TPSD ELA Syllabus
7th Grade Advanced
Unit 1
Unit 1
Unit Title
Identity and Transformation
Unit Focus
Fiction: Determining a theme or central idea and analyzing the plot and key events to support the theme or central idea.
Nonfiction: Determining two or more central ideas in a text and analyzing how these ideas are developed through the details.
Providing an objective summary of the text.
Analyzing text in order to cite multiple pieces of textual evidence
Main Texts
Pygmalion by George Benard Shaw (novel)
Book Project
Due
Due the end of the 1st 9 weeks: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Park; After reading this book students will create a collage using pictures that represent the central message
or theme of the book. On a separate sheet of paper, students will write a descriptive title for each picture and include a sentence or two about why that picture was important
to the theme or central idea of the book.
Unit Targets
In this unit,
students will learn
these targets:
Reading
✓
✓
✓
In literature, analyze the plot and
key events to determine the theme.
In informational text, determine
multiple central ideas and analyze
how these are developed.
Compose an objective summary.
Writing
✓
✓
✓
✓
Roots to Learn
Words to Know
Introduce a topic and organize the
ideas using strategies such as
definition, classification,
compare/contrast, and cause/
effect.
Develop topic with relevant facts
and concrete details from the text.
Use transition words.
Provide a concluding statement
or section.
Language
✓
✓
✓
Identify different types of sentences
and choose which one is best to use to
signal differing relationships among
ideas. (simple sentence, compound
sentence, complex sentence and
compound-complex sentence.
Use commas to separate coordinate
adjectives.
Choose language that expresses ideas
precisely and concisely, eliminating
wordiness and redundancy.
Vocabulary
✓
✓
✓
✓
I can define and identify various
forms of figurative language (e.g.,
simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
personification, alliteration,
assonance, onomatopoeia).
I can distinguish between literal
language and figurative language.
I can infer the meaning of unknown
words using context clues
I can recognize and define common
Greek and Latin affixes and roots
(units of meaning)
✓
Week 1: hydr, aqua/aqu, mar/mer
dehydrate, hydroelectric, hydrant, aquatic, aqueduct, aquarium, aquifer, marine,
marina, maritime
✓
Week 2: vis/vid, aud, phon
visualize, vista, visionary, audible, audition, audience, auditorium, cacophony,
xylophone, phonograph
✓
Week 3: mem, ology, sci
memoir, memorialize, memorable, memento, geology, anthropology, etymology,
science, conscience, conscientious
✓
Week 4: cycl, circ/circum, centr/center
cycle, cyclical, cyclone, circumference, circuit, circumstance, circumvent, central,
concentric, eccentric
theme, central idea, summary, opinion, objective, organizational structures, formatting structures, transitions, cohesions, clause, simple sentence structure, compound
sentence structure, complex sentence structure, compound-complex sentence structure, coordinate adjectives, non-coordinate adjectives, precise, wordiness, concise,
redundancy, figures of speech, context clues, affix, root, infer