Seventh+Grade


 * Seventh Grade Media Standards**

**ELA7RC1 The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) per year from a variety of subject disciplines. The student reads both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse, including technical texts related to various subject areas.**
 * ELA7R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. **

Critical Component: For literary texts, the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that: a. Distinguishes between the concepts of theme in a literary work and the author’s purpose in an expository text. b. Interprets a character’s traits, emotions, or motivations and gives supporting evidence from a text. c. Relates a literary work to information about its setting or historical moment. d. Analyzes recurring and similar themes across a variety of selections, distinguishing theme from topic. e. Identifies events that advance the plot and determines how each event explains past or present action(s) or foreshadows future action(s). f. Analyzes characterization (dynamic and static) in prose and plays as delineated through a character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator’s description; and the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. g. Explains and analyzes the effects of sound, form, figurative language, and graphics in order to uncover meaning in literature: i. Sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, rhyme scheme) ii. Figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole) iii. Graphics (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position). h. Identifies and analyzes how an author’s use of words creates tone and mood, giving supporting evidence from text. i. Identifies and analyzes similarities and differences in traditional literature from different cultures.

Critical Component: For informational texts, the student reads and comprehends in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that: a. Analyzes common textual features to obtain information (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences, concluding sentences, introduction, conclusion, footnotes, index, bibliography). b. Identifies and uses knowledge of common graphic features to draw conclusions and make judgments (e.g., graphic organizers, diagrams, captions, illustrations). c. Applies knowledge of common organizational structures and patterns (i.e., logical order, cause and effect relationships, comparison and contrast, transitions). d. Recognizes and traces the development of the author’s argument for and against an issue. e. Identifies evidence used to support an argument. f. Understands and explains the use of a simple device by following technical directions.
 * ELA7W3 The student uses research and technology to support writing. The student **

a. Identifies topics, asks and evaluates questions, and develops ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. b. Gives credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations. c. Includes researched information in different types of products (e.g., compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic organizers, projects, etc.). d. Documents sources e.Uses electronic media to locate relevant information.