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ELA Core 7th Grade
Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us: Family, Culture & Identity
Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us: Family, Culture & Identity
California CCSS: Focus Standards
RL.7.4
RL.7.5
W.7.10
RI.7.2
RI.7.3
RI.7.4
RI.7.9
L.7.1.a
RL.7.2
L.7.1.b
W.7.2.a
W.7.2.b
W.7.2.d
W.7.4
RL.7.1
L.7.4a
L.7.4d
RL.7.3
L.7.4.a
SL.7.1.a
SL.7.1.c
SL.7.1.d
W.7.1.a
W.7.1.b
W.7.1.c
W.7.1.d
W.7.5
SL.7.4.a
L.7.5.a
W.7.7
W.7.8
W.7.9
RL.7.6
RI.7.1
W.7.2
L.7.3
SL.7.1.b
W.7.2.c
L.7.1.c
W.7.2d
W.7.2e
W.7.2f
W.7.3
W.7.3.d
SL.7.4
SL.7.5
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.7.1
ELD.PI.7.10
ELD.PI.7.4
ELD.PI.7.8
ELD.PII.7.1
ELD.PI.7.10b.Em
ELD.PI.7.10b.Ex
ELD.PI.7.10b.Br
ELD.PI.7.6a.Em
ELD.PI.7.6a.Ex
ELD.PI.7.6a.Br
ELD.PII.7.2b.Em
ELD.PII.7.2b.Ex
ELD.PII.7.2b.Br
ELD.PI.7.11a.Em
ELD.PI.7.11a.Ex
ELD.PI.7.11a.Br
ELD.PI.7.10a.Em
ELD.PI.7.10a.Ex
ELD.PI.7.10a.Br
ELD.PI.7.3
ELD.PI.7.6
ELD.PI.7.11
ELD.PI.7.12
ELD.PI.7.5
ELD.PI.7.12a.Em
ELD.PI.7.12a.Ex
ELD.PI.7.12a.Br
ELD.PII.7.6
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Lessons
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Lessons
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(46 total)
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Lesson 1: Two Lives, One Voice: Red, White, and Whole and “Fish Cheeks”
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 2: One Dinner, Two Worlds: “Fish Cheeks”
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 3: Between Two Worlds: Red, White, and Whole and “Youth: Bicultural Identity: Then & Now”
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 4: Blood Ties, Big Costs: Red, White, and Whole, “Give and Take” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 5: Where Home Lives: Red, White, and Whole, “First Memory”–“Amma’s Orbit”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 6: What Blood Means: Red, White, and Whole, “The Discovery”–“Red, White, and Whole” and “What Is Blood?”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 7: From Notes to Meaning: Red, White, and Whole and “What Is Blood?”
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 8: The Words Reha Swallows: Red, White, and Whole, “Courtly Love”–“Mustard Seeds”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 9: Flex Day: Pause and Piece It Together
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 10: Songs Across the Divide: Red, White, and Whole, “Pop Music”—“After School”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 11: Living in the In-Between: Red, White, and Whole, “MTV”–“Hot and Cold”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 12: Stories That Fight Back: Red, White, and Whole, “Amar Chitra Kathas”–“Savitri, Part 2” and “Savitri: A Princess Who Would Not Give Up”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 13: Seen, Misread, and Known: Red, White, and Whole, “What Rachel Thinks”–“Down the Stairs”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 14: Best Night, Worst News: Red, White, and Whole, “Come Dancing”–“The Diagnosis”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 15: When a Tongue Grows Back: “Search for My Tongue”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 16: Can You Get Yourself Back?: Red, White, and Whole and “Search for My Tongue”
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 17: Can Symbols Say It Better?: Red, White, and Whole and “Search for My Tongue”
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 18: Make the Symbolism Stronger: Red, White, and Whole and “Search for My Tongue”
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 19: Did Writing Change Your Reading?: Red, White, and Whole and “Search for My Tongue”
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 20
Not Yet Ingested
Lesson 21: Flexible Huddle Day: Poetry Moves That Matter
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 22: Researching Blood and Belonging
Research
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 23: Evaluating Information Online and Responsible Sharing
Research
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 24: Figurative language and Word Choice: Red, White, and Whole, “The River”–”The Phone Call”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 25: When “Two” Changes Meaning: Red, White, and Whole, “Lost”–”Not Allowed”
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 26: Life Rafts and Routines: Red, White, and Whole, “The New Routine”–“School Daze”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 27: Who Keeps Reha Afloat?: Red, White, and Whole, “Afternoons”–“The Roommates”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 28: Writing Imagery Analysis: Red, White, and Whole
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 29: Comparing Research to Poetry: Red, White, and Whole, “The New Rhythm”–”Shock” and “Olympic Hopeful Works to Improve Bone Marrow Registries”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 30: Tracing the Symbolism of Blood: Red, White, and Whole, “No One”– “Watching”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 31: When the River Returns: Red, White, and Whole, “Dr. Andrews”–“Comfortably Numb”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 32: A Letter at the End: Finishing Red, White and Whole, “The Phone Call”–”Always Something There to Remind Me”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 33: When the Author Steps In: Red, White, and Whole Author’s Note and “Bicultural Identity: Then & Now”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 34: Two Worlds, Three Voices: Red, White, and Whole Author’s Note and “Bicultural Identity: Then & Now”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 35: Connecting “Through her grief, an Indian American photographer rediscovers her heritage,” to Red, White and Whole
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 36: Writing Sharper Claims and Stronger Evidence: “Through her grief, an Indian American photographer rediscovers her heritage”
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 37: Discussing the Connection Between Poems and Images: “Through her grief, an Indian American photographer rediscovers her heritage”
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 38
Not Yet Ingested
Lesson 39: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 40: Review Performance Task and Plan Literary Analysis Essays
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 41: Drafting a Literary Analysis
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 42: Literary Analysis Peer Review and Revision
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 43: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 44: Drafting an Original Poem
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 45: Write an Author’s Note for an Original Poem
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 46: Voices of Belonging: Student Poem Presentations
Presentation
Duration:
50 min