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7th Grade Language Arts
English VII introduces students to the writing process, review of all parts of speech, active and passive voice, progressive tense verbs, interrogative,demonstrative, relative, and indefinite pronouns, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, phrases and clauses, coordinating conjunctions, verbals, and review of punctuation.
This course teaches and reviews verbs, consonants, vowels, word analysis skills including Greek and Latin words, connotation and denotation, word similarities,abbreviations, comprehension skills including classifying, comparing and contrasting, recognizing cause and effect, point of view, literary terms,elements of fiction, examples of newspaper writing, poetry, drama, and figurative language. Selected authors include Dickens, Twain, Washington,Crane, Stevenson, Hardy, London, Shelley, Dryden, and Sidney.
Thistitle includes identification and use of closed, open, and accented syllables,using a pronunciation key, synonyms, antonyms, words in context, words borrowedfrom names and places, foreign phrases, test taking strategies, identifying the/y/ sound in words, vowel clusters, separate sounds for the consonants “c,”“g,” and “s,” and the sound of /ph/.