Curriculum Mapping for 7^th Grade Language Arts Rattan Public Schools

Months covered:	Topics covered:	Objectives covered (based on 7^th grade standards):
August - September	Unit 4: The Elements of a short story: Review and discuss elements of a short story – character, plot, suspense, external conflict, internal conflict, complications, climax, resolution, point of view, theme, feelings, narrator and foreshadowing. Spelling Unit: Compound words, homophones, adding endings to words, and words from Spanish,. Weekly spelling tests are given. Writing Unit: The students will write in daily journals. Various writing assignments will be given such as inventing and writing a conversation, continuing a story, writing from another view point, extending the story, changing the point of view, and presenting an argument. Language and Vocabulary: Fairly unfamiliar words pulled from the week’s story which the students will be expected to memorize and write the definitions of on a weekly test. Also covered: unfamiliar words, prefixes derived from Latin, pronoun-antecedent agreement, jargon, transitional expressions, descriptions, independent and subordinate clauses, sentences and style, similes, prepositions, prepositional phrases, phonetic spelling, spelling demons, revision, and commas. Reading: Students are expected to read chosen library books silently during appointed times in class daily. The week’s stories will be read aloud to the students by the teacher, as well as the reading test over the story given weekly. Book reports are assigned to be due 6 weeks after the first day of school. They are to be written in a 5 paragraph essay form including information such as setting, characters, main events, conflict/problem, conclusion, and must include introductory paragraphs with a thesis statement and concluding paragraphs containing personal opinions about the book.	Reading/Literature Standards 1-1, 1-2a, 1-2b, 1-3d, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1a,b,c, 3-2a,b, 3-3a,b,c,d, 3-4a,b,c,d,e, 3-5a,b,c, 4-1a, 4-2a,c,d, 4-3a Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 2-3a,b,c, 2-4a,b,c,d, 2-5a,b, 2-6a,b,c, 2-7a,b,c, 2-8, 2-10 Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1c,e,f,g,i,l, 1-2a,b,c, 1-3c,d Oral Language/Listening and Speaking Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-4
October – November	Unit 1: Conflicts: Review and discuss elements of conflict, external conflict, internal conflict, suspense, foreshadowing, setting, author’s purpose, and climax. Unit 2: Characters Review and discuss characterization, motivation, suspense, dynamic character, static character, title, dramatic irony, conflict, personification, narrator, theme, exaggeration, and character traits. Spelling Unit 2: Music words, prefixes en- and ex-, prefixes dis- and de-, places and people, and prefix –ad. Weekly spelling tests. Writing Unit: Daily journal entries, writing an extension to the ending of the story, writing a dialogue in which two characters resolve a conflict, writing from another point of view, writing a humorous story, creating vivid modifiers, and describing a character. Language and Vocabulary: Conflict unit: Review and discuss context clues, synonyms, antonyms, dialogue, adjectives, jargon, adjective clauses, Spanish words, punctuating dialogue, onomatopoeia, verbs, revision, dialect, multiple meanings, participial phrases, sentence fragments, pronouns, antecedents, rules for writing dialogue, and word analogies . Characters unit: vivid adverbs, conjunctions, sentence structure, sentence variety, punctuating dialogue, dialect, oral reading, uses of the comma, prefixes in- and un-, adjectives, and word analogies. Reading: Students are expected to read chosen library books silently during appointed times in class daily. The week’s stories will be read aloud to the students by the teacher, as well as the reading test over the story given weekly. Book reports are due 6 weeks from the first day of the new nine weeks. This book report will be based on students reading a book from the Newbery list of books in our library. Book report format is the same as last 9 weeks’ report, however it will require more detail. Students will complete a self-evaluation survey to reflect on finished book report projects.	Reading/Literature Standards 1-1, 1-2a,b, 1-3b, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1a,b,c, 3-2a,b, 3-3a,b,c,d, 3-4a,b,c,d,e, 3-5a,b,c, 4-1a, 4-2a,b,c,d, 4-3a,b Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-3a,b,c, 1-4a,b,c,d, 1-5a,b, 1-6a,b,c, 1-7a,b,c, 1-8, 1-9, 1-10, 3-1a,b,c,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l, 3-2a,b,c,3-3a,b,c,d, Oral Language /Listening and Speaking Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-4 Visual Literacy Standards 1-2, 2-1
December – January	Unit 7 – Fantasy and Science Fiction Review and discuss fantasy, science fiction, imagery, quest, conflict, moral lesson, character, satire, theme, setting, details, message, irony, metamorphosis, main idea, foreshadowing, and tone. Unit 6: The Elements of Drama Review and discuss the various elements of drama including exposition, setting, conflict, external conflict, internal conflict, character, complications, climax, resolution, feeling, television, script, screenplay, teleplay, and foreshadowing. Spelling Unit 3: Adjective suffixes, spelling and pronunciation, noun suffixes, consonant and syllable patterns, and related words. Weekly spelling tests. Writing Unit: Daily journal entries, writing an original fairy tale, designing a poster, extending the story, describing a character, writing about the future, and writing an advertisement. Unit 5: Writing a diary entry and dialogue. Language and Vocabulary: images, archaic words, dialogue, weak words and clichés, context clues, adverbs, personal pronouns, infinitives and infinitive phrases, verb tenses, metamorphosis, metaphor, varying sentence structure, run-on sentences, verbs and tone, adjectives and tone, and word analogies. Reading unit: Students are expected to read chosen library books silently during appointed times in class daily. The week’s stories will be read aloud to the students by the teacher, as well as the reading test over the story given weekly. Students will also be expected to read selections from the textbook for homework.	