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The 7th Grade ELA Course delivers a viable curriculum and prepares students for their 8th Grade ELA Course. Students will engage in a variety of reading practices and interact with multiple text genres. Students will use numerous techniques to demonstrate their understandings and interpretations of multiple text types. Additionally, students will write for a variety of purposes using a writing process. This course emphasizes communication skills needed to articulate meaning through collaborative conversations and the strategic use of multiple modalities. 

Overarching Concepts

The following serve as fundamental concepts for all units of instruction within ELA 7:

• Cite evidence to support literal and inferential interpretations of multiple text types
• Use a writing process to produce clear and coherent writings specific to task and audience
• Acquire academic and domain-specific vocabulary through a range of strategies in order to demonstrate and understand how words shape content and meaning
• Analyze the development of themes in literature and central ideas in informational texts
• Research concepts, synthesize information from multiple sources, and communicate ideas using multiple modalities

Pacing Guide Outline:  

1^st Nine Weeks Literary reading and narrative writing. 

RL6—development of theme and objective summary

RL7-- Literary elements and plot structure

RL8—plot elements and how they interact with characters and setting

RL9-- word meaning and figurative language

RL11—Identify author’s point of view

W3—grammar and writing rules

2^nd Nine Weeks Informational text and informational/expository writing.  

RI5—drawing conclusions and citing text evidence

RI6—Write an objective summary and analyze the central ideas of the text

RI9—Use context to determine the meaning of words

W2—Identify credible sources and format citations correctly

W5—Commas, clauses, and adjectives

3^rd Nine Weeks Informational text and argumentative writing. 

RI8—Identify text features and explain how they support author’s claim

RI11—Interpret and analyze the author’s use of language and tone.

W1—Structure and organization of an essay

W4—Simple, compound, and complex sentences

 4^th Nine Weeks Review all standards will be tested on SC Ready reading and writing test.

RL8— plot elements and how they interact with characters and setting

RI5—Proved text evidence to support thinking and drawing conclusions

RI8-- Identify text features and explain how they support the author’s claim

RI11-- Identify author’s point of view

W5-- Commas, ellipses, and dashes as pauses, breaks, or omission