Reading-7th Grade

Catholic Standards

Catholic Standards for Literature

Reading Standards for Literature

Catholic Standards for Informational Text

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Share how literature fosters both prudence and sound judgement in the human person. CSDS1

Develop empathy and compassion for a character’s crisis or choice in order to build virtue and better understand one’s own disposition and humanity. CSDS2

Display the virtues and values evident within stories that involve an ideal; take a stand for love, faith, courage, fidelity, truth, beauty, and all virtues. CSDS3

Identify with beautifully told and well-crafted works, especially those with elements of unity, harmony, and radiance of form. CSDS4

Share how literature ignites the creative imagination by presenting in rich context amazing lives and situations as told by best storytellers and intellects. CSDS5

Delight and wonder through the reading of creative, sound, and healthy stories, plays and poems. CSDS7 

Analyze literature that reflects the transmission of a Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1 

Analyze works of fiction and non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth, Beauty and Goodness. CSGS2

Analyze carefully chosen selections that strive to make known the proper nature of mankind, problems and experiences in trying to know and perfect both oneself and the world. CSGS3

Share how literature can contribute to strengthening one’s moral character. CSGS4 

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze texts that reflect the transmission of a Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze works of non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth, Beauty and Goodness. CSGS2  

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze carefully chosen selections that strive to make known the proper nature of mankind, problems and experiences in trying to know and perfect both oneself and the world. CSGS3

Students will use literary texts/materials to value how texts can contribute to strengthening one’s moral character. CSGS4

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Determine a moral theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text. Provide an objective summary of the text.

CSIS1: Identify how literature interprets the human condition, behaviors, and actions in its redeemed and unredeemed state. 

Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). 

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in literary and Biblical texts, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. 

Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet, psalms) contributes to its meaning.

CSIS5: Describe how poets and writers can use language to convey truths that are universal and transcendent.

Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

CSIS14: Analyze the author’s reasoning and discover the author’s intent. 

Compare and contrast a written story, drama, parable, or poem (including Catholic literature) to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).

CSIS2: Describe how the rich spiritual knowledge communicated through fairy tales, fables, myths, parables, and other stories is a reflection on the development of a moral imagination. 

Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

CSIS1: Identify how literature interprets the human condition, behaviors, and actions in its redeemed and unredeemed state.

By the end of the year, read, comprehend, and show an appreciation for literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, appropriately complex for the individual student

CSIS6: Analyze critical values presented in literature and the degree to which they are in accord or discord with a Catholic perspective. 

Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas including Catholic teachings influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas, events, and a student’s Catholic faith).

Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text. Provide an objective summary of the text.

CSIS8: Explain how texts assist one in transcending the limited horizon of human reality. 

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.

Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. 

CSIS14: Analyze the author’s reasoning and discover the author’s intent. 

Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.

Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).

Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts (e.g., analyze the different Gospel accounts). 

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction and show an appreciation for informational text appropriately complex for the individual student.

CSIS11: Summarize how texts can reflect the historical and sociological culture of the time period in which it was written and help us better understand ourselves and other cultures and times.