Grade 7 Grade Book
Check-Point #1 and Classroom-Based Standards
Assign Date
Due Date
Title
Category
(first date of
the checkpoint)
(last date of the
checkpoint)
(to be placed as
the name of the
assignment)
(_Performance OR
_Practice)
Points
Details
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr109
Figurative
Language
PA109
Figurative
Language
Pr117
Compare &
Contrast
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA117
Compare &
Contrast
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Performance
100
Describe the physical traits, personality traits, feelings,
actions, and motives of major and minor characters in
grade- level-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.1, ACT)
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr126a
Character
Traits
PA126a
Character
Traits
Pr126b
Character
Interactions
_Practice
100
Explain how the physical traits, personality traits, feelings,
actions, and motives of major and minor characters
influence, characters’ interactions with other characters and
elements of the plot, including conflict resolution, in gradelevel-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.1, ACT)
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA126b
Character
_Performance
100
Explain how the physical traits, personality traits, feelings,
actions, and motives of major and minor characters
(complete standard – add your own instructions to the
student as necessary)
Determine the meaning of figurative language, including
similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia,
and personification, and identify idioms in a passage, using
context clues (▲R7.1.3.4, ACT)
Determine the meaning of figurative language, including
similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia,
and personification, and identify idioms in a passage, using
context clues (▲R7.1.3.4, ACT)
Compare and contrast varying aspects, like characters’
traits and motives, themes, problem-solution, cause-andeffect relationships, ideas and concepts, procedures,
viewpoints, and authors’ purposes, within and across gradelevel appropriate passages (▲R7.1.4.7, ACT)
Compare and contrast varying aspects, like characters’
traits and motives, themes, problem-solution, cause-andeffect relationships, ideas and concepts, procedures,
viewpoints, and authors’ purposes, within and across gradelevel appropriate passages (▲R7.1.4.7, ACT)
Describe the physical traits, personality traits, feelings,
actions, and motives of major and minor characters in
grade- level-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.1, ACT)
Grade 7 Grade Book
Check-Point #1 and Classroom-Based Standards
Interactions
influence, characters’ interactions with other characters and
elements of the plot, including conflict resolution, in gradelevel-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.1, ACT)
Determine and explain the importance of the setting, such as
the environment, time of day or year, historical period,
situation, and place, in grade-level-appropriate passages
(▲R7.2.1.2, ACT)
Determine and explain the importance of the setting, such as
the environment, time of day or year, historical period,
situation, and place, in grade-level-appropriate passages
(▲R7.2.1.2, ACT)
Analyze connections between the setting and other story
elements, like character and plot, in grade-level-appropriate
passages (▲R7.2.1.2, ACT)
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr127a Setting _Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA127a
Setting
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
_Performance
100
Analyze connections between the setting and other story
elements, like character and plot, in grade-level-appropriate
passages (▲R7.2.1.2, ACT)
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr127b
Setting
Connections
PA127b
Setting
Connections
Pr128a Plot
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA128a Plot
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr128b Plot
Relationships
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA128b Plot
Relationships
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr119
_Practice
100
Determine and explain the importance of major and minor
elements of the plot, including problem or conflict, climax,
resolution, rising action, falling action, subplots, and
parallel episodes, in grade- level-appropriate passages
(▲R7.2.1.3, ACT)
Determine and explain the importance of major and minor
elements of the plot, including problem or conflict, climax,
resolution, rising action, falling action, subplots, and
parallel episodes, in grade- level-appropriate passages
(▲R7.2.1.3, ACT)
Determine and explain the importance of relationships
between problem or conflict, climax, resolution, rising
action, falling action, subplots, and parallel episodes in
grade-level-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.3, ACT)
Determine and explain the importance of relationships
between problem or conflict, climax, resolution, rising
action, falling action, subplots, and parallel episodes in
grade-level-appropriate passages (▲R7.2.1.3, ACT)
Use paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize
information, including stated and implied main ideas, main
Grade 7 Grade Book
Check-Point #1 and Classroom-Based Standards
Summarize
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA119
Summarize
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr108
Structural
Analysis
_Practice
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA108
Structural
Analysis
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr109
_Practice
Figurative
Language
PA109
_Performance
Figurative
Language
Pr121 Literary _Practice
Devices
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA121
Literary
Devices
_Performance
100
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
Pr211
Sentence
Fluency
_Practice
100
100
100
events, and important details, from narrative, expository,
persuasive, and technical passages (▲R7.1.4.9, ACT)
Use paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize
information, including stated and implied main ideas, main
events, and important details, from narrative, expository,
persuasive, and technical passages (▲R7.1.4.9, ACT)
Determine the meaning of words in a passage through
contextual and structural analysis, using knowledge of
Greek, Latin, and Anglo- Saxon roots, prefixes, and suffixes
to understand complex words in science, mathematics, and
social studies (▲R7.1.3.3, ACT)
Determine the meaning of words in a passage through
contextual and structural analysis, using knowledge of
Greek, Latin, and Anglo- Saxon roots, prefixes, and suffixes
to understand complex words in science, mathematics, and
social studies (▲R7.1.3.3, ACT)
Determine the meaning of figurative language, including
similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia,
and personification, and identify idioms in a passage, using
context clues (▲R7.1.3.4, ACT)
Determine the meaning of figurative language, including
similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia,
and personification, and identify idioms in a passage, using
context clues (▲R7.1.3.4, ACT)
Infer the relationship between elements of an author’s style
in a passage, including word choice, sentence structure,
foreshadowing, flashback, figurative language, irony,
metaphor, tone/mood, symbolism, and the author’s purpose
for writing the passage (▲R7.1.4.11, R7.2.1.5, ACT)
Infer the relationship between elements of an author’s style
in a passage, including word choice, sentence structure,
foreshadowing, flashback, figurative language, irony,
metaphor, tone/mood, symbolism, and the author’s purpose
for writing the passage (▲R7.1.4.11, R7.2.1.5, ACT)
SENTENCE FLUENCY: Use effective and convincing
dialogue that sounds conversational and natural in narrative
and persuasive writing (W7.1.1.14, W7.1.4.17)
Grade 7 Grade Book
Check-Point #1 and Classroom-Based Standards
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
8/16/2010
9/20/2010
PA211
Sentence
Fluency
Pr217
Conventions Spelling
PA217
Conventions Spelling
Pr218
Conventions Paragraphs
PA218
Conventions Paragraphs
_Performance
100
SENTENCE FLUENCY: Use effective and convincing
dialogue that sounds conversational and natural in narrative
and persuasive writing (W7.1.1.14, W7.1.4.17)
_Practice
100
_Performance
100
_Practice
100
Correctly spell familiar and most unfamiliar words using
available resources, such as the dictionary and spell check,
in narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive writing
(W7.1.1.18, W7.1.2.21, W7.1.3.17, W7.1.4.20)
Correctly spell familiar and most unfamiliar words using
available resources, such as the dictionary and spell check,
in narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive writing
(W7.1.1.18, W7.1.2.21, W7.1.3.17, W7.1.4.20)
Use correct paragraph divisions to reinforce the
organizational structure in narrative, expository, and
persuasive writing (W7.1.1.19, W7.1.2.22, W7.1.4.21)
_Performance
100
Use correct paragraph divisions to reinforce the
organizational structure in narrative, expository, and
persuasive writing (W7.1.1.19, W7.1.2.22, W7.1.4.21)