California State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 7

CA.1.0. Reading: Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development: Students use their knowledge of word origins and word relationships, as well as historical and literary context clues, to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words.

1.1. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Identify idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry. 28
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1.2. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Use knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to understand content-area vocabulary 5
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1.3. Vocabulary and Concept Development: Clarify word meanings through the use of definition, example, restatement, or contrast. 12
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CA.2.0. Reading: Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials): Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and perspectives of the text by using their knowledge of text structure, organization, and purpose.

2.1. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose between various categories of informational materials (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, instructional manuals, signs). 10
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2.2. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Locate information by using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents. 11
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2.3. Structural Features of Informational Materials: Analyze text that uses the cause-and-effect organizational pattern. 16
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2.4. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Identify and trace the development of an author's argument, point of view, or perspective in text. 55
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2.5. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Understand and explain the use of a simple mechanical device by following technical directions. 29
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2.6. Expository Critique: Assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of the author's evidence to support claims and assertions, noting instances of bias and stereotyping. 9
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CA.3.0. Reading: Literary Response and Analysis: Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They clarify the ideas and connect them to other literary works.

3.1. Structural Features of Literature: Articulate the expressed purposes and characteristics of different forms of prose (e.g., short story, novel, novella, essay). 255
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3.2. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Identify events that advance the plot and determine how each event explains past or present action(s) or foreshadows future action(s). 255
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3.3. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Analyze characterization as delineated through a character's thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator's description; and the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. 255
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3.4. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Identify and analyze recurring themes across works (e.g., the value of bravery, loyalty, and friendship; the effects of loneliness). 255
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3.5. Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text: Contrast points of view (e.g., first and third person, limited and omniscient, subjective and objective) in narrative text and explain how they affect the overall theme of the work. 54
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3.6. Literary Criticism: Analyze a range of responses to a literary work and determine the extent to which the literary elements in the work shaped those responses. 255
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1.4. Research and Technology: Identify topics; ask and evaluate questions; and develop ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research. 31
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1.5. Research and Technology: Give credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations. 9
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1.6. Research and Technology: Create documents by using word-processing skills and publishing programs; develop simple databases and spreadsheets to manage information and prepare reports. 6
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1.7. Evaluation and Revision: Revise writing to improve organization and word choice after checking the logic of the ideas and the precision of the vocabulary. 33
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2.1.a. Develop a standard plot line (having a beginning, conflict, rising action, climax, and denouement) and point of view. 6
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2.1.b. Develop complex major and minor characters and a definite setting. 6
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2.1.c. Use a range of appropriate strategies (e.g., dialogue; suspense; naming of specific narrative action, including movement, gestures, and expressions). 6
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2.2.a. Develop interpretations exhibiting careful reading, understanding, and insight. 255
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2.2.b. Organize interpretations around several clear ideas, premises, or images from the literary work. 255
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2.2.c. Justify interpretations through sustained use of examples and textual evidence. 255
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2.3.a. Pose relevant and tightly drawn questions about the topic. 32
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2.3.b. Convey clear and accurate perspectives on the subject. 25
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2.3.c. Include evidence compiled through the formal research process (e.g., use of a card catalog, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, a computer catalog, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries). 44
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2.3.d. Document reference sources by means of footnotes and a bibliography. 34
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2.4.a. State a clear position or perspective in support of a proposition or proposal. 8
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2.4.b. Describe the points in support of the proposition, employing well-articulated evidence. 8
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2.4.c. Anticipate and address reader concerns and counterarguments. 8
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2.5.a. Include the main ideas and most significant details. 23
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2.5.b. Use the student's own words, except for quotations. 23
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2.5.c. Reflect underlying meaning, not just the superficial details. 23
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1.8. Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications: Analyze the effect on the viewer of images, text, and sound in electronic journalism; identify the techniques used to achieve the effects in each instance studied. 2
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