English+7

** [|Click here to return to Pacing Guide] [|Click here to return to YAAG]  ||  ·  conventions of genre may dictate elements of a text.  ·  writers make conscious choices regarding language, including precise, accurate content vocabulary.  ·  writers purposefully use text features to convey and flag important ideas, and a skillful reader uses these to efficiently find and prioritize information.  ·  texts that demonstrate or reflect upon knowledge often incorporate technical information and/or graphic representations of information.  ·  transitions must be chosen carefully to fit the purpose, subject, and audience, lend clarity to writing, and do not interrupt or “jar” the reader or listener.  ·  a reader is supported through text by engaging leads, logical flow of ideas, a purposeful conclusion, effective punctuation, and smooth transitions; a writer makes this happen.  ·  not all ideas have equal importance in any given text.  ·  the validity or merit of an idea depends upon the quality of support.  ·  identifying parts of speech provides a set of tools to improve and revise writing and speaking.  ·  punctuation supports a reader through text, and changes in punctuation can significantly change meaning.  ·  readers, listeners, and viewers constantly make inferences about word meaning and intent.  ·  a precise definition is not always necessary to understanding overall meaning. || ** Ess ential Questions: **  ·  In what ways has this author used organizational features and details to create clear meaning?  ·  What sorts of text features are helpful in determining main idea?  ·  How am I using text features effectively as I read? As I write?  ·  How does writing to demonstrate learning or to reflect on learning differ from descriptive writing? How are they the same? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  What does it mean to “read like a writer”? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How might I best organize and demonstrate my thinking about a topic? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How might a graphic organizer be used to plan writing and/or as part of the written text? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How do I draw a reader into a text? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  What makes a conclusion memorable? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How do I know when I have written “enough”? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How do I know that I have supported my message effectively? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  How does punctuation clarify meaning? <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  Why is standard English important? When might it be less important? || __ Writing __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  characteristics and components of writing to reflect and to describe. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  how purpose influences choice of genre and mode. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  a variety of strategies for organizing text. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  a wide variety of transitional words and phrases. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  methods for writing a good lead and a satisfying ending. __ Reading ____ and Research __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  strategies for determining importance and determining main idea or essential message. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  difference between stated and implied information. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  importance of recognizing fact and opinion in determining main idea. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  various text features. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  methods writers use for supporting ideas—reasons, details, facts, graphs, pictures, charts, captions, etc. __ Conventions __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  when to use a period, exclamation point, or question mark at the end of a sentence. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  basic parts of speech. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  uses of commas. __ Word Study __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  several kinds of context clues—//synonym, antonym, appositive phrase, definition/restatement.// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  content area roots. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  relevant academic vocabulary. || ** Students will be able to… ** __ Writing __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  analyze samples of writing genres in order to: o  articulate characteristic and components; o  utilize characteristic and components in own writing; o  produce a variety of texts in multiple genres that reflect and/or describe. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  analyze a prompt for purpose, subject, and audience and write in appropriate mode and length. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  demonstrate learning through technical forms of text, including graphic organizers, dialectical journals, etc., that summarize, organize, and convey thinking. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  clearly articulate learning processes through reflective writing. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  utilize the writing process fluidly to meet a goal. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  identify and generate effective topic sentences. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  write an effective introduction for expository text that illustrates  the purpose of the writing while  inv  iting  a reader into the text. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  write a meaningful concluding sentence or paragraph. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  use effective transitional expressions. __ Reading ____ and Research __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  identify main idea and supporting details in a text by   o   utilizing key words and phrases that signal important ideas. o  locating and communicating examples that support the main idea or essential message in a text. o  using text features—chapter preview and summary, bold print, and appendices—to locate information. o  coding text as a way to hold thinking. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  express main idea and supporting details by   o   identifying and explaining author’s purpose, citing evidence from text. o  representing relationships between main idea and supporting information with graphic organizers or through other methods. o  summarizing information. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  articulate sequence of events, especially those in chronological order. __ Conventions __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  make usage choices that support meaning, including appropriate verb forms and tenses and pronoun/antecedent agreement. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  use helping verbs intentionally, correctly, and sparingly. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  continue to use commas correctly in a series, in dates, in dialogue, and in direct address. __ Word Study __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  utilize context clues to approximate definitions. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  use roots to make meaning of unfamiliar words, especially in content area reading. || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  genre, mode, reflective, descriptive, transition, summarize, analyze, lead, conclusion, fact/opinion, inference, synonym, antonym, appositive phrase, definition/restatement || ** Cross-content ** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · Howdy! How are you>?? || ** Other Evidence: ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·   || [|For Instruction and Resources, click here to return to Pacing Guide] || Here's a place for English 7!
 * ** This is an organizational tool to help plan instruction around the pacing guides.
 * ** STAGE 1 - Desired Results ** ||
 * ** Established Goals: ** //Standards/Benchmarks//
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">1.c (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Determine the main ideas or essential message in a text.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">1.f (RED **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> Find support in the text for main idea.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">2(RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">2.a (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Write in a variety of genres such as narrative, expository, or descriptive for various audiences and purposes.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #ff9900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">2.c (YELLOW) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Organize writing so that it has an inviting introduction, a logical arrangement of ideas, and a satisfying conclusion.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">2.d ****<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> (BLUE) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Use transitions to link ideas.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">3.a (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Identify parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">3.b (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Use standard English usage in writing, including subject/verb agreement, pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and homophones.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">3. f ****<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Punctuate correctly (for example, apostrophes, quotation marks, end marks, and commas).
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">5.a (RED) **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Use organizational features of printed text to locate information. ||
 * ** Students will understand **// **that**… //
 * ** Students will know… **
 * ** Vocabulary ** ||
 * ** Content **
 * ** STAGE 2 - Assessment Evidence ** ||
 * ** Performance Tasks: **
 * ** STAGE 3 - Learning Plan ** ||
 * ** Learning Activities: **