English Preface Grade 7

Language
1. Conduct structured small and large group discussion.







Composition

1. Write with focus, logical development, and supporting detail.

2. Select appropriate genres, reasoning, and style for specific audiences.

3. Demonstrate the ability to revise writing by improving organization, content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice.

4. Use appropriate standard English conventions, such as structure, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

5. Use study skills such as questions, notes, summarizing, précis writing, and outlining.

6. Use open-ended research questions, sources of information, and appropriate research methods.

7. Develop and use rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria for final versions of written projects.

	Identify assumptions.
	Recognize point of view.
	Prepare and deliver persuasive speech within prescribed limits.
	Relate slang and jargon to formal/informal patterns of speech.
	Use correctly synonyms, antonyms and homographs.
	Use correctly parts of speech and types of sentences.

	Demonstrate ability to take notes on presentations as well as prepare report (research with oral presentation by student report-writer).
	Produce multi-paragraph compositions of the following types:

- Response to literature (analysis with documentation).

- Expository (classification; explaining a process).

- Narrative (personal experience - third person, from someone else's point of view).

- Creative (traditional multicultural forms).

- Letter (of inquiry; of follow-up).

- Persuasive (opinion, acknowledging both sides of an issue).

Use the following English language conventions:

- Paragraph format.

- Phrases.

- Punctuation (colons and semicolons).

- Complex sentence structures.

- Five-paragraph essay.

- Parts of speech.

Edit and revise, concentrating on Grade 7 English language conventions in accordance with rubrics.

	Demonstrate an understanding of personification.
	Describe and correlate action/sequence/causation.
	Identify the characteristics of nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry.
	Compare/contrast themes, settings, characters from literature.
	Make an analogy.
	Make a hypothesis based on reading.
	Use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots as well as context clues to understand specialized vocabulary.
	Demonstrate an understanding of alliteration and idiomatic speech.
	Give examples of sound devices in poetry (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme).

	Recognize research sources that may be too broad or too narrow.
	Analyze and describe the effect of text and image on audience's emotions/attitudes.
	Identify and explain the effective use of music.

Literature
1. Demonstrate an ability to decode, understand, and use new words.

2. Identify main idea in what is heard, read, or viewed.

3. Demonstrate an understanding of different genres.

4. Identify, analyze, and apply theme, using evidence to support ideas.

5. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of fiction, using evidence to support ideas.

6. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of nonfiction, using evidence to support ideas.

7. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure, elements, and theme of poetry, using evidence to support ideas.

8. Identify and analyze how words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone.

9. Compare/contrast a variety of cultural myths and narratives.

10. Interpret literary works, nonfiction, film, and media.

11. Present effective dramatic readings, recitations, and performances for a variety of audiences.
Media

1. Obtain information from a variety of media and evaluate the quality.

2. Explain how traditional forms are modified for electronic media.

3. Design and create coherent media productions with focus, detail, and consideration of audience and purpose.