Lesson 1A - Introduction
Welcome to the first lesson of Grade 7 Language Arts! Your Mizzou Academy instructors are excited to join you on your adventure through critical and creative thinking, reading, and writing as we explore the themes of Challenges and Hope, Courage, Education, and Community.
As we begin, you can picture our global classroom like the popular cartoon series, The Loud House.
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Each character in the Loud family has a specific personality style. Here are some examples:
- Luna loves music.
- Lola talks a lot and has her own podcast.
- Luan is a jokester who plays lots of pranks.
- Lori is in love with Bobby.
- Lincoln loves his treehouse.
- Lynn Jr. leads at-home workouts for her viewers.
- Lana is great at fixing vehicles.
- Lisa loves to give advice to others.
Your life as a student is a little bit like the Loud family. You have some things you are really good at. So do your friends and classmates. You are different, but you all work together. Everyone’s strengths are important to the whole group.
Let’s get started!
Essential Question
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What strategies can I use to make sense of new information? |
Sustainable Development Goal for Lessons 6-10
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Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. |
In 2015, all the countries that are represented by the United Nations adopted what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The goals are central to our mission here at Mizzou Academy. These goals represent a "call to action" which is the purpose behind embedding them in our curriculum. We want to inspire you to connect our course content to elevated thinking about how to solve these global challenges. As you encounter them throughout our program, stop and reflect on how you can participate in making this world a better place for everyone.
Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to
1.1 identify learning strengths and weaknesses using the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
1.2 identify how to process information.
1.3 practice active reading strategies to take in, understand, remember, and respond to information.
1.4 use context clues to define unfamiliar words.
1.5 preview grammar concepts and distinguish between subject, object, and possessive pronouns.
Sections
- 1A Introduction
- 1B The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- 1C Processing Information
- 1D Active Reading Strategies
- 1E Introduction to Context Clues
- 1F Read and React
- 1G Grammar Lab: Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
- 1H Key Concepts
Standards Addressed
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.5
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.6
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.