Unit of Study 1
7th grade
Quarter 1
Reading Literature Content Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment Additional Resources
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
Story elements
Plot
Point of View
Setting
Conflict
Characters
Climax
Mood
Analysis
Denotative
Connotative
Genre
Theme
Cite
Key Individual (flip chart vocab)
Analysis
Introduction:
“Bad Case of the Stripes”
Active Reading
Skills on page 12
“Little Engine that Could”
Tier 3 Content Vocabulary:
“The Last Dog” pg.
44
RL1: I can define cite and cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and analysis of the
text.
RL2: I can determine a theme of the text.
RL3: I can analyze how elements of a story interact
(setting affect characters, etc. )
RL4: I can determine figurative and connotative
meanings of words and phrases based on how they
are used in the text.
RL6: I can define point of view.
RL10: I can read and comprehend literature at a
seventh grade level.
“Love You Forever”
“Shells”­pg 13­14
“Leo the Lightning Bug”
Parts of a Story­ pg
24­27
“Dinner Party”­pg
28­29
“Seventh Grade”
­pg 30­38
“Rikki­Tikki­Tavi”
“Can Animals Be
Brave?”
“Snake Safari”
.
Unit of Study 1
7th grade
Quarter 1
Reading Informational Text
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
Article of the week
RI1: I can cite several pieces of
textual evidence that strongly
support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Academic Vocabulary:
Author’s purpose
Point of View
Explanatory
Argumentative
Informational
RI4: I can determine the meaning
of unknown words.
I can define figurative language.
I can define connotative meaning.
I can define technical meaning.
I can explain how specific words
impact meaning and tone.
RI6: I can determine point of view
in a text.
I can determine the author’s
purpose for writing a text.
Additional Resources
Article of the Week
http://vms.vale.k12.or.us/articles­w
eek
Scope Magazine: February 11,
2013
I can explain how an author
distinguishes his/her position from
another author.
Unit of Study 2
7th grade
Quarter 1
Reading Information Content Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RL1: I can cite textual evidence that strongly
supports my inferences and analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
RL2: I can determine two or more central ideas
and analyze their development over the course of
the text.
I can provide an objective summary of the text.
RL10: I can read and comprehend non­fiction
writing at the seventh grade level.
objective summary
sequence
summary
key detail/idea
central idea
key event
Extended Piece: “Exploring the
Titanic”
“Exploring the Titanic”
Tier 3 Content Vocabulary:
Unit of Study 2
7th grade
Quarter 1
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RL2: I can give an objective/unbiased
summary.
unbiased
“You Can’t Take It With You”
RL10: I can read and comprehend
literature at a seventh grade level.
Additional Resources
“Young Arthur”
“Brer Possum’s Dilemma”
Additional Resources
Unit of Study 3
7th grade
Quarter 2
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
Additional Resources
RL1: I can cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
Academic Vocabulary:
Hyperbole
Simile
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Figure of Speech
Assonance
Form
Structure
Sensory Language/Imagery
Verse
Stanza
Inference
“Highwayman”
“Charge of the Light Brigade”
“The Scholarship Jacket”
Collection of children stories
RL4: I can define figurative language
● Personification
● Simile
● Metaphor
● Hyperbole
● Onomatopoeia
● Alliteration
● Assonance
I can analyze the impact rhyme or
repetition of sound on a particular part
of a text.
I can explain the impact of figurative
language on a particular part or a
literary piece.
RL5: I can explain how poetic or
dynamic structure affects the meaning.
Tier 3 Vocabulary:
“Cremation of Sam McGee”
Unit of Study 4
7th grade
Quarter 2
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
Additional Resources
RL1:I can cite textual evidence that
Tier 2: Academic Vocabulary:
Compare
Contrast
Audiovisual techniques
Drama
Multimedia
Lighting
Sound
Camera angle
Focus
Film
Scene
Color
“A Christmas Carol”
Play at Fox Theatre
Media Study of “A Christmas
Carol” pg­146.
Disney’s “Christmas Carol”
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
RL2: I can determine the theme of a
text.
I can analyze the development of a
theme throughout a text.
RL3: I can analyze how elements of a
story interact (setting affect
characters,etc.)
RL7: I can define compare and
contrast.
I can explain the similarities and
differences between a written work and
an audio/visual presentation of the
same work.
I can analyze the effects of the
techniques that are unique to
portraying various types of media.
RL10: I can read and comprehend
literature at a seventh grade level.
Life and Times of Charles
Dickens­­READ magazine.
