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English Language Arts (41)

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ELA.7.RL.1Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.3Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).Open Page
ELA.7.RL.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds on a specific verse or stanza.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.5Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure contributes to its meaning.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.6Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.7Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.9Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.Open Page
ELA.7.RL.10Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, independently and proficiently at grade level.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.1Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.2Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.3Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).Open Page
ELA.7.RI.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.5Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.6Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes their position from others.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.7Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium's portrayal of the subject.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.8Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.9Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.Open Page
ELA.7.RI.10Read and comprehend literary nonfiction independently and proficiently at grade level.Open Page
ELA.7.W.1Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources, transitions, and a concluding statement.Open Page
ELA.7.W.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.Open Page
ELA.7.W.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.Open Page
ELA.7.W.4Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.Open Page
ELA.7.W.5With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.Open Page
ELA.7.W.6Use technology to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others.Open Page
ELA.7.W.7Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.Open Page
ELA.7.W.8Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; quote or paraphrase data and conclusions.Open Page
ELA.7.W.9Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research by applying grade 7 reading standards to literature and informational texts.Open Page
ELA.7.W.10Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.1Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.2Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.3Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.4Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.5Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.Open Page
ELA.7.SL.6Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.Open Page
ELA.7.L.1Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking, including using phrases and clauses correctly and recognizing misplaced and dangling modifiers.Open Page
ELA.7.L.2Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing, including using a comma to separate coordinate adjectives.Open Page
ELA.7.L.3Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening, including choosing language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely.Open Page
ELA.7.L.4Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, using context clues, Greek/Latin affixes and roots, and reference materials.Open Page
ELA.7.L.5Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings, including interpreting figures of speech and analyzing relationships between words.Open Page
ELA.7.L.6Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.Open Page
Mathematics (24)

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MATH.7.RP.A.1Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas, and other quantities measured in like or different units.Open Page
MATH.7.RP.A.2Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities; decide whether two quantities are in a proportional relationship; identify the constant of proportionality; represent proportional relationships by equations.Open Page
MATH.7.RP.A.3Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems, such as simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease.Open Page
MATH.7.NS.A.1Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.Open Page
MATH.7.NS.A.2Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division and of fractions to multiply and divide rational numbers.Open Page
MATH.7.NS.A.3Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.Open Page
MATH.7.EE.A.1Apply properties of operations to add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients.Open Page
MATH.7.EE.A.2Rewrite an expression in different forms to shed light on the problem and how the quantities in it are related (e.g., a + 0.05a = 1.05a).Open Page
MATH.7.EE.B.3Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form, assessing the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies.Open Page
MATH.7.EE.B.4Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.Open Page
MATH.7.G.A.1Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale.Open Page
MATH.7.G.A.2Draw geometric shapes with given conditions, focusing on constructing triangles from three measures of angles or sides, noticing when the conditions determine a unique triangle, more than one, or no triangle.Open Page
MATH.7.G.A.3Describe the two-dimensional figures that result from slicing three-dimensional figures, as in plane sections of right rectangular prisms and right rectangular pyramids.Open Page
MATH.7.G.B.4Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.Open Page
MATH.7.G.B.5Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.Open Page
MATH.7.G.B.6Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.A.1Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.A.2Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population with an unknown characteristic of interest; generate multiple samples of the same size to gauge the variation in estimates or predictions.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.B.3Informally assess the degree of visual overlap of two numerical data distributions with similar variabilities, measuring the difference between the centers by expressing it as a multiple of a measure of variability.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.B.4Use measures of center and measures of variability for numerical data from random samples to draw informal comparative inferences about two populations.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.C.5Understand that the probability of a chance event is a number between 0 and 1 that expresses the likelihood of the event occurring; larger numbers indicate greater likelihood.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.C.6Approximate the probability of a chance event by collecting data on the chance process that produces it and observing its long-run relative frequency, and predict the approximate relative frequency given the probability.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.C.7Develop a probability model and use it to find probabilities of events; compare probabilities from a model to observed frequencies; if the agreement is not good, explain possible sources of the discrepancy.Open Page
MATH.7.SP.C.8Find probabilities of compound events using organized lists, tables, tree diagrams, and simulation; understand that the probability of a compound event is the fraction of outcomes in the sample space for which the compound event occurs.Open Page
Science (12)

