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Grade 7

• Language

  • 7.L.1
  • 7.L.2.a
  • 7.L.2.b
  • 7.L.2
  • 7.L.3.a
  • 7.L.3
  • 7.L.4
  • 7.L.4.b
  • 7.L.4.c
  • 7.L.5.b
  • 7.L.5.c
  • 7.L.5
  • 7.L.6

• Reading: Informational

  • 7.RI.1
  • 7.RI.2
  • 7.RI.3
  • 7.RI.4
  • 7.RI.6
  • 7.RI.7
  • 7.RI.8
  • 7.RI.9
  • 7.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 7.RL.1
  • 7.RL.2
  • 7.RL.3
  • 7.RL.4
  • 7.RL.5
  • 7.RL.6
  • 7.RL.9
  • 7.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 7.SL.1
  • 7.SL.1.c
  • 7.SL.2
  • 7.SL.3
  • 7.SL.4
  • 7.SL.5
  • 7.SL.6

• Writing

  • 7.W.1.a
  • 7.W.1
  • 7.W.1.b
  • 7.W.1.c
  • 7.W.2.a
  • 7.W.2.c
  • 7.W.2
  • 7.W.3.a
  • 7.W.3.b
  • 7.W.3.c
  • 7.W.3.d
  • 7.W.3.e
  • 7.W.3
  • 7.W.4
  • 7.W.5
  • 7.W.7
  • 7.W.8
  • 7.W.9.a
  • 7.W.9
  • 7.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 7.RL.3

Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Halloween Problems and Solutions

When we try to solve a problem, sometimes we end up creating new problems. Which lead to new solutions. Which lead to new problems.

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Think Like A Historian

Here’s how effects be causes and causes can be effects!

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Writing Sample: A Christmas Carol (Cold)

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Elements of The Fantasy Genre

Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?