Grade 7 » Author's purpose and craft
      
        
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          Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts
          
        
      
      
      
        
              
          
        
          
            
              
          
        
          
            
              
          
        
          
            
              
          
        
          
            
              
          
        
        
      
    
  Author's purpose and craft
            Description:
            The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
          
        
        
          
            7.9.A
                
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                    Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
                    
                  
    
                
              
              
                 Does Reading Plus meet this standard? 
                
                  
              
                 ✓ standard met 
                
              
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            ✓ SeeReader
                  
                    ✓ Writing Prompts
                  
                7.9.D
                
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                    Describe how the author's use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes.
                    
                  
    
                
              
              
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                 ✓ standard met 
                
              
                  Aligned modules:
                  
                    
              
              
                
              
            ✓ SeeReader
                  
                    ✓ Writing Prompts
                  
                7.9.E
                
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                    Identify the use of literary devices, including subjective and objective point of view.
                    
                  
    
                
              
              
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                 ✓ standard met 
                
              
                  Aligned modules:
                  
                    
              
              
                
              
            ✓ SeeReader
                  
                    ✓ Writing Prompts
                  
                7.9.F
                
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                    Analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone.
                    
                  
    
                
              
              
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                 ✓ standard met 
                
              
                  Aligned modules:
                  
                    
              
              
                
              
            ✓ SeeReader
                  
                    ✓ Writing Prompts
                  
                7.9.G
                
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                    Explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as direct address and rhetorical questions and logical fallacies such as loaded language and sweeping generalizations.
                    
                  
    
                
              
              
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                 ✓ standard met 
                
              
                  Aligned modules:
                  
                    
              
              
                
              
            ✓ SeeReader
                  
                    ✓ Writing Prompts