Grade 7 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • character
    • characterization
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict: character vs. character
  3. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. society
    • character vs. nature/environment
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot: linear and flashback
  3. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • diction
    • tone and mood
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • rhyme and meter
    • figures of speech and sound devices
    • style
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • patterns and motifs
    • organic unity
  2. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within biographical context
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within historical context
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
  4. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • diction
    • style
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • tone and mood
    • organic unity
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: patterns and motifs
  3. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  2. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: poem/prose.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: poem/prose.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: non-journalistic texts: expository text
    • sequence/process
    • comparison-contrast
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: non-journalistic texts: expository text
    • cause and effect
    • problem and solution
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts
    • news and press releases
    • features
  2. Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
  3. Extract significant information.
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Distinguish facts from claims/opinions
    • statements of facts
    • statements of opinions
    • statements of fact-based opinions
  2. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  2. Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Examine how visual elements are used as tools to achieve the intended meaning of informational texts: vectors, viewpoint, technical editing, animations
  2. Analyze how non-linear texts represent and/or summarize the contents of informational texts
    • graphs
    • charts
    • infographics
    • graphical organizers
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness
    • testimonials vs. plain folks
    • stereotyping vs. fear appeals
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Assess the quality of journalistic articles based on standard development principles: simplicity and brevity, precision, objectivity and factuality, fairness and balance, ethics
  2. Synthesize significant information.
  3. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Organize significant information using various technique.
  2. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
  3. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  4. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  4. Edit the text for textual consistency.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: expository text, news and press releases, and features.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  4. Synthesize significant information.

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: academic texts: expository essay
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
  2. Extract significant information.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
  2. Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
  3. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
  4. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Revise the text for coherence.
  2. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  4. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: expository essay.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender's meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of request
  2. Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Examine the sender's voice for clarity of purpose and meaning: diction, style, tone and register, point of view, sentence structure
  2. Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
  3. Identify one's purpose and meaning in writing letters.
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Compose a letter of request.
  2. Revise for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.
  2. Compose a letter of request.
  3. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: expository essay.
  2. Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.
  3. Revise for coherence and cohesion.
  4. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.