Recognize the author's use of language devices such as sound, diction, and symbolism. Recognize persuasive techniques such as personality, tradition, rhetoric, and reason. Writing Seventh graders write point of view pieces that have a coherent, logical, and organized structure and that provide sufficient, elaborated reasons to support a position. They learn to include main ideas and supporting details in argumentative writing. These students use writing logs to record their interpretations of text and to summarize key points already included in the log.
Revision focuses on rearranging, deleting, or adding new ideas and paragraphs.
Recognize that writing can persuade and change people's actions and attitudes. Recognize that writing can help explore opposing points of view or all aspects of a problem or issue. Use one or more of the following strategies to write literary, informational, and practical texts. Write on a variety of topics in more than one mode. Verbalize characteristics of effective and ineffective writing.