ELA Grade 7 Pacing Guide Standards tested on Part II of TNReady: RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, RL.7.4, RL.7.5, RL.7.6, RL.7.9; RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.7.3, RI.7.4, RI.7.5, RI.7.6, RI.7.8, RI.7.9; L.7.4, L.7.5 Quarter 4 Weekly Classroom Instruction Tracker Reading Complex Text Analyzing Poetic Language and Poetic Structure and Form Literary Analysis Workshop o The Railway Train (Exemplar/Literature) o Maestro/The Desert Is My Mother/Bailando (Literature) Week 1 -­‐ 3 Choose 1 group The Rider (Lyric Poem) Seal (Concrete Poem) Haiku (Haiku) or Poetry Collection 2 Winter (Lyric Poem) Forsynthia (Concrete Poem) Haiku (Haiku and Choose 1 group Poetry Collection 1 Life (Figurative Language) Loo-­‐Wit (Figurative Language) The Courage My Mother Had (Figurative Language) or Poetry Collection 4 Mother to Son (Figurative Language) The Village Blacksmith (Figurative Language) Fog (Figurative Language) Analyzing Argumentative Texts Reading for Information: Veteran Returns, Becomes Symbol (Argument) and The Wrong Orbit: Senator Has No Legitimate Business Blasting into Space (Argument) Writing to Text Routine Writing Text Dependent Questions Weekly Journal Writing Analysis (Focus on Argument) Seal by William Jay Smith and the haiku by Buson are about parts of the natural world. Which treatment of nature is better and why? State your position. Use specific examples from the poem to justify your answer. Discuss the way in which Naomi Shihab Nye treats loneliness in The Rider. Is this an effective remedy for loneliness? Support your argument with passages from the poem. Langston Hughes chose to use dialect for the speaker’s voice in Mother to Son. Does the use of dialect in the poem help the reader to understand its meaning? • State your position. Use specific examples from the poem to justify your answer. Reading for Information: Timed Writing: Evaluation – Choose one of the editorials about John Glenn’s plans to travel in space, and write an evaluation of the piece. Tell whether the author successfully argued and supported his or her claims. Use details from the text to support your answer.
Reading Complex Text Analyzing Poetic Language and Poetic Structure and Form Week 4 -­‐ 6 Choose 1 group Poetry Collection 5 Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (Sound Devices) One (Sound Devices) Weather (Sound Devices) Poetry Collection 6 Full Fathom Five (Sound Devices) Train Time (Sound Devices) Onomatopoeia (Sound Devices) Poetry Collection 7 Annabel Lee (Sound Devices) Martin Luther King (Sound Devices) I’m Nobody (Sound Devices) Poetry Collection 8 Father William (Rhythm and Rhyme) Topping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Rhythm and Rhyme) Jim (Rhythm and Rhyme) Writing to Text Routine Writing Text Dependent Questions (After You Read) Weekly Journal Writing Analysis (Focus on Argument) Who might most enjoy hearing or reading the poem Weather? Use the understanding of your poem to explore which audience might enjoy the poem. Include words and phrases from the poem. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out contains many exaggerations. Do these exaggerations add to the poem? Defend your answer with specific examples from the poem. There is no punctuation in Train Tune. How does the lack of punctuation contribute to the understanding of the poet’s message? Should the author have used punctuation? How might the poem be different if punctuation had been used? •
In line 4 of I’m Nobody, the speaker suggests that she and the listener run the risk of being banished. Is being banished something to fear? •
Annabel Lee, Martin Luther King, and I’m Nobody all tell a story about someone. Would the same story be effective if it were told in prose form? Choose one poem and discuss how it would work better or not as well in prose form. Think about the dialogue between Father William and his son. What does this poem have to tell the modern reader about youth and old age? Is this an effective message? Comparing Literary Works: Timed Writing: Argument: Recommendation Extended text -­‐Informational Week 7 -­‐ 9 Reading Complex Text Reading for Information: Zoos: Joys or Jails? and Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos? Reading for Information: The Rhythms of Rap and Conjunction Junction Reading for Information: How to Download Ringtones for a Cell Phone and Cell Phone Warranty Reading for Information: Mongoose on the Loose and Indian Grey Mongoose Writing to Text Routine Writing Text-­‐dependent questions Weekly Journal Writing Analysis Writing Workshop: Argument: Problem and Solution Timed Writing: Argumentative Text: Editorial Narrative Writing Workshop: Narrative Text: Short Story Research Research Technology Task TNCore Resources Additional Resources •
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Assessment Task (Writing) http://tncore.org/english_language_arts/assessment_tasks/g6-­‐8.aspx Happiness Unit http://tncore.org/english_language_arts/instructional_resources/6-­‐8/text_unit_6-­‐8.aspx