Big Ideas: during, and viewing, during, and speaking, What was life like listening, and reading. writing and other representing AR7.2 Appraise for people in the activities. own and others’ past? CR7.3 Use pragmatic, textual, work for clarity and How do scientists syntactic, CC7.4 Use pragmatic, textual, correctness. and historians syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, reconstruct past graphophonic, semantic/lexical/morphological, lives of people? and other cues to construct graphophonic, and other cues What is important and confirm meaning when to construct and to communicate for us to know meaning. viewing, listening, and reading. the deeds and actions of people CR7.4 View and demonstrate CC7.5 Create and present a who lived in other comprehension and variety of representations times and places? including visual and multimedia interpretation of visual and What lessons can multimedia with specific presentations. we learn from features and complex ideas reconstructing the including the visual CC7.6 Use oral language to past lives of components of media. interact purposefully and people? appropriately with others in CR7.5 Listen critically to pairs, small groups, and large group situations. understand and analyze oral information and ideas from a wide range of texts. CC7.7 Use oral language to effectively express information and ideas of some complexity in CR7.6 Read and demonstrate comprehension and formal and informal situations. interpretation of grade- CC7.8 Write to describe a person; appropriate texts. to narrate an imaginary incident or CR7.7 Read independently and story; to explain and inform in a news story; a factual account, and a demonstrate comprehension of business letter; to persuade in a a variety of specialized information texts. letter and in interpretation of a text. CR7.8 Read grade 7 appropriate CC7.9 Experiment with a variety texts to increase fluency and expression. of text forms and techniques.
Big Ideas: What was life like for people in the past? How do scientists and historians reconstruct past lives of people? What is important for us to know the deeds and actions of people who lived in other times and places? What lessons can we learn from reconstructing the past lives of people? during, and viewing, listening, and reading. CR7.3 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and confirm meaning when viewing, listening, and reading. CR7.4 View and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of visual and multimedia with specific features and complex ideas including the visual components of media. CR7.5 Listen critically to understand and analyze oral information and ideas from a wide range of texts. CR7.6 Read and demonstrate comprehension and interpretation of grade- appropriate texts. CR7.7 Read independently and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of specialized information texts. CR7.8 Read grade 7 appropriate texts to increase fluency and expression. during, and speaking, writing and other representing activities. CC7.4 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and to communicate meaning. CC7.5 Create and present a variety of representations including visual and multimedia presentations. CC7.6 Use oral language to interact purposefully and appropriately with others in pairs, small groups, and large group situations. CC7.7 Use oral language to effectively express information and ideas of some complexity in formal and informal situations. CC7.8 Write to describe a person; to narrate an imaginary incident or story; to explain and inform in a news story; a factual account, and a business letter; to persuade in a letter and in interpretation of a text. CC7.9 Experiment with a variety of text forms and techniques. AR7.2 Appraise own and others’ work for clarity and correctness.
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