IXL skill plan | 7th grade plan for StudySync ELA

Skill plan for StudySync ELA - 7th grade

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1	Unit 1 Conflicts and Clashes
Reading and Writing
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi		1. Analyze short stories 2. Find words using context 3. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1. Analyze short stories 2. Find words using context 3. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

The Big Idea: When do differences become conflicts?
The Big Idea: When do differences become conflicts?


The Wise Old Woman		1. Determine the themes of short stories
The Wise Old Woman
1. Determine the themes of short stories

Woodsong		1. Identify the author's purpose
Woodsong
1. Identify the author's purpose

Nimona		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Nimona
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts

Paired Readings: Stargirl, Seventh Grade		1. Identify story elements 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts
Paired Readings: Stargirl, Seventh Grade
1. Identify story elements 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street		1. Identify text structures
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
1. Identify text structures

The Skin I'm In		1. Identify the narrative point of view
The Skin I'm In
1. Identify the narrative point of view

Paired Readings: Mad, In the Year 1974, Thank You, M'am		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Paired Readings: Mad, In the Year 1974, Thank You, M'am
1. Match the quotations with their themes
Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Draft
1. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Revise		1. Order adjectives
Revise
1. Order adjectives

Edit and Publish		1. Words with re- 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Use the correct frequently confused word
Edit and Publish
1. Words with re- 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Use the correct frequently confused word
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Sentence fragments 1. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
Grammar
Sentence fragments 1. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

2	Unit 2 Highs and Lows
Reading and Writing
Big Idea: What do we learn from love and loss?
Big Idea: What do we learn from love and loss?


Annabel Lee		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Annabel Lee
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source

Paired Readings: My Mother Pieced Quilts, Museum Indians		1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Paired Readings: My Mother Pieced Quilts, Museum Indians
1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

The Walking Dance		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts
The Walking Dance
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts

Second Estrangement
Second Estrangement


No Dream Too High: Simone Biles		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
No Dream Too High: Simone Biles
1. Determine the main idea of a passage

The Highway Man		1. Label the rhyme scheme
The Highway Man
1. Label the rhyme scheme

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy		1. Match causes and effects in informational texts
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
1. Match causes and effects in informational texts

Paired Readings: A Christmas Carol, Tangerine, My Mother Really Knew
Paired Readings: A Christmas Carol, Tangerine, My Mother Really Knew

Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		Thesis statements 1. Identify thesis statements Organize argumentative wrriting 2. Organize information by topic Reasons and relevant evidence 3. Choose evidence to support a claim
Draft
Thesis statements 1. Identify thesis statements Organize argumentative wrriting 2. Organize information by topic Reasons and relevant evidence 3. Choose evidence to support a claim

Revise		Transitions 1. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns 2. Choose the best transition Formal style 3. Which sentence is more formal?
Revise
Transitions 1. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns 2. Choose the best transition Formal style 3. Which sentence is more formal?

Edit and Publish		Adjective clauses 1. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns 2. Identify adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives Noun clauses 4. Is it a phrase or a clause? Complex sentences 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Edit and Publish
Adjective clauses 1. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns 2. Identify adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives Noun clauses 4. Is it a phrase or a clause? Complex sentences 5. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Simple, compound, and complex sentences 1. Identify dependent and independent clauses 2. Commas with compound and complex sentences Essential and nonessential clauses 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements
Grammar
Simple, compound, and complex sentences 1. Identify dependent and independent clauses 2. Commas with compound and complex sentences Essential and nonessential clauses 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

3	Unit 3 Chasing the Impossible
Reading and Writing
Big Idea: What makes a dream worth pursuing?		1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Big Idea: What makes a dream worth pursuing?
1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

We Beat the Street		1. Positive and negative connotation
We Beat the Street
1. Positive and negative connotation

The First Americans		1. Compare passages for tone
The First Americans
1. Compare passages for tone

Paired Readings: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, The People Could Fly		1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects
Paired Readings: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, The People Could Fly
1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects

All Together Now		1. Trace an argument 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts
All Together Now
1. Trace an argument 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts

Paired Readings: Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights, Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward, Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, July 17, 1903		1. Identify the narrative point of view
Paired Readings: Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights, Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward, Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, July 17, 1903
1. Identify the narrative point of view

Before We Were Free		1. Identify sensory details
Before We Were Free
1. Identify sensory details

Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now		1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 3. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational
Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now
1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 3. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational

Responses to "Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now"		1. Compare information from two texts
Responses to "Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now"
1. Compare information from two texts
Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic
Draft
1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic

Revise		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Which sentence is more formal?
Revise
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Which sentence is more formal?

Edit and Publish		1. Identify adverbs 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Edit and Publish
1. Identify adverbs 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Types of sentences 1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Subjects and predicates 2. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence 3. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 4. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence Commas with compound sentences 5. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Grammar
Types of sentences 1. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Subjects and predicates 2. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence 3. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 4. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence Commas with compound sentences 5. Commas with compound and complex sentences

4	Unit 4 Moment of Truth
Reading and Writing
Big Idea: How can one event change everything?		1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Big Idea: How can one event change everything?
1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888		1. Classify figures of speech
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
1. Classify figures of speech

Hitting big league fastball 'clearly impossible'		1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Hitting big league fastball 'clearly impossible'
1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope		1. Identify supporting details in informational texts
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
1. Identify supporting details in informational texts

Paired Readings: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Fever 1793		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Paired Readings: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Fever 1793
1. Compare two texts with different genres

Harrison Bergeron		1. Analyze short stories 2. Analogies 3. Analogies: challenge
Harrison Bergeron
1. Analyze short stories 2. Analogies 3. Analogies: challenge

