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Grade 7

• Strand 1

  • 7.1.A
  • 7.1.B
  • 7.1.C
  • 7.1.D

• Strand 2

  • 7.2.A
  • 7.2.B
  • 7.2.C

• Strand 3

  • 7.3

• Strand 4

  • 7.4

• Strand 5

  • 7.5.A
  • 7.5.B
  • 7.5.C
  • 7.5.D
  • 7.5.E
  • 7.5.F
  • 7.5.G
  • 7.5.H
  • 7.5.I

• Strand 6

  • 7.6.A
  • 7.6.B
  • 7.6.C
  • 7.6.D
  • 7.6.E
  • 7.6.F
  • 7.6.G
  • 7.6.H
  • 7.6.I

• Strand 7

  • 7.7.A
  • 7.7.B
  • 7.7.C
  • 7.7.D

• Strand 8

  • 7.8.A
  • 7.8.B
  • 7.8.C
  • 7.8.D
  • 7.8.D.i
  • 7.8.D.ii
  • 7.8.D.iii
  • 7.8.E
  • 7.8.E.i
  • 7.8.E.ii
  • 7.8.E.iii
  • 7.8.F

• Strand 9

  • 7.9.A
  • 7.9.B
  • 7.9.C
  • 7.9.D
  • 7.9.E
  • 7.9.F
  • 7.9.G

• Strand 10

  • 7.10.A
  • 7.10.B
  • 7.10.B.i
  • 7.10.B.ii
  • 7.10.C
  • 7.10.D
  • 7.10.D.i
  • 7.10.D.ii
  • 7.10.D.iii
  • 7.10.D.iv
  • 7.10.D.v
  • 7.10.D.vi
  • 7.10.D.vii
  • 7.10.D.viii
  • 7.10.D.ix
  • 7.10.E

• Strand 11

  • 7.11.A
  • 7.11.B
  • 7.11.C
  • 7.11.D

• Strand 12

  • 7.12.A
  • 7.12.B
  • 7.12.C
  • 7.12.D
  • 7.12.E
  • 7.12.F
  • 7.12.G
  • 7.12.H
  • 7.12.H.i
  • 7.12.H.ii
  • 7.12.I
  • 7.12.J

TEKS ELA Standard: 7.7.B

analyze how characters’ qualities influence events and resolution of the conflict

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 6

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.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

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

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8

Think Like A Philosopher

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

Gr 2-8

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.

Gr 1-6

More Specific than “Smart”

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Gr 1-8

Content Imperatives: Convergence

Add complexity by considering how multiple factors 🔄 Converge within one topic.

Gr 2, 5, 6, 7, 8

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.

Gr 1-8

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

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

Gr 1-8

Motivation and Moral Development

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

Gr 2-8

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Better Stories Part 2: Types of Conflict

If your students’ stories are packed with endless ninja fights or arguments between frenemies, it’s time to expose them to a wider range of conflicts.

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.

Gr 1-8