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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.

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

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

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.

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

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

Think Like A Philosopher

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

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.

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.)

Content Imperatives: Convergence

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

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Anyone can say a character changed. Your students will prove it: four details from the beginning, four from the end, and the two traits those details point to.

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?

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

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.

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.