Reading/Literature Standards 1-1, 1-2a,b, 1-3b,c,d, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1a,b,c, 3-2a,b, 3-3a,b,c,d, 3-4a,b,c,d,e, 3-5a,b,c, 4-1a,b, 4-2-a,b,c,d, 4-3a,b, 4-4a,b,c, 5-a,d,e Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 2-4a,b,cd, 2-5a,b, 2-6a,b,c, 2-7a,b,c, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 3-1a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l, 3-2,a,b,c, 3-3a,b,c,d Oral Language/Listening and Speaking Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4 Visual Literacy 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-1, 3-2
February – March	Unit 9: The Elements of Nonfiction Literary elements covered within this text are: fiction, nonfiction, personal histories, autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, personal essays, scientific inquiries, reports, feature stories, subjective vs. objective writing, history, facts, title, personal essay, conflict, internal conflict, external conflict, motivation, attitude, character, theory, opinion, narration, description, and causes and effects. Unit 10: Folktales and Myths Review and discuss folktales, motifs, fables, morals, trickster tales, how-and-why stories, tales of enchantment, stanzas, transformations, metamorphosis, character traits, lesson, and values. Spelling Unit 4: Latin roots, verb suffixes, more Latin roots, unstressed endings, and more Latin roots. Weekly spelling tests. Writing Unit: Daily journal entries, Writing about an experience, writing a letter, writing from an animal’s point of view, illustrating a folktale, writing a folktale, making up a how-and-why story, writing a fable, and expressing an opinion in a fable. Language and Vocabulary: context clues, narrative paragraphs, figures of speech, similes, descriptive paragraphs, compound nouns, dangling and misplaced modifiers, sentence fragments, complete sentences, slang, coherence, spatial order, and transitional expressions, appositives, action verbs with complements, synonyms, pronouns, onomatopoeia, allusions, subject and complements, uses of the capital letter, animal similes, and word analogies. Reading Unit: Students are expected to read chosen library books silently during appointed times in class daily. The week’s stories will be read aloud to the students by the teacher, as well as the reading test over the story given weekly. Students will also be expected to read various selections from the text independently. A book report will be assigned and students will be given 6 weeks in which time they will read a biography or an autobiography. Students will write a book report, make note cards, dress up like the character they’ve read about, and give an oral presentation based on the life of that person.	Reading/Language Standards 1-1, 1-2a,b, 1-3a,b,c,d, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1a,b,c, 3-2a,b, 3-3a,b,c,d, 3-4a,b,c,d,e, 3-5a,b,c, 4-1a,b, 4-2a,b,c,d, 4-3a,b, 4-4a,b,c, 5-1d, 5-2a,b,c,d,e Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 2-1a,b,c,d,e, 2-2a,b,c,d, 2-4a,b,c,d, 2-5a,b, 2-6a,b,c, 2-7a,b,c, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 3-1a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l, 3-2a,b,c, 3-3a,b,c,d Oral Language/Listening and Speaking Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4
April – May	Unit 5: Elements of Poetry Review and discuss imagery, figures of speech, stanza, rhythm, rhyme, refrain, narrative poems, rhythm pattern, setting, characters, meter, free verse, end rhyme, internal rhyme, rhyme scheme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, conflict, mood, repetition, tone, feelings, simile, metaphor, personification, contrasts, and puns. Spelling Unit 5: Words from French, related words, more related words, Greek word parts, number prefixes, and spelling and pronunciation. Weekly spelling tests. Writing Unit: Daily journal entries, describing an imaginary place, extending a story or poem, illustrating a poem, describing an animal in a poem, writing a cycle of haiku, writing a riddle, describing an impression, and writing rhyming lines. Language and Vocabulary: Slang, denotation, connotations, multiple meanings, context clues, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, repetition, rhyme, punctuating dialogue, prefixes, related words, first-person pronouns, capital letters, homonyms, figures of speech, and word analogies. Reading Unit: Students are expected to read chosen library books silently during appointed times in class daily. The week’s stories will be read aloud to the students by the teacher, as well as the reading test over the story given weekly. Students will be required to memorize and recite 200 lines of poetry within a span of 6 weeks. The poetry must be recited before the class.	Reading/Literature Standards 1-1, 1-2a,b, 1-3a,b,c,d, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-1a,b,c, 3-2a,b, 3-3a,b,c,d, 3-4a,b,c,d,e, 3-5a,b,c, 4-1a, 4-2c,d, 4-3a,b,c, 4-4a,b,c Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 2-4a,b,c, 2-5a,b, 2-6a,b,c, 2-7a,b,c, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 3-1a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l, 3-2a,b,c, 3-3a,b,c,d Oral Language/Listening and Speaking Standards 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4