Grade 7
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Language
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Reading: Informational
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Reading: Literature
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Speaking & Listening
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Writing
Arizona ELA Standard: 7.L.5.b
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
Antagonyms: Dust, Clip, and Left
Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”
Words Within Words: TROMBONE
How many words can you find within TROMBONE?
Words Within Words: SATURN
How many words can you find within Saturn?
Antonym Paths
Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?
Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.
Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives
A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!
Building Creative Analogies
We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
Synonym Graphs
So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?
Content Imperatives: Paradox
How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!