Standards Addressed:

• RL.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
• RL.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. including figurative and connotative meanings
• RL.6. Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text
• W.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• SL.1. Engage 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
• L.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

Curriculum Objectives
The child should be enabled to: engage with an increasing range of narrative, expository and representational text; engage with books in group or in whole-class settings; use comprehension skills such as analyzing, confirming, evaluating, syntheising and correlating to aid deduction, problem-solving and prediction; support arguments and opinions with evidence from the text; relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text and appreciate issues in fiction.