Close Reading Exemplar: The Glorious Whitewasher (Grade 7)

Description

The goal of this exemplar is to reinforce the skills students have acquired regarding how to extend their understanding and interaction with multiple texts when investigating a set of focused historical themes. This close reading exemplar is intended to model how teachers can support their students as they undergo the kind of careful reading the Common Core State Standards require. Teachers are encouraged to take these exemplars and modify them to suit the needs of their students.

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11 Learning Standards

Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1 (Supporting alignment)
1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 (Supporting alignment)
2. Determine 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.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3 (Supporting alignment)
3. Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3 (Supporting alignment)
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3b (Supporting alignment)
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.9 (Supporting alignment)
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.7.1 (Supporting alignment)
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.4 (Supporting alignment)
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.4a (Supporting alignment)
a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.5 (Supporting alignment)
5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

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Teaches CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.6 (Supporting alignment)
6. Acquire 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.

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3 Keywords

Social Sciences Arts and Humanities -- Literature Arts and Humanities
#SocialSciences #ArtsandHumanities--Literature #ArtsandHumanities

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