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Seventh Grade
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Writing, Grammar, and Usage
Poetry
Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama
Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English
Writing and Research
Speaking and Listening
Grammar
Spelling
Vocabulary
Poems
Elements of Poetry
Short Stories
Novels/Novellas
Elements of Fiction
Essays and Speeches
Autobiography
Drama
Literary Terms
7.E.IV.A.1
Students should learn the meaning of the following Latin phrases that are commonly used in English speech and writing: ad hoc - concerned with a particular purpose; improvised [literally, “to the thing”] bona fides - good faith; sincere, involving no deceit or fraud carpe diem - seize the day, enjoy the present caveat emptor - let the buyer beware, buy at your own risk de facto - in reality, actually existing in extremis - in extreme circumstances, especially at the point of death in medias res - in the midst of things in toto - altogether, entirely modus operandi - a method of procedure modus vivendi - a way of living, getting along persona non grata - an unacceptable or unwelcome person prima facie - at first view, apparently; self-evident pro bono publico - for the public good pro forma - for the sake of form, carried out as a matter of formality quid pro quo - something given or received in exchange for something else requiescat in pace, R I P - may he or she rest in peace [seen on tombstones] sic transit gloria mundi - thus passes away the glory of the world sine qua non - something absolutely indispensable [literally, “without which not”] sub rosa - secretly
7.E.I.A.1
Expository writing: Write nonfiction essays that describe, narrate, persuade, and compare and contrast
7.E.I.A.2
Write research essays, with attention to asking open-ended questions gathering relevant data through library and field research summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting accurately when taking notes defining a thesis (that is, a central proposition, a main idea) organizing with an outline integrating quotations from sources acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism preparing a bibliography
7.E.I.B.1
Participate civilly and productively in group discussions.
7.E.I.B.2
Give a short speech to the class that is well-organized and well-supported.
7.E.I.B.3
Demonstrate an ability to use standard pronunciation when speaking to large groups and in formal circumstances, such as a job interview.
7.E.I.C.1.1
Prepositional phrases Identify as adjectival or adverbial Identify word(s) modified by the prepositional phrase Object of preposition (note that pronouns are in objective case) Punctuation of prepositional phrases
7.E.I.C.1.2
Subject and verb Find complete subject and complete predicate Identify simple subject and simple verb (after eliminating prepositional phrases): in statements in questions in commands (you understood) with there and here Auxiliary verbs Noun of direct address Subject-verb agreement: with compound subjects with compound subjects joined by or with indefinite pronouns (for example, everyone, anyone, some, all)
7.E.I.C.1.3
Complements: Find direct and indirect objects,Review linking vs. action verbs, Predicate nominative, Predicate adjective
7.E.I.C.1.4
Appositives: Identify and tell which noun is renamed, Use of commas with appositive phrases
7.E.I.C.1.5
Participles: Identify past, present participles, Identify participial phrases, Find the noun modified, Commas with participial phrases
7.E.I.C.1.6
Gerunds and gerund phrases: Identify and tell its use in the sentence (subject, direct object, indirect object, appositive, predicate nominative, object of preposition)
7.E.I.C.1.7
Infinitives and infinitive phrases Adjective and adverb: find the word it modifies Noun: tell its use in the sentence
7.E.I.C.2.1
Clauses: Review: sentences classified by structure Simple; compound (coordinating conjunctions v. conjunctive adverbs); complex; compound-complex
7.E.I.C.2.2
Review independent (main) v. dependent (subordinate) clauses
7.E.I.C.2.3
Kinds of dependent clauses Adjective clauses Identify and tell noun modified Introductory words: relative pronouns, relative adverbs (where, when) Implied “that” Commas with nonrestrictive (nonessential) adjective clause
7.E.I.C.2.4
Adverb clauses Identify and tell the word(s) modified Subordinating conjunctions (for example, because, although, when, since, before, after, as soon as, where) Comma after introductory adverbial clause
7.E.I.C.2.5
Noun clauses: Identify and tell use in the sentence (subject, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, appositive, objective complement, noun of direct address)
7.E.I.D.1
Continue work with spelling, with special attention to commonly misspelled words, including: Achievement, despise, muscular, scholar, address, doesn’t, occasionally, shepherd, analysis, environment, offense, sincerely, anonymous, excellent, particularly, sponsor, argument, existence, persuade, succeed, beginning, grammar, politician, surprise, business, hypocrisy, prejudice, tendency, college, immediately, probably, thorough, conscience, interpret, recognize, truly control, knowledge, remembrance, women, criticism, lieutenant, responsibility, written, definite, medieval, rhyme, description, muscle, and sacrifice
7.E.I.E.1
Students should know the meaning of these Latin and Greek words that form common word roots and be able to give examples of English words that are based on them.
7.E.II.A.1
Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)
7.E.II.A.2
Because I could not stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)
7.E.II.A.3
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
7.E.II.A.4
The Chimney Sweeper (both versions from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience; William Blake)
7.E.II.A.5
The Cremation of Sam McGee (Robert Service)
7.E.II.A.6
Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
7.E.II.A.7
Fire and Ice; Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost)
7.E.II.A.8
Heritage (Countee Cullen)
7.E.II.A.9
Macavity: The Mystery Cat (T.S. Eliot)
7.E.II.A.10
The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Harlem; Life is Fine (Langston Hughes)
7.E.II.A.11
This Is Just to Say; The Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams)
7.E.II.B.1
Review: meter, iamb, rhyme scheme, free verse, couplet, onomatopoeia, alliteration
7.E.II.B.2
Stanzas and refrains
7.E.II.B.3
Forms: ballad, sonnet, lyric, narrative, limerick, haiku
7.E.II.B.4
Types of rhyme: end, internal, slant, eye
7.E.III.A.1
"The Gift of the Magi” (O. Henry)
7.E.III.A.2
“The Necklace” (Guy de Maupassant)
7.E.III.A.3
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (James Thurber
7.E.III.A.4
“The Tell-Tale Heart”; “The Purloined Letter” (Edgar Allan Poe)
7.E.III.B.1
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
7.E.III.B.2
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
7.E.III.C.1
Review aspects of plot and setting
7.E.III.C.2
Theme
7.E.III.C.3
Point of view in narration, omniscient narrator, unreliable narrator, third person limited, first person
7.E.III.C.4
Conflict: external and internal
7.E.III.C.5
Suspense and climax
7.E.III.D.1
“Shooting an Elephant” (George Orwell)
7.E.III.D.2
“The Night the Bed Fell” (James Thurber)
7.E.III.D.3
“Declaration of War on Japan” (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
7.E.III.E.1
Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
7.E.III.F.1
Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)
7.E.III.F.2
Elements of drama: Tragedy and comedy (review), Aspects of conflict, suspense, and characterization, Soliloquies and asides
7.E.III.G.1
Irony: verbal, situational, dramatic
7.E.III.G.2
Flashbacks and foreshadowing
7.E.III.G.3
Hyperbole; oxymoron; parody
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