The Last Human Light (from "What If?")		1. Use dictionary entries 2. Use dictionary definitions 3. Use thesaurus entries 4. Identify text structures
The Last Human Light (from "What If?")
1. Use dictionary entries 2. Use dictionary definitions 3. Use thesaurus entries 4. Identify text structures

Paired Readings: The Power of Student Peer Leaders, The Three Questions, The Tequila Worm
Paired Readings: The Power of Student Peer Leaders, The Three Questions, The Tequila Worm


Barrio Boy		1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Barrio Boy
1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		Thesis statements 1. Identify thesis statements Organizing informative writing 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest Supporting details 3. Choose evidence to support a claim
Draft
Thesis statements 1. Identify thesis statements Organizing informative writing 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest Supporting details 3. Choose evidence to support a claim

Revise		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Suggest appropriate revisions
Revise
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Suggest appropriate revisions

Edit and Publish		Misplaced and dangling modifiers 1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Commas between coordinate adjectives 4. Commas with coordinate adjectives Commonly misspelled words 5. Correct errors in everyday use
Edit and Publish
Misplaced and dangling modifiers 1. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 2. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 3. Are the modifiers used correctly? Commas between coordinate adjectives 4. Commas with coordinate adjectives Commonly misspelled words 5. Correct errors in everyday use
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Locating the subject 1. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence Subject-verb agreement 2. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement Pronouns 3. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 5. Identify vague pronoun references
Grammar
Locating the subject 1. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence Subject-verb agreement 2. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement Pronouns 3. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 5. Identify vague pronoun references

5	Unit 5 Test of Time
Reading and Writing
Big Idea: Why do we still read myths and folktales?		1. Describe the difference between related words
Big Idea: Why do we still read myths and folktales?
1. Describe the difference between related words

Aesop's Fables		1. Determine the themes of short stories
Aesop's Fables
1. Determine the themes of short stories

Paired Readings: Hunger Games, The Classical Roots of the "The Hunger Games", The Cruel Tribute (from "Old Greek Stories"), The Invisible One (Algonquin Cinderella)		1. Draw inferences from a text
Paired Readings: Hunger Games, The Classical Roots of the "The Hunger Games", The Cruel Tribute (from "Old Greek Stories"), The Invisible One (Algonquin Cinderella)
1. Draw inferences from a text

The Other Side of the Sky		1. Determine the main idea of a passage
The Other Side of the Sky
1. Determine the main idea of a passage

Paired Readings: The Story of Anniko, Icarus and Daedalus		1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 2. Identify sensory details
Paired Readings: The Story of Anniko, Icarus and Daedalus
1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots 2. Identify sensory details

The New Colossus		1. Label the rhyme scheme 2. Recall the source of an allusion
The New Colossus
1. Label the rhyme scheme 2. Recall the source of an allusion

The Third Elevator
The Third Elevator


Perseus		1. Positive and negative connotation
Perseus
1. Positive and negative connotation
Writing Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Distinguish facts from opinions
Draft
1. Distinguish facts from opinions

Revise		Critiquing research 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Paraphrasing 2. Identify plagiarism Sources and citations 3. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) Print and graphic features 4. Read graphic organizers
Revise
Critiquing research 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Paraphrasing 2. Identify plagiarism Sources and citations 3. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) Print and graphic features 4. Read graphic organizers

Edit and Publish		1. Identify gerunds and their functions 2. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Edit and Publish
1. Identify gerunds and their functions 2. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Prepositional phrases 1. Identify prepositional phrases Commas with introductory words and phrases 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters Colons 3. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
Grammar
Prepositional phrases 1. Identify prepositional phrases Commas with introductory words and phrases 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters Colons 3. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists

6	Unit 6 The Power of One
Reading and Writing
Big Idea: How do we stand out from a crowd?		1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures
Big Idea: How do we stand out from a crowd?
1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures

Paired Readings: The Giver, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, A Thousand Cranes		1. Analyze short stories
Paired Readings: The Giver, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, A Thousand Cranes
1. Analyze short stories

Remarks at the UNESCO Education for All Week Luncheon		1. Match causes and effects in informational texts
Remarks at the UNESCO Education for All Week Luncheon
1. Match causes and effects in informational texts

Hidden Figures		1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify the author's purpose
Hidden Figures
1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify the author's purpose

Miami Dancer Follows Dreams while Planning for the Future		1. Compare information from two texts
Miami Dancer Follows Dreams while Planning for the Future
1. Compare information from two texts

Reality TV and Society		1. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts
Reality TV and Society
1. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts

The Matsuyama Mirror		1. Which definition matches the sentence? 2. Which sentence matches the definition?
The Matsuyama Mirror
1. Which definition matches the sentence? 2. Which sentence matches the definition?

Paired Readings: New Directions, Choices		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Paired Readings: New Directions, Choices
1. Compare two texts with different genres

Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine's Tales)
Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine's Tales)

Presentation Project and Grammar
Draft		1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest
Draft
1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Order topics from broadest to narrowest

Revise		Communicating ideas 1. Remove redundant words or phrases Reasons and relevant evidence 2. Classify logical fallacies Sources and citations 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Revise
Communicating ideas 1. Remove redundant words or phrases Reasons and relevant evidence 2. Classify logical fallacies Sources and citations 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Edit and Publish		1. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Edit and Publish
1. Rewrite the sentence in active voice 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Additional Grammar Lessons
Grammar		Differentiating adverbs and adjectives 1. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 2. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Relative pronouns 3. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Coordinating conjunctions 5. Identify coordinating conjunctions 6. Use coordinating conjunctions
Grammar
Differentiating adverbs and adjectives 1. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 2. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Relative pronouns 3. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Coordinating conjunctions 5. Identify coordinating conjunctions 6. Use coordinating conjunctions

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