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Literature / Reading

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Mark Twain

"The Story of An Hour" Kate Chopin

Informational Texts: articles / Satirical Cartoons

Videos

 

Poems / Lyrics

"Ironic" Alanis Morrisette

 

Writing

Literary  Analysis - Students will respond to Literature using writing strategy: BEP - Basic Expository Paragraph

Extensive Paragraph writing for formal writing

Explanatory Essay Writing

 

 

Tests and Quizzes

Student's quizzes will be based off of Grammar.

Student's quizzes will be based off of academic vocabulary.

Student's quizzes will be based off of independent reading - answering comprehension questions to show student accountability.

Student's quizzes will be based off of Writing Strategies.

Student's tests will be the final writing project for Explanatory Writing using the state assigned rubric.

Student's tests will be based off the novel assigned for the marking period.

 

Projects

Student's rough draft writing will be their project grade because it is a lengthy assignment and takes a lot of revision.

Students may receive a novel project.

 

 

Grammar

Students will continue with grammar, fine-tuning complete sentences, sentence fragments, compound and complex sentences, different types of sentences, dashes, semicolons, colons etc.

 

Literary Skills

Verbal and Situational Irony

Characterization

Mood Change

Satire

 

 *****Readings may be added or changed****