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📖 7th Grade · ELAW.7.9Unit 2: Novel study: character, point of view & theme

Literary essay

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🎯 Objective: Students write a short literary analysis with evidence.

Lesson outline

  1. Thesis.
  2. Draft.
  3. Revise.
  4. Exit: thesis.

Lesson 5 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.7.9

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 7 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of view
  • Analyze theme over the course of a novel

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 7th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Novel study: character, point of view & theme”

  1. Launching the novel
  2. Contrasting points of view
  3. Literary devices
  4. Text vs film
  5. Literary essay

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