CURRICULUM MAP GRADE 7
BARRINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
/ COMMON CORE CLUSTERS AND FOCUS STANDARDS / QUARTER ASSESSMENT /Semester One / READING LITERARY
RL.7.6: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
READING INFORMATIONAL
RI 7.3 Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
RI. RI 7.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others
RI 7.9 Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
WRITING
W.7.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W 7.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W 7.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7 on page 52.)
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
SL.7.3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
SL 7.3 Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning L 7.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
LANGUAGE
L.7.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L 7.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies
L.7.4©Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech
L.7.4(d)Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary). / · Q1 On demand – response to text Informative
· Q1 Quarterly assessment
· Q1 Argument Writing
· Midterm Assessment of Learning
· Q2 MultiMedia Presentation
· Q2 Explanatory Essay
Semester Two / READING LITERARY
RL.7.5: Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure contributes to its meaning.
RL.7.7: Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
RL.7.3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
READING INFORMATIONAL
RI.7.3: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
RI.7.9: Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
RI.7.2: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
WRITING
W.7.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
W.7.7: Conduct short research projects from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
SL.7.2: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
SL.7.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one on one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.7.1(c): Pose questions that illicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
SL7.1(d): Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views.
LANGUAGE
L.7.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
L.7.4: Determine of clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.7.4(b): Use common, grade-appropriate, Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
L.7.4(d): Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
/ · Q3 Quarterly assessment of learning
· Q3 Argument Writing
· Final assessment of learning
· Q4 On-demand Narrative Essay
· Q4 Research Writing
Grade 7 : Unit 1: Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of Our World
Title: Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of Our World (Grade 7): In this first unit of seventh grade, students begin their year-long study of the human condition by examining how a variety of genres can address the human condition: fantasy, comedy, tragedy, the short story, and poetry.
Instructional Days: 4-6 weeks
Overview:
Although students read from various genres, writing and class discussions focus on how literature can help us make sense of our world. In particular, students will examine “point of view,” analyzing how authors develop different points of view. The overall goal of this unit is for students to experiment with a variety of reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies and skills. The unit ends with an informative/explanatory essay in response to the essential question: Is literature always a reflection of life?
Essential Question:
Is literature always a reflection of life?
Student Objectives (what students will be able to do):
1. Describe how point of view is developed in a variety of genres-drama, short stories, and poetry.
2. Explain the basic characteristics of comedy and tragedy.
3. Compare novels and their theatrical and film versions.
4. Identify a common theme in different novels and advance an argument about theme.
Literary Texts:
Novels/Novellas
Walkabout (James Vance Marshall)
Prairie Songs (Pam Conrad)
Nonfiction
Prairie Visions (Pam Conrad)
Short Stories
Little Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories for the Middle School (Peter Guthrie)
“Story of an Hour” (Kate Chopin)
“The Diamond Necklace” (Guy deMapssant)
“The Open Window” (Saki)
“The Interlopers” (Saki)
“The Monkey’s Paw” (W.W. Jacobs)
“The Last Leaf” (O. Henry)
“The Ransom of Red Chief” (O. Henry) To be used for on-demand, not instruction.
“Gift of the Magi” (O. Henry)
“The Clarion Call” (O. Henry)
“After Twenty Years” (O. Henry)
“The Cop and the Anthem” (O. Henry)
Folklore
“Icarus and Daedalus” (Josephine Preston Peabody)
“Demeter and Persephone” (Anne Terry White)
Aesop’s Fables
Drama
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
Poetry
The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic (Allan Wolf)
Art, Music, Media:
Film
“The Cop and the Anthem” (O. Henry) DVD
“The Last Leaf” (O. Henry) DVD
“The Ransom of Red Chief” (O. Henry) DVD (Text used for on-demand; may use this AFTER on-demand.)
“Gift of the Magi” (O. Henry) DVD
“The Clarion Call” (O. Henry) DVD
Art
“The Flight of Icarus and Daedalus” (Roger Brown) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zJpnTu57Koc/R_VKHO6j77I/AAAAAAAADFc/CKllvn4muD4/s1600-h/LI-sculp-2015b.jpg
“The Abduction of Persephone” (Rembrandt) https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/prec/www/course/mythology/0700/807b.jpg
“Nighthawks” (Edward Hopper)
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Quarter 2 Embracing Heritage
Instructional Days 4-6 Weeks
Essential Question: How does heritage define us individually and as a nation?
