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Library dates: Tentative and subject to change

Nov.   1     15

Dec.   6      20

Jan.    3     17     31

Feb.   14    28

Mar.   13    27

Apr.    17

May    1     15

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Book Journal Entries - Please check page 101 of the composition book for language arts for dates that these are due. Students were given a rough copy (9/19) of what one should sound like to help them write their own.

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Seventh Grade Goals and Objectives

Integrated Year Long
Competency Goal 1: The learner will use language to express individual perspectives in response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.
  1.01 Narrate an expressive account
  1.02 Respond to expressive materials that are read,        
          heard, and/or viewed
  1.03  Interact in a group settings
  1.04  Reflect on learning experiences
Competency Goal 2: The learner will synthesize and use information from a variety of sources.
  2.01  Respond to informational materials that are read, heard, and/or viewed.
Competency Goal 3: The learner will refine the understanding and use of argument.
  3.02  Explore and analyze the problem-solution process
  3.03  Study and create arguments that evaluate
Competency Goal 4: The learner will refine critical thinking skills and create criteria to evaluate print and non-print materials.
  4.01  Analyze the purpose of the author or creator
  4.02  Develop (with assistance) and apply  appropriate criteria to evaluate the quality of the communication        
  4.03  Develop the stance of a critic
Competency Goal 5: The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.
  5.01  Increase fluency, comprehension, and insight through a
meaningful and comprehensive literacy program
Competency Goal 6: The learner will apply conventions of
grammar and language usage.
  6.01  Model and understanding of conventional written and
           spoken expression
  6.02  Continue to identify and edit errors in spoken and
           written English

Literary Terms/Reading Skills/Literary Genres Vocabulary

Goal 5: The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.

5.02 Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through:

• reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., mysteries, novels, science-fiction, historical documents, newspapers, skits, lyric poems).

• analyzing what genre specific characteristics have on the meaning of the work.

• analyzing how the author's choice and use of a genre shapes the meaning of the literary work.

• analyzing what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text such as the influence of setting on the problem and its resolution.

Literary Focus: author’s purpose, author’s stance, characterization, audience, context, dialogue, suspense, setting, plot, irony, point of view, symbolism, inference, main idea, context clues, drawing conclusions, compare and contrast, climax, interpretation, summarizing, resolution, exposition, rising action, denouement (falling action), bias, mood, tone novels, autobiography, myth, essay, magazine, plays, informational text, pattern poems, blank verse, fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry

Grammar Focus: Review subject/verb agreement, review complete sentences vs. fragments, use a variety of sentence types and punctuate them properly-complex, compound, compound-complex, simple

Second Quarter

Content Focus

Literary Terms/Reading Skills/Literary Genres Vocabulary

Goal 5: The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.

5.02 Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through: reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., mysteries, novels, science fiction, historical documents, newspapers, skits, lyric poems). • analyzing what genre specific characteristics have on the meaning of the work.

• analyzing how the author's choice and use of a genre shapes the meaning of the literary work.

• analyzing what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text such as the influence of setting on the problem and its resolution.

Literary Focus: author’s purpose, author’s stance, characterization, audience, context, dialogue, suspense,

setting, plot, irony, point of view, symbolism, inference, main idea, context clues, drawing conclusions, compare and contrast, climax, interpretation, summarizing, resolution, exposition, rising action, denouement (falling action), bias, mood, tone novels, autobiography, myth, essay, magazine, plays, informational text, pattern poems, blank verse, fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry

Writing Focus: Letter, Literary Analysis, or Creative Writing

Grammar Focus: Review subject/verb agreement, review complete sentences vs. fragments, use a variety of sentence types and punctuate them properly-complex, compound, compound-complex, simple

Research Skills

Goal 2: The learner will synthesize and use information from a variety of sources.

2.02 Use multiple sources of print and non-print information in designing and developing informational materials (such as brochures, newsletters, and infomercials) through:  identifying and using appropriate primary and secondary sources.  comparing, contrasting, and evaluating information from different sources about the same topic.  evaluating information for extraneous details, inconsistencies, relevant facts, and organization.

Research Focus: The Big6 research strategies, multiple resources, primary and secondary sources, effects of presentation, generate questions, summarize information specific process

Grammar Focus: Edit/identify errors, editing symbols, awareness of errors in speech