fictional elements and LA 7.2.2.b, techniques (including setting, mood, LA 7.3.1.b, foreshadowing, plot twist, point of view LA 7.3.3.d, [first person and third person], LA 7.3.3.e dialogue, dialect, irony, flashback, suspense, allusion) -Classify characters by type (protagonist, antagonist, static character, dynamic character, round character, flat character) -Compare and contrast written and performed versions of a text. 1st and 2nd Quarters LA 7.1.6.a, Students will comprehend -Identify main ideas and details in Assessed Literature textbook LA 7.1.6.d, and analyze grade-level nonfiction text. regularly in and supplemental LA 7.1.6.e, nonfiction, including -Identify text structures used in individual texts. LA 7.1.6.f, essays, articles, and organizing nonfiction text assignments and (see note B below) LA 7.1.6.g, autobiographical and (chronological order, cause and effect, projects related LA 7.1.6.h, biographical text. main idea and supporting details, to works read. LA 7.1.6.i, comparison and contrast) LA 7.1.6.j, -Identify the author’s purpose for LA 7.1.6.l, writing (to inform, to entertain, to LA 7.1.6.m, persuade) LA 7.1.6.n, -Obtain information from text features LA 7.4.1.c such as charts, tables, maps and info. graphics 2nd and 3rd Quarters LA 7.1.5.d, Students will identify, -Identify, analyze the meaning of and Assessed in Literature textbook LA 7.1.6.c analyze and use figurative generate examples of the following conjunction with and supplemental Curriculum Map Course Title: Language Arts 7 Quarter: Academic Year: 2015-16 Essential Questions for this Quarter: 1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population? Unit/Time Frame Standards Content Skills Assessment Resources language and sound types of figurative language and poetry reading materials. devices. sound devices: simile, metaphor, and writing units. personification, anthropomorphism, hyperbole, idiom, oxymoron, paradox, onomatopoeia, alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyme (end, internal, and slant) 2nd and 3rd Quarters LA 7.1.4.a, Students will comprehend -Identify forms of poetry and their Assessed Literature textbook LA 7.1.5.d, and analyze poetry in characteristics (narrative poetry, lyric regularly in and supplemental LA 7.1.6.a, multiple forms. poetry, ballad, haiku, cinquain, individual texts. LA 7.1.6.b, limerick, free verse, concrete poetry, assignments and (see note C below) LA 7.1.6.c, found poetry) projects related LA 7.1.6.d, -Locate and analyze figurative to poems read. LA 7.1.6.g, language and sound devices in poetry LA 7.1.6.h, -Identify and analyze the use of LA 7.1.6.i, various poetic elements (stanza, LA 7.1.6.l, couplet, tercet, quatrain, rhyme LA 7.1.6.o scheme, repetition, refrain/chorus, rhythm, symbolism, anaphora, epistrophe) 2nd and 3rd Quarters LA 7.2.1.a, Students will compose -Create poems following the Completion of Literature LA 7.2.1.e, poetry in multiple formats, conventions of various forms, poems following textbook, LA 7.2.1.g, incorporating various types incorporating figurative language and specifications of Language Arts LA 7.2.1.h, of figurative language and sound devices as appropriate (echoic the genre. textbook and LA 7.2.1.j, sound devices. poem, free verse, haiku, cinquain, supplemental LA 7.2.2.a, limerick, concrete poem, blackout materials. LA 7.2.2.d, poem) LA 7.2.2.e 2nd & 4th Quarters LA 7.1.6.b, Students will identify the -Define the characteristics of various Assessed Literature textbook LA 7.1.6.d, genre of fictional text. genres of fiction and determine the regularly in and supplemental LA 7.1.6.g, genre of a fictional text (folktale, myth, individual texts. LA 7.1.6.h, legend, tall tale, urban legend, assignments and (see note D below) LA 7.1.6.i, fantasy, fairy tale, science fiction, projects related LA 7.1.6.n, supernatural fiction, historical fiction, to works read. LA 7.2.2.b realistic fiction) 4th Quarter LA 7.1.6.d, Students will recognize -Compare and contrast Cinderella- Assessed in Literature textbook LA 7.1.6.g, archetypal characters and type stories from multiple cultures to individual and supplemental LA 7.1.6.h, patterns in literature. determine the essential characteristics assignments and texts. LA 7.1.6.i, of the Cinderella archetypal character. projects related (see note E below) LA 7.1.6.l, -Identify basic elements of the literary to works read. hero pattern in a story (call to adventure, magical help, crossing the threshold, trials, hero’s triumphant Curriculum Map Course Title: Language Arts 7 Quarter: Academic Year: 2015-16 Essential Questions for this Quarter: 1. How do you determine if an object is living or nonliving? 2. What impact does the environment have on a population? Unit/Time Frame Standards Content Skills Assessment Resources return) Note A: Selected texts -“Amigo Brothers” short story by Piri Thomas from this list have been -“Priscilla and the Wimps” short story by Richard Peck used for teaching -“I Hate You, Wallace B. Pokras” short story by Ellen Conford elements of fiction in -“Charles” short story by Shirley Jackson recent years. -“No News” traditional folktale retold by Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman -“Antaeus” short story by Borden Deal -“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” short story by Rudyard Kipling -“All Summer in a Day” short story by Ray Bradbury -“All Summer in a Day” short film online at bit.ly/1VvFIv7 -“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” screenplay by Rod Serling -“Eye of the Beholder” Twilight Zone episode online at bit.ly/1axo4jN -“The Old Demon” short story by Pearl S.