Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
September &
October
Main Concept
(General Terms)
Elements of Literature
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
RL7:3 - Analyze how particular
elements of a story or drama
interact
1 - Plot Structure,
Characterization,
Setting, and Point of
View formative
assessment.
RL7:1 - Cite several pieces of
2 - Inference and
textual evidence to support analysis context clues
of what the test says explicitly as
formative assessment
well as inferences drawn from the
text.
UEN7: S1, Obj. 3a,b, d
Obj 3a - Identify narrative plot
structure.
Obj. 3b -Describe a character's
traits as revealed by the narrator.
Vocabulary
Plot, Conflict,
Climax,
Resolution,
Character Traits,
Setting
Inference, context
clues, identify
Resources
Holt Elements
of Literature
Teacher
Resources
Obj. 3d - Identify descriptive details
and imagery that establish setting
Informative: Interaction of
individuals and ideas
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
RI7:3 - Analyze the interactions
Formative
between individuals, events, and
assessment
ideas in a text.
RI7:1 - Cite several pieces of textual
evidence to support analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well
as inferences drawn from the text.
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Individual, events, Teacher
Ideas
Resources
Potential Martin Luther
King Speech
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
Main Concept
(General Terms)
Summary of a text
Commas to separate
adjectives
Word Meaning and
Roots
End of term 1
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
W7:4 - Produce clear and coherent Summary Rubric
writing in which the development,
organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and
audience.
UEN7: S2, Obj. 1 a, b, c
Obj. 1a - Retell significant events in
sequence.
Obj. 1b - summarize essential
information from literary or
informational text.
Obj. 1c - Connect text to self.
L7:2 Demonstrate comand of the
Formative
conventions of standard English
assessment
capitalization, punctuatuion, and
spelling when writing.
L7:2a - Use a comma to separate
coordinate adjectives.
L7: 4a - Use context as clue to the
meaning of a word or phrase
L7: 4b - use common, gradeappropriate Greek or Latin affixes
and roots as clues to the meaning
of a word.
Vocabulary
Resources
Summarize
Adjectives
Holt Elements
of Language
Teacher
Resources
Holt pg. 651
Summative
assessment of all
Concepts
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
Main Concept
(General Terms)
November,
Understanding Theme
December, and
January
Points of View
Informative: Central Idea
Narrative Essay 3 paragraphs
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
RL7:2 - Determine a theme or
central idea of a text and analyze its
development over the course of
the text; provide objective
summary of the text.
UEN7: S1, Obj. 3c - Distinguish topic
from theme in literature.
RL7:6 - Analyze how an author
develops and contrasts the points
of view of different characters or
narrators in a text.
Theme, analyze
RI7:2 - Determine two or more
Formative
central ideas in a text and analyze assessment of theme,
their development over the course points of view, and
of the text; provide objective
central ideas
summary of the text.
W7:3 - Write narratives to develop Utah Write and rubric
real or imagined experiences or
events using effective technique,
relevant dscriptive details, and wellstructured event sequences
Central idea,
determine,
except,
UEN7: S2, Obj 2a, b, c - Write to
Identify and reflect on feelings to
recreate experiences.
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Vocabulary
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Resources
Holt & Teacher
resources
points of view,
distinguish,
develop, analyze,
contrast
narrative, ideas
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and content,
organization,
sentence fluency,
word choice,
conventions, voice
6 writing traits
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
Main Concept
(General Terms)
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
Vocabulary
Resources
Obj 2a - Determine audience and
purpose for extended writing.
Similies/Metaphors
Prefixes
End of 2nd
term
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Obj 2b - Relate a clear, coherent,
chronologically-sequenced
incident, event, or situation with
simple reflection.
Obj 2c - use sensory details.
UEN7: S1 Obj 3e - Identify figurative
language
L7: 4b - use common, gradeappropriate Greek or Latin affixes
and roots as clues to the meaning
of a word.
UEN7: S1 Obj. 1a - Identify common
prefixes and suffixes to determine
meaning of words
I am poem
Similie and
Metephor
I am poem
outline
Potential - The
Highwayman
formative
All prefixes and
UEN Appendix
assessments on
suffixes and roots A prefix and
prefixes, suffixes, and in list.
suffix chart
roots
Summative
assessement of all
concepts
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
January,
February and
March
Main Concept
(General Terms)
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
Topic and Claims
RI7: 9 - Analyze how two or more
authors writing about the same
topic shape their presentations of
key information by emphasizing
different evidence or advancing
different interpretations of facts
Evidence and DRAPES
RI7: 8 Trace and evaluate the
argument of specific claims in a
text, assessing whether the
reasoning is sound and the
evidence is relevant and sufficient
to support the claims.
Argumentative Paragraph
W7:1 - Write arguments to support 8 sentence
claims with clear reasons and
paragraph, Utah
relevant evidence.
Write and rubric
w7:1a - Introduce claims,
achnowledge alternate or opposing
claims, and organize the reasons
and evidenc logically
W7:1b - Support claims with logical
reasoning and relevant evidence.
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Vocabulary
Resources
Topic, evidence, Teacher
facts, claim, trace, Resources
evaluate
DRAPES
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6 traits
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
Main Concept
(General Terms)
Prepositional phrases and
clauses and compound
sentences
End of 3rd
Term
Suffixes
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
Standards/Objectives
Assessments
Vocabulary
Resources
W7:1e - provide a concluding
statement or section that follows
from and supports the argument
presented
L7: 1a - Explain the function of
Summative
Prepostion,
phrases and clauses in general and assessment of
dangling
their function in specific sentences. prepositional phrases modifiers,
compound,
complex
L7: 1b - Choose among simple,
compound, complex, and
compound -complex sentences to
signal differing relationships among
ideas
L7: 1c - Place phrases and claues
within a sentence, recognizig and
correcting misplaced and dangling
modifiers
L7: 4b - use common, gradeappropriate Greek or Latin affixes
and roots as clues to the meaning
of a word.
summative
assessment of all
concepts
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
UEN Appendix
A prefix and
suffix chart
Curriculum Map 7th Grade Level English
Month
Main Concept
(General Terms)
April, May, and CRT Review
June
Myth and Folktale OR
Poetry OR
King Arthur
Book/Movie
Informative essay
End of 4th
term
Standards/Objectives
Review 7th Grade essential skills
Assessments
CRT
RL7: 9 - Compare and contrast a
fictional portrayal of a time, place,
or character and a historical
account of the same period as a
means of understanding how
authors of fiction use or alter
history
RL 7: 7 - Compare and contrast a
written story to its audio, filmed,
staged, or multimedia version,
analyzing the effects of techniques
unique to each medium
W7: 2 - Write informative texts to Utah write rubric
examine a topic and convey ideas,
concepts, and information through
the election, organization, and
analysis of relevant content.
review of grammar
* Common Core State Standards Link
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
*UEN Common Core Link
http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=4270
Vocabulary
See Above
Resources
Everything
To be
determined
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