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Class Title: English
Grade Level: 7
Nine Weeks: 1
Unit: Sentence Syntax Unit
Concepts/Content
*Function of phrases and clauses
Desired Outcomes
--Identify in sentences prepositional phrases, participial phrases,
infinitive phrases, appositive phrases, subordinate clauses, and
absolutes.
*Utilization of phrases and clauses within a sentence
--Construct and combine sentences, utilizing the following phrases
and clauses: prepositional phrases, participial phrases, infinitive
phrases, appositive phrases, subordinate clauses, and absolutes.
*Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex
sentences
*Conventions of standard English grammar in avoiding run-on
sentences and fragments
--Construct the following types of sentences: simple, compound,
complex, and compound-complex.
--Write and correct sentences to conform to the conventions of
standard English grammar, avoiding run-on sentences and
fragments.
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Class Title: English
Grade Level: 7
Nine Weeks: 1
Unit: Narrative Composition Unit
Concepts/Content
*Development of real or imagined experiences or events,
using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and
well-structured event sequences in narrative compositions
Desired Outcomes
--Construct pre-writing maps to plan and organize a narrative.
*Establishment of a context, point of view, and
character/narrator introductions
--Compose an opening paragraph for narrative.
*Narrative techniques, including dialogue and description
--Compose a humorous dialogue for narrative.
--Compose expanded-moment, descriptive paragraphs.
*Transitional devices (words, phrases, clauses, and
sentences)
--Write sentences containing context-specific transitions.
--Write transitional sentences.
--Incorporate appropriate transitions into the narrative.
*Precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and
sensory language
--Substitute vivid, specific verbs for weak, general verbs.
--Convert dead-verb sentences into action-verb sentences.
--Construct strong-verb sentences.
--Compose a humorous formal diction paragraph.
--Compose a humorous informal diction paragraph.
*Style (voice) appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
--Compose a paragraph that employs caricature.
--Compose a descriptive paragraph with vivid adjectives, strong
verbs, similes or metaphors, and original diction.
--Write sentences containing comical hyperboles.
*Editing and revision
--Edit and revise one’s own narrative and provide recommendations
for editing and revising peers’ narratives.
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*Conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation,
grammar, and spelling when writing
--Correct convention errors in narrative.
*Use of technology, including the Internet, to produce and
publish writing
--Type and format humorous narrative on Internet-based Google
Docs on computer.
Class Title: English
Grade Level: 7
Nine Weeks: 2
Unit: Poetry Unit
Concepts/Content
*Use of precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive
details, and sensory language to capture the action and
convey experiences and events
*Poetic style appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
Desired Outcomes
--Identify in tribute poems poetry elements that enhance description
and sensory language.
--Compose sentences containing creative similes and/or metaphors.
--Compose sentences containing personification.
--Compose an anecdote containing alliteration.
--Compose a story containing onomatopoeia words.
--Replace clichés in sentences with original, descriptive language.
--Compose a tribute poem.
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Class Title: English
Grade Level: 7
Nine Weeks: 2
Unit: Conventions of Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization Unit
Concepts/Content
*Standard English grammar and usage
Desired Outcomes
--Use pronouns correctly.
--Demonstrate proper subject-verb agreement.
--Demonstrate proper pronoun-antecedent agreement.
--Avoid run-ons and fragments in sentence construction.
*Standard English capitalization and punctuation
--Apply the rules of standard capitalization in writing.
--Use apostrophes correctly.
--Demonstrate correct comma usage.
--Demonstrate proper usage of periods, semicolons, and hyphens.
Class Title: English
Grade Level: 7
Nine Weeks: 4
Unit: Persuasive Composition Unit
Concepts/Content
*Production and analysis of claims, reasons, and evidence in
persuasive argumentation
Desired Outcomes
--Identify and analyze the assertions, reasons, evidence, and
rebuttals of a persuasive essay.
--Write a rebuttal paragraph that first accurately states the
opposition’s point, and then proceeds to employ strategies of
rebuttal to provide a counterpoint.
*Delineation and evaluation of a speaker’s argument
--Verbally apply the Assertions/Reasons/Evidences Method and
Five-Step Refutation Model.
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*Discussion protocol
--Apply debate procedure while engaging in “debate tennis”
discussion in class.
*Support of claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence
--Write a persuasive essay composition that includes supports for
the writer’s view as well as supports for a rebuttal of the opposing
view.
*Question and response procedure, maintaining focus in
group discussion
--Generate appropriate questions and persuasive responses while
engaging in a small-group discussion on a debatable philosophical
question.
*Acknowledgement of opposing claims
--Rebut fallacies in logic.
*Research strategies
--Record research cards (paraphrased research information) and
source cards, according to proper format, while researching Internet
articles and books.
--Paraphrase, in a debate notes packet, research notes from
Internet sources.
*Formation of arguments to support claims with clear reasons
and relevant evidence
--Write a persuasive essay composition on the topic of technology
use in school or in society.
*Standard format for citation of research sources
--Construct and type, in proper format, a bibliography page with
research sources.
--In the paragraphs of the persuasive essay composition, use
proper format for inserting parenthetical citations of research
sources.
*Application of multimedia components and visual displays in
presentations
--Construct a Google Docs slide presentation for debate speech.
*Protocol for small-group, collaborative discussions
--Contribute actively to team debate preparations.
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*Effective argumentation to support claims
*Protocol for collaborative discussion
--Prepare and deliver a formal debate speech.