Period 7/9 Reading 7th Grade

Unit Focus: Arguments

Essay Formats used this trimester

• Argument paragraphs
• Proposal Essay (addressing a real-world problem and proposing a viable solution)

 Skills taught in this unit:

• Identifying a real-world need/problem
• Creating a viable solution with steps and funding 
• Finding reliable resources during research
• Forming notes that are well-organized and purposeful
• Categorizing notes into main ideas to form body paragraphs
• Developing a debatable claim
• Writing intriguing introduction and conclusion paragraphs
• Paraphrasing and quoting to support ideas 

Grammar Skills 

• Revising for concise sentences
  • decreasing "to be" verbs for conciseness 
• Revising to include a variety of purposeful sentence structures (simple, compound, complex, and compoud-complex)
• Appropriate placement of commas 
  • introductory words and phrases
  • nonessential information
  • dependent and independent clauses
  • compound sentences
  • correlative and coordinative adjectives