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Language Arts OVERVIEW
Language Arts OVERVIEW

Sunshine State Standards
Sunshine State Standards

ESOL Strategies
ESOL Strategies

Adolescent Literacy
Adolescent Literacy

List of Reading Strategies
List of Reading Strategies

Reading Sequence
Reading Sequence

Reading Plan
Reading Plan

Websites for Vocabulary Development
Websites for Vocabulary Development

Traits of the Effective Reader
Traits of the Effective Reader

Vocabulary by Selection
Vocabulary by Selection

Traits of Effective Writing
Traits of Effective Writing

Condensed Scoring Guide for Writing
Condensed Scoring Guide for Writing

Writing Instruction Overview
Writing Instruction Overview

Top Writing Skills
Top Writing Skills

Homework
Homework

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Language Arts OVERVIEW OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR

UPDATE: Homework assignments are posted on this webpage and also given to you in hard copy on the first day of each week.

Course Description:

This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of classic and contemporary literature appropriate for adolescents.  With literature as the driving force, the course will include grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and writing, instructed in an inter-disciplinary manner.  Listening skills, reading skills and strategies, as well as public speaking skills will also be integrated into the curriculum.

SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS:  SEE MY RESOURCES

Objectives:

A.  The students will learn English language skills so that they may use language to learn.

B.  The students will use language to communicate effectively in various domains.

C.  The students will use appropriate conventions and forms of language.

D.  The students will increase their appreciation of language and literature.

E.  The students will expand their abilities to write effectively.

TEXTBOOK:  Language of Literature, McDougal Littell

SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR CLASS:

Pencils/pens/highlighter

3 subject spiral notebook with pocket dividers

Post It Notes

Loose leaf (filler) paper

RULES:  RIGHTS, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY

Be here on time, prepared, ready to participate in your learning process.

Be alert, attentive, and active in your learning process.

Be respectful, responsible, and recognize your rights and the rights of others.

 

An Outline of The Curriculum 2009-2010 August-February

Selections may change.

Dates may change.

August/September

Literature

Unit One INSIGHTS

Part One RELATIONSHIPS

FICTION

Selections:

Checkouts                                            

Raymond’s Run                                   

Stop the Sun                                        

From Dear America                             

A Mother in Manville                          

The Ransom of Red Chief                   

Born Worker                                     


Writer’s notebook:

  • Background Knowledge Records
  • Collecting Quotations/Fave sentences
  • Word Histories
  • Illustrating Vocabulary
  • Reader’s Response
  • Story Boards

Grammar:

Kinds of Nouns
Singular/Plural Nouns
Possessive Nouns
Compound Nouns
Verbs
Objects of Verbs/Direct/Indirect
Subject Complements
Principal Parts of Regular Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Verb Tense
Verb Pairs
Noun Verb Agreement
FOR WRITING, SEE WRITING OVERVIEW TAB

October/November

Literature

Unit Four  STRANGE GOINGS-ON

Part One TWISTS AND TURNS

SCIENCE FICTION

Selections:

Rain, Rain Go Away                               
The Dinner Party                                     
The Lady, or the Tiger?                             

Future Tense                                               

Part Two  Tales Told in the Dark

MOOD AND TONE

The Tell Tale Heart                                 

The Hitchhiker                                        

The Third Wish                                        

The Monkey’s Paw                                    

Writer’s Notebook:

  • Background Knowledge Records
  • Collecting Quotations/Fave sentences
  • Word Histories
  • Illustrating Vocabulary
  • Reader’s Response
  • Story Boards

Grammar


Pronouns
Complete Subjects/Predicates
Simple Subjects/Predicates
Compound Sentence Parts
Kinds of Sentences
Subjects in Different Order
Fragments/Run Ons
Comma Usage
End Marks
FOR WRITING, SEE WRITING OVERVIEW TAB

December

Literature

Unit Two: Rising to the Challenge

SHOWING DETERMINATION

FICTION

Selection:

 

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON      

 

Writer’s Notebook

  • Background Knowledge Records
  • Collecting Quotations/Fave sentences
  • Word Histories
  • Illustrating Vocabulary
  • Reader’s Response
  • Story Boards

 Grammar:

Adjectives

  • Descriptive
  • Proper
  • Definite
  • Indefinite
  • Possessive
  • Demonstrative
  • Nouns and Verbs used as Adjectives
  • Compound Adjectives
  • Degrees of comparison (positive, comparative, superlative)

Adverbs

  • Time
  • Place
  • Manner
  • Degree
  • Interrogative
  • Most frequently used

January

Literature

Combined units:  POETRY

Selections:

 The Ballad of the Heart Weaver                                        

The Choice                                                                  

Identity                                                                       

I’m Making a List                                                        

The lesson of the Moth                                                 

POET STUDY Don Marquis

Mother to Son                                                              

Oh Captain, My Captain                                               

We Alone                                                                    

Success                                                                       

POET STUDY  Nikki Giovanni

            A Journey                                                     

            Knoxville, Tennessee                                              

            Legacies                                                       

            Choices                                                          

            The drum                                                    

 


Writer’s Notebook:

  • Background Knowledge Records
  • Collecting Quotations/Fave sentences
  • Word Histories
  • Illustrating Vocabulary
  • Reader’s Response
  • Story Boards

Grammar

Punctuating Quotations
Use of Semi Colon, Colon
Use of Hyphens, Dash, Parentheses
Writing Titles
FOR WRITING, SEE WRITING OVERVIEW TAB

February  FCAT WRITING ASSESSMENT

Literature

Unit Three  The Human Spirit/Voices of Courage( Beginning after FL WRITES)

DRAMA/Interview/ Autobiography

The Diary of Anne Frank                           

The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank     

All But My Life                                                         

 

Writer’s Notebook:

  • Background Knowledge Records
  • Collecting Quotations/Fave sentences
  • Word Histories
  • Illustrating Vocabulary
  • Reader’s Response
  • Story Boards 

Grammar

Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Conjunctions
Correlative Conjunctions
Interjections


MARCH-MAY:  FCAT!!! (March)

RULES OF THE GAME,

FOLKTALES UNIT,

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, (documentary novel)

House on Mango Street (Novel)

Research Project

Grammar

Clauses

Compound, Complex Sentences

Word Blunders


JUNE

ASSESSMENT


            





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