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Standard Identifier: RL.7.1

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

Standard:
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Standard Identifier: RL.7.10

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Standard:
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Standard Identifier: RL.7.2

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

Standard:
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.

Standard Identifier: RL.7.3

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

Standard:
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

Standard Identifier: RL.7.4

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama. (See grade 7 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

Standard Identifier: RL.7.5

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.

Standard Identifier: RL.7.6

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

Standard Identifier: RL.7.7

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Standard:
Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).

Standard Identifier: RL.7.8

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Standard:
(Not applicable to literature)

Standard Identifier: RL.7.9

Grade: 7
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Standard:
Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

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