Unit of Study 5
7th grade
Quarter 3
Reading Informational Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RI1: I can cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
RI2: I can determine two or more
central ideas and analyze their
development over the course of the
text.
RI3: I can analyze interactions
between individuals, events, or ideas in
a text.
RI4: I can determine the meaning of
unknown words.
I can define figurative language.
I can define connotative meaning.
I can define technical meaning.
I can explain how specific words
impact meaning and tone.
RI6: I can determine the author’s point
of view in a text.
I can determine the author’s purpose
for writing a text.
RI7: I can define compare and
contrast.
I can I can explain the similarities and
multimedia
visual
audio
print media
compare
contrast
Tier 3 Vocabulary:
Additional Resources
“Noble Experiment”
Video clip­­in textbook
http://static.schoolrack.com/files/1
82435/483739/The%2BNoble%2B
Experiment.pdf
difference between a written work and
an audio/video/or multimedia work.
I can analyze how a particular medium
affects how a subject is portrayed.
RL10: I can comprehend nonfiction
writing at a seventh grade level.
Unit of Study 6
7th grade
Quarter 3
Reading Informational Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RI1: I can cite textual evidence that Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
strongly support my inferences
and analysis of the text.
sufficient support
relevant support
RI6: I can determine the author’s argument
point of view in a text.
claim
evidence
I can determine the author’s
interpretation
purpose for writing a text.
I can explain how an author
distinguishes his/her position from
another author.
RI8:I can trace and evaluate the
argument and claims in a text.
I can determine if the support is
relevant.
“Why Work Out?”
“The Promise”
“Pro Athletes’ Salaries Aren’t
Overly Exorbitant”
“Athletes Get Paid Too Much”
“Why We Shouldn’t Go to Mars”
“Remarks at the Dedication of the
Aerospace Medical Health Center.”
Additional Resources
I can determine if the support is
sufficient.
RI9: I can explain the difference
between the presentation of
evidence in two or more written
works on the same topic.
I can explain the difference
between the interpretation of facts
in two or more written works on
the same topic.
Unit of Study 7
7th grade
Quarter 3
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
Additional Resources
“Charles”
“Retrieved Reformation”
Choice Books:
● Wonder
● Full Tilt
● Tangerine
● Tuck Everlasting
● Code Talkers
● Face on the Milk Carton
● Lottery Rose
● Always War
RL1: I can cite textual evidence
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
that strongly support my
inferences and analysis of the text. Characterization
Character motivation
RL2: I can determine the theme of traits
a text.
static
dynamic
I can analyze the development of
the theme throughout a text.
RL3:I can analyze how elements
of a story interact (setting affect
characters, etc.)
RL6: I can explain the differences
and similarities of characters
points of view.
I can explain how the author
develops the characters point of
view.
I can define characterization.
Unit of Study 8
7th grade
Quarter 4
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RL1: I can cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
RL2: I can determine the theme of a
text.
I can analyze the development of the
theme throughout a text.
RL3:I can analyze how elements of a
story interact (setting affect
characters, etc.)
RL4: I can determine the figurative and
connotative meaning of words and
See previous terms.
Additional Resources
The Giver
Son
Truman Show
phrases based on how they are used
in the text.
RL7: I can analyze the effects of
techniques used such as lighting,
sound, color, or camera focus and
angles in a film.
RL10: I can comprehend many genres
of literature at a seventh grade level.
Unit of Study 9
7th grade
Quarter 4
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RL1: I can cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
RL2: I can determine the theme of a
text.
I can analyze the development of the
theme throughout a text.
RL3:I can analyze how elements of a
story interact (setting affect
characters, etc.)
RL4: I can determine the figurative and
connotative meaning of words and
phrases based on how they are used
historical account
fictional portrayal
time
place
alters
Additional Resources
Soldier’s Heart
in the text.
RL9: I can explain the similarities and
differences between a fictional and
historical account.
I can explain how an author uses or
alters history.
RL10: I can comprehend many genres
of literature at a seventh grade level.
Unit of Study 9
7th grade
Quarter 4
Reading Literature Content
Objectives
Vocabulary
Textbook Alignment
RI1: I can cite textual evidence that
strongly support my inferences and
analysis of the text.
Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary:
I can make inferences.
RI3:I can explain how people, ideas
and situations interact in a text.
RI4: I can determine the figurative,
connotative, or technical meaning of
words or phrases in a grade 7 text.
RI5: I can analyze the structure an
author uses to organize a text.
structure
organization of a text
Additional Resources
Civil War Info
I can explain how major sections of a
text contribute to the development of
the whole.
RI10: I can comprehend nonfiction
writing at a seventh grade level.