Unit Summary
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. Franklin Roosevelt
America is a nation of immigrants. This diversity has helped to make our country rich in ideas, traditions, and customs. Except for the Native Americans, every American came here from somewhere else – or is born of ancestors who did. People have come, and continue to come, to America to seek freedom and opportunity. Some did not come here voluntarily, and some immigrants encountered prejudice. To learn more about the role of immigration in American heritage, students read and discuss a variety of fictional & informational texts. To appreciate how we are shaped by the experiences we have and the people we encounter, students do a Generations Project, in which they consider perspectives from different generations within a family. The project also helps hone students’ interview & research skills. In addition, students create semantic maps of the phrase “embracing heritage” in order to represent visually their understanding of this phrase. They write an informational/explanatory essay in response to the essential question: How does heritage define us individually and as a nation?
Note: This unit provides an example of how cross-curricular collaboration can naturally occur between English & other content areas. Students can read informational texts in history class, and compare those accounts to personal narratives and accounts about immigrants’ experience read in English class. Much discussion centers on the ways in which background information enhances understanding of literature (whether on immigration or any other history/science topic of teachers’ choosing.) This unit also demonstrates how reading & writing standards provide instructional connectivity between learning in English & other content areas.
Skills (What Students need to be able to do)
· Define the word heritage and review the word culture.
· Explore U.S. immigrant experiences through historical fiction & nonfiction texts.
· Analyze multiple accounts of U.S. immigration from different points of view & describe important similarities & differences in the details they provide.
· Conduct interviews to gather information from human “ primary sources” (e.g., with family members).
· Summarize information gleaned from interviews.
· Explain the importance of oral tradition.
· Conduct research on countries from which family members emigrated.
· Write arguments about the proposition that “America is a land of opportunity.”
· Define related words & define their parts of speech (e.g., migrate, immigrate, emigrate, etc.)
Informational Texts:
· Coming to America: The Story of Immigration (Betsy Maestro & Susannah Ryan)
· Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney)
· A History of Us: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 (Book 7) (Joy Hakim) (EA)
· Immigrant Kids (Russell Freedman) (EA)
· We Were There Too (Phillip Hoose)
· If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island (Ellen Levine and Wayne Parmenter)
· Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Uncovering Your Family’s History (Maureen Alice Taylor)
· A Night to Remember: A Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic (Walter Lord)
· You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic! One Voyage You’d Rather Not Make (You Wouldn’t Want to… Series) (David Evelyn Stewart, David Salariya, and David Antram)
· Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost- Was Found (Robert D. Ballard)
Literary Texts
· Land of Hope (Joan Lowery Nixon)
· Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
· Project Mulberry (Linda Sue Park)
· Escape from Saigon: How a Viet Name War Orphan Became an American Boy (Andrea Warren)
· One Eye Laughing, The Other Eye Weeping: The diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York. 1938 (Dear America Series) (Barry Denenberg)
Art, Music, and Media
· Jacob Riis, various photographs
Music and Lyrics
· “Coming to America” (Neil Diamond)
Grade 7 : Unit 3, Quarter 3
Title: Courage in Life and in Literature (Grade 7): This third eight-week unit of seventh grade delves more deeply into character analysis, focusing on determined and courageous people in both informational texts and literature.
Instructional Days: 4-6 weeks
Overview:
Students read, study, and discuss excerpts from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Students choose another non-fiction or fictional work to explore how courage is projected through these works. Students see how and where these stories fit within informational texts on World War 2. They also compare the ways in which Frank’s diary is similar to and different from the play version of her story. Students focus their reading on in depth analyses of interactions among individuals, events, and ideas in a variety of texts comparing the ways in which different authors shape similar stories. This unit ends with an informative/explanatory essay in response to the essential question.
Essential Question:
How can reading about literary characters and real people form our understanding of History and the adversities and the courage it took for individuals to persevere?
Student Objectives (what students will be able to do):
1. Define courage.
2. Read and discuss fictional and informational texts about people, real and fictional, that face conflict.
3. Explain how knowing the historical context of a story may enhance your understanding of a story.
4. Analyze two accounts of the same event and describe important similarities and differences in the details they provide.
5. Explain how an author’s style can help convey the theme of their stories, poems, or speeches.
Compare and contrast texts to dramatic interpretations for stage and screen.
Literary Texts:
Novels/Novellas
The Wave (Strasser, Todd)
Night (Ellie Weisel)
Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
Kris’ War (Carol Matas)
Lisa’s War (Carol Matas)
The Art of Keeping Cool (Janet Taylor Lisle)
I Am David (Holm, Anne)
The Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen, Jane)
Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)
No Promises in the Wind (Irene Hunt)
Short Stories
“Horton Hears a Who” (Dr. Seuss)
“Yertle the Turtle” (Dr. Seuss)
“The Sneetches” (Dr. Seuss)
Drama
The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play (8th grade PH)