📚 7th grade English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   🎭Literary Devices

   Recognizing the tools writers use: figurative language, foreshadowing, flashback, symbolism and the three kinds of irony (verbal, situational and dramatic), plus the parts of a plot.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.RL.3; ELA.7.RL.5 · irony, foreshadowing and symbolism

2. Unit 2

   🌦️Tone & Mood

   Telling the writer's attitude (tone) apart from the reader's feeling (mood), and seeing how word choice and connotation shape both.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.RL.4; ELA.7.L.5 · tone and mood

3. Unit 3

   🎭Whose Story?

   Telling first, second and third person apart, finding the clues, and imagining how a different narrator would change the story.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.RL.6 · first, second and third person

4. Unit 4

   🖋️Poetry Lab

   Reading short original poems to find rhyme schemes, count stanzas, identify the speaker, recognize forms like haiku, limerick and free verse, and interpret figurative language and theme.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.RL.5 · poetic forms, stanzas and speakers

5. Unit 5

   📣Persuasive Power

   Identifying appeals to credibility, emotion and logic; spotting weak reasoning like bandwagon, false cause and slippery slope; and judging which evidence and rebuttals are strongest.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.RI.8; ELA.7.SL.3 · persuasive appeals and logical fallacies

6. Unit 6

   🧩Clauses & Sentences

   Finding independent and dependent clauses, naming the four sentence types, and fixing fragments, run-ons and comma splices, the building blocks of varied, clear sentences.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.L.1 · simple, compound and complex sentences

7. Unit 7

   ⚖️Modifiers & Parallelism

   Revising sentences so describing phrases sit next to what they describe (no misplaced or dangling modifiers) and list items match in form (parallel structure).

   Learning standard: ELA.7.L.1 · placing modifiers and keeping sentences parallel

8. Unit 8

   ✒️Punctuation Power

   Using a colon before a quotation, a semicolon with words like however and therefore, and ellipses or dashes to show a pause, an omission or a break.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.L.2 · colons, conjunctive adverbs and ellipses

9. Unit 9

   🔀Word Mix-Ups

   Choosing correctly between commonly confused words: its/it's, their/there/they're, then/than, lose/loose, who's/whose, affect/effect, accept/except and more.

   Learning standard: ELA.7.L.2; ELA.7.L.3 · commonly confused words

10. Unit 10

    🌳Roots & Word Parts

    Children work out the meaning and spelling of new words from their roots, prefixes and suffixes, and meet figures of speech.

    Learning standard: ELA.7.L.4 · Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes

11. Unit 11

    🗂️Research Skills

    Children practice primary and secondary sources, conflicts of interest, focused searches, checking AI answers and online images, quoting, paraphrasing and citing.

    Learning standard: ELA.7.W.7; ELA.7.W.8 · primary and secondary sources, focused searches, quoting and citing

12. Unit 12

    🖼️Framing the Message

    Children look at how headlines, graphs, camera angles, loaded words and sponsored posts shape a message, and how a reader's community and feelings affect their reaction.

    Learning standard: ELA.7.RI.6; ELA.7.SL.2 · how headlines, images and word choice frame a message

13. Unit 13

    🧩Spelling: Prefixes and Patterns

    Children practice US spelling: -cede, -ceed and -sede, prefixes and suffixes that create double letters, -able and -ible, irregular plurals and commonly misspelled words.

    Learning standard: ELA.7.L.2 · spelling correctly with prefix, suffix and plural rules