-- Recognize theme in a story or book, and write about one or more themes, using support from the text.
Write an introductory paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
Revise and edit. (Especially use commonly confused words correctly, and create complete sentences.)
-- Read a novel of your choice on your own in one of these genres: historical or multicultural.
Record facts about the real world that you learn from the fictional book, and research more facts from nonfiction materials from the Internet and books. Present the facts from your research using Informal Citation.
-- Read a nonfiction book of your choice on your own.
-- Be able to recognize and use the seventh grade external text features: headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of content:
External Text Features
-- Create an external text feature for your individual nonfiction book: a timeline, who's who, what's where (annotated list of locations), glossary, subject index or another feature you propose and the teacher approves.
-- Work cooperatively as a group to read and discuss a nonfiction book (Ice Story) in class and together create external text features for your book.
-- Begin to recognize the internal text structures: chronological, sequence, and description.
Review simile and metaphor, and the difference between literal and figurative.
Use correct subject-verb agreement with nouns and verbs, and begin to understand correct agreement in special situations. (For example: "There are things I don't understand." "Each of the students wants a new pencil.")
Students will also consider issues concerning racism, other forms of prejudice, forgiveness, identity, courage, etc.
