English Language Arts Grades 7-8 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (7-8.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 7-8.R.12:

Compare a text to another text in a different medium about the same topic and evaluate the impact of the differences on the audience. (RL & RI)

• Abolition: The Catalyst for the Women's Rights Movement
  This lesson examines the beginnings of the women?s suffrage movement as an outgrowth of the abolitionist movement. Students will learn about key figures who were involved in both movements and analyze primary source documents to compare abolitionist and women?s suffrage arguments.
• Analyzing Opinions For and Against Women's Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
  In this lesson, students will analyze primary source excerpts from various viewpoints. Students will use these sources to interpret why most Utah women?s voting rights were granted, rescinded, and returned between 1870 and the achievement of statehood in 1896.
• Utah Women and the Railroad
  Despite the fact that women do not appear in photographs of railroad workers and businessmen celebrating the project?s completion, they are part of the story, too. Learn more about how they were involved and how the railroad impacted them through the use of primary documents and short activities.

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