Literature/ Reading

 

Short Stories

"From I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings"  Maya Angelou

"Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom" Ann Petry

 

Poems

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

“All But Blind” by Walter De La Mare

“The Choice” by Dorothy Parker

 

Writing

Students will be required to write a personal narrative using many narrative elements.

Students will answer Literary Analysis questions in complete paragraphs.

Students will complete on-demand narrative writing.

 

Tests and Quizzes

Students will be quizzed on grammar taught in the Narrative Unit weekly.

Student's final process writing projects will be assessed as test grades.

Students will be assessed on the Literature that has been covered in class.

 

Projects

Student's projects in this class are going ot be their rough-draft process writing pieces due the extensive time put into them.

 

Grammar

Students will review the following: subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs , linking verbs, helping verbs, subject / verb agreement, spelling, punctuation, prepositions and prepositional phrases

 

 Literary Skills

Elements of Narrative Writing

Figurative Language

Plot

Characterization

Sensory Details

 

 

****Other Literature may be added or substituted****