Reading Unit 1
"The Emperor's New Clothes" drama
Application of literary elements to the drama. Students will identify and describe the following: characters, protagonist, antagonist, theme, setting, conflict, static character, and dynamic character.
Reading Informational Standards
Multiple worksheets that address reading informational text standards
ELAGSE7RI5: Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including
how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Text Structure You Tube Tutorial
ELAGSE7RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and
analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Power Point Author's Point of View
Author's Purpose & Point of View Power Point
Reading Literary Standards
Multiple worksheets that address reading literary text standards
ELAGSE7RL1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what
the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELAGSE7RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Sum It Up! Practice worksheet for writing summaries
ELAGSE7RL3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact
(e.g., how settings shape the characters or plot).
ELAGSE7RL4: 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.
Figurative Language Power Point
Connotation/Denotation Power Point
Connotation/Denotation Worksheets
ELAGSE7RL6: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view
of different characters or narrators in a text.