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| MCHCS
Standards Checklist - Language
Arts
- Seventh Grade |
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| 1st | 2nd
| 3rd | 4th
| 5th | 6th
| 7th | 8th |
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language arts content standards describe skills, knowledge,
and abilities all students should be able to master at
specific grade levels. Language skills are essential tools
because they serve as the basis for future learning and
career development. They enrich, foster responsible citizenship,
and secure our collective wisdom as a nation. |
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Literature |
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Read a minimum of 15 grade-level-books of
various genres, including 4-6 from the approved
list. |
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Reading
Comprehension |
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Understand and analyze the differences in
structure and purpose between various categories
of informational materials:
Textbooks.
Newspapers.
Instructional Manuals.
Signs.
Locate information by using a variety of consumer,
workplace, and public documents.
Write a report using the information.
Document your information in a Bibliography.
Analyze text that uses the cause-and-effect
organizational pattern.
Identify the action and its relation to the
story.
Identify the reactions that take place.
Identify and trace the development of an author's
argument, point of view, or perspective in
text. |
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Literary
Response and Analysis |
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Identify events:
That advance the plot.
Determine how each event explains past or
present actions.
Foreshadows future actions.
In a written report analyze:
Characterization as shown through a character's
thoughts, words speech patterns, and actions.
The narrator's description.
The thoughts, words, and actions of other
characters. |
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Writing
Strategies and Skills |
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Use the writing process to a create 500-700
word multi-paragraph composition with:
Transition words and expressions between sentences
to clarify and emphasize important ideas.
Outlining and summarizing used to organize
drafts.
Precise word choice.
Identify pronouns and their references/antecedents.
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Writing
Applications |
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Write responses to literature.
Write research reports.
Write expository compositions.
Write persuasive compositions.
Write fictional or autobiographical narratives
that:
Use all elements of plot line (beginning,
conflict, rising action, climax, and point
of view).
Develop major and minor characters and a definite
setting.
Use a range of narrative devices (specific
movements, gestures, and expressions).
Write summaries of text that:
Use original (paraphrased) wording and direct
quotation (not to exceed 20% of text) to convey
information.
Generalize about underlying meaning, not just
superficial details. |
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Writing
Conventions |
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Use relative clauses correctly.
Place modifiers (words and phrases) correctly.
Use active voice verbs generally; use passive
voice sparingly and only when appropriate.
Identify and use infinitives and participles.
Make pronouns and antecedents agree; clarify
pronoun references. |
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Listening
and Speaking |
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Evaluate the content of oral communication.
Determine the speaker's attitude toward a
subject.
Respond to persuasive messages with questions,
challenges, or affirmations.
Provide constructive feedback to speaker concerning
the logic of a speech's content, delivery
and overall impact upon the listener.
Analyze the effect on the viewer of images,
text, and sound in electronic journalism (e.g.,
TV); identify the techniques used to achieve
the effects in each instance studied.
Deliver narrative presentations:
Establish a context, standard plot line (having
a beginning, conflict, rising actions, and
climax), and point of view.
Describe major and minor characters and setting.
Use a variety of appropriate delivery techniques
such as dialogue, suspense, and using action
(e.g., movement, gestures, and expressions).
Deliver oral summaries of articles and books:
Include main ideas of event or article and
most significant details.
Use student's own words, except for quotes
from sources.
Convey a thorough understanding of sources,
not just superficial details. |
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