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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 7
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Key Ideas and Details
[RL.7.3] - Analyze how particular elements of a story, poem, or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
- Character
Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts. - Drama
Literature in the form of a script intended for performance before an audience; also called theatre or a play when written for the stage. A drama usually presents its story largely through the dialogue and actions of its characters. - Grade 7 Annotated Response to a Text-Based Question
- Grade 7 Unmarked Response to a Text-Based Question
- Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Plot
Action or sequence of related events in a (usually fiction) narrative. Plot is usually a series of related incidents that builds and grows as the story develops. Plot lines commonly contain five basic elements: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution or denouement. See Conflict. - Poem/poetry
Creative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language, often characterized by a rhyme scheme or by rhythm far more regular than that of prose. - Setting
Time and place of the action in a narrative, drama, or poem.
[RL.6.3] -
Describe how the plot of a particular story, poem, or drama unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
[RL.8.3] -
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story, poem, or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.