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ROCKDALE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Grade 7 English Language Arts Curriculum Map Year-Long
RCPS focus CCGPS for each quarter are noted on instructional planning guides
1st 9 Week: UNIT ONE
2nd 9 Weeks: UNIT TWO
3rd 9 Weeks: UNIT THREE
Literary Text
Informational Text
Literary Text
Suggested theme: What Fiction and
Suggested theme: What
Suggested theme: Individuality
Fantasy Can Teach Us
History Teaches Us about Civil versus Conformity
Suggestions for extended text:
Suggestions for extended text: The Hobbit
Rights
Suggestions for extended text: The Giver (Lowry, Lois)
(Tolkien) or
Argumentative/persuasive
While the World Watched
Thank You Ma’am (Hughes, Langston)
(McKinstry,
C.
M.)
Writing: Daily writing, revising
Baseline literary assessments (Scholastic
Argumentative/persuasive
ideas with details
Reading Inventory for reading, student
Writing:
Ideas
supported
with
(FRIES: facts, research,
writing to a prompt)
organizational
structure
illustrations/information,
Summer reading (1 Week)
Secondary
Focus:
Literary
text
examples, and statistics)
Informative/Explanatory Writing
Informative/Explanatory
Organizational structures
Secondary Focus: Informational Text
Writing:
Research
connections
support writing (topic,
Narrative Writing
to
social
studies
and/or
cause/effect, chronological,
Routine Writing (e.g., notes, summaries,
science
comparison/contrast,
writing to learn, process journals)
Routine Writing
problem/solution, sequential)
Vocabulary: Use of context, roots/affixes
Vocabulary:
Use
references
Vocabulary: Distinguish
Grammar/conventions: Review/embed
when
necessary
for
editing
among connotations/
necessary instruction/practice
Figures of speech (e.g.,
denotations of words
Functions of phrases/clauses
literary,
biblical,
mythical
Recognition of sentences – simple,
Secondary Focus:
compound, complex-and distinguish among allusions)
Grammar/conventions:
Informational Text
them
Review/embed
necessary
Poetry Writing
Use of commas to separate coordinate
instruction/practice
Routine Writing
adjectives
Focus:
Recognize
Grammar/conventions: Place
Spelling appropriate to grade-level
compound-complex
sentences
phrase/clauses within a
Collaborative conversations/presentations
Choose
appropriate
sentence
sentence; recognize/correct
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Commo
types
to
signal
differing
misplaced/dangling modifiers
n-Core/Pages/ELA-6-8.aspx
relationships
(7-8 Weeks)
(9 Weeks)
(9 Weeks)
4th 9 Weeks: UNIT FOUR
Informational Text
Suggested theme:
Demonstrating character
Suggestions for extended text:
The Long Walk to Freedom
(Mandela, Nelson)
Informative/Explanatory
Writing
Vocabulary: Precise language
choices in speaking and
writing
Secondary Focus: Literary
text
Argumentative/persuasive
Writing: Addressing counterarguments
Routine Writing
Grammar/conventions:
Review/embed necessary
instruction/practice
Summer reading selections
(9 Weeks)