7th Grade ELA
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Identity & Voice — Grade 7
In this unit, students explore how identity shapes voice and how voice shapes the world. Through diverse texts spanning cultures, continents, and centuries, students examine the ways writers claim, defend, and celebrate who they are. From the power held in a name to the courage of speaking across two worlds, every lesson connects the personal to the universal.
Essential Question
How does who we are shape what we say — and how we say it?
📚 Recommended Anchor Texts
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Lessons
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The Weight of a Name
How names carry culture, history, and identity
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Speaking Truth to Power
Voice as resistance, resilience, and liberation
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Between Two Worlds
Navigating dual identities and the spaces in between
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My Voice, My Power
Claiming your story through the written word
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Writing Assignment
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The Voice Inside Me
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Standards Alignment
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1 RL.7.2 RL.7.3 RL.7.4 RL.7.6 W.7.3 W.7.4 SL.7.1
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