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SCI.7.LS1.AConduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, that cells are the basic structural and functional unit of all living things, and that cells come from pre-existing cells.Open Page
SCI.7.LS1.BDevelop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways the parts of cells contribute to the function of the organism (e.g., cell wall, cell membrane, nucleus, mitochondria, chloroplasts).Open Page
SCI.7.LS1.CUse arguments supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells, and that matter and energy are continuously cycling through organisms.Open Page
SCI.7.LS1.DGather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.Open Page
SCI.7.LS2.AAnalyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.Open Page
SCI.7.LS2.BConstruct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems; develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and the flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.Open Page
SCI.7.LS2.CEvaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services; analyze dynamic relationships between abiotic and biotic components that affect ecosystem stability.Open Page
SCI.7.LS3.ADevelop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.Open Page
SCI.7.LS3.BDevelop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.Open Page
SCI.7.LS4.AAnalyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth.Open Page
SCI.7.LS4.BApply concepts of statistics and probability to support explanations that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait.Open Page
SCI.7.LS4.CConstruct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals' probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.Open Page
Social Studies (18)

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SS.7.E.7.ADescribe how economic systems in medieval and early modern societies allocated resources, organized production, and distributed goods and services, including feudal, mercantile, and early market systems.Open Page
SS.7.E.7.BExplain how trade networks (e.g., Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharan) connected civilizations and created economic interdependence across regions in the medieval and early modern world.Open Page
SS.7.GS.AUse maps and geographic tools to analyze physical and human features of regions studied in medieval and early modern world history, including how geography influenced the rise of civilizations and empires.Open Page
SS.7.GS.BAnalyze how people of the medieval and early modern world adapted to and modified their physical environments, including the development of cities and agricultural systems.Open Page
SS.7.GS.CDescribe the human and physical characteristics of world regions studied and explain how geographic factors influenced cultural, economic, and political development.Open Page
SS.7.GS.DExplain patterns of migration, conquest, and cultural diffusion in the medieval and early modern world, including the Crusades, Mongol expansion, and European exploration.Open Page
SS.7.H.7.AAnalyze the causes and consequences of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval European civilization, including feudalism, the Catholic Church, and the Byzantine Empire.Open Page
SS.7.H.7.BDescribe the rise, spread, and major contributions of Islamic civilization, and analyze interactions between Islamic, Christian, and other civilizations in the medieval world.Open Page
SS.7.H.7.CAnalyze the major civilizations and empires of Asia and Africa during the medieval period, including China, Japan, the Mali/Songhai empires, and the Mongol Empire, and their global interactions.Open Page
SS.7.H.7.DExplain the causes and effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Exploration on European society and their global impact, including cultural change, religious conflict, and colonial expansion.Open Page
SS.7.PC.ACompare and contrast forms of government and systems of power in medieval and early modern world civilizations, including monarchies, theocracies, empires, and early democratic institutions.Open Page
SS.7.PC.BAnalyze the rights and responsibilities of individuals within the political and social systems of medieval and early modern societies, including social hierarchies and legal codes.Open Page
SS.7.PC.CExplain how civic ideals and democratic principles evolved during the medieval and early modern periods, including the Magna Carta, Renaissance humanism, and Enlightenment ideas.Open Page
SS.7.TS.ADevelop and use compelling and supporting questions to investigate topics in medieval and early modern world history using social studies inquiry processes.Open Page
SS.7.TS.BGather and evaluate information from multiple primary and secondary sources, including maps, chronicles, and digital sources, to answer historical questions about the medieval and early modern world.Open Page
SS.7.TS.COrganize and interpret information from maps, timelines, charts, and other sources to analyze patterns and relationships in medieval and early modern world history.Open Page
SS.7.TS.DConstruct explanations and arguments about medieval and early modern world history using evidence gathered and evaluated from multiple sources.Open Page
SS.7.TS.ECommunicate findings about medieval and early modern world history through speaking, writing, and multimedia to present well-organized arguments and information.Open Page