Language Arts II - 7
Overview
Discover your own ability to write through reading, listening, and analyzing various texts, such as newspapers and novels.
Major Concepts:
- Identifying theme
- Analyzing how theme develops
- Comparing and contrasting mediums
- Using context clues
- Thesaurus and dictionary skills
- Implicit and explicit meaning
- Finding the main idea
- Writing an effective summary
- Assess internet sources
- Why writers choose words
- Reading informational texts
- Researching and organizing information
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Writing an introduction for informational texts
- Connecting and supporting ideas
- Writing a conclusion for informational texts
- Revising writing
- Using formal language in writing
- Recognizing point of view
- Identifying the narrator
- Planning narrative writing
- Beginning a narrative
- Writing dialogue
- Writing the body of a narrative
- Using commas
- Writing effective transitions
- Identifying active and passive verbs
- Organization of informational articles
- How authors express ideas differently
- Roots and affixes
- Using apostrophes
- Interpreting allusions
- History vs. fiction
- Propaganda
- Interpreting explicit and implicit ideas
- Identifying poetic devices
- How poets arrange their words
- How literary elements interact
- Finding text support
- Comparing and contrasting
- Perspective of different characters in literature
- Plot pattern
- Identifying and interpreting symbolism
- Determining theme
- Writing a book review
- Enhancing a messing using multi-media
- Determine an author’s point of view
- Claims and counterclaims
- Writing an effective claim
- Locating reliable sources
- Refuting counterclaims
- Eliminating redundancy
- Writing a strong introduction
- Building an argument
- Transitions and signal phrases
- Writing a strong conclusion
- Polishing a final draft
Advanced
- Origins and elements of the novel
- Analyzing major characters
- Analyzing historical context
- Authors’ style and voice
- Short story genres
- Elements of suspense
- Authors’ language techniques
- Historical context of literature
Fee Details
| S.No. | Program Name | Fee Component | Amount (USD) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Regular | Course Fee | $ 250 | To be paid by the student at the time of Enrollment. |
| 2 | Advanced | Course Fee | $ 275 | To be paid by the student at the time of Enrollment. |
Grade Level
Grade 7
Duration
Annual
Requirements
All students select ONE novel below:
- Ungifted by Gordon Korman
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
- Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
- The Magician’s Nephew by CS Lewis
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Advanced students select ONE additional novel below:
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Prerequisites
Recommended for 7th grade
