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Writing lessons and allotted time are usually on Wednesday and
Thursday.
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The Writing Process
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Journals
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Using Rubrics
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Peer Responding
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Narrative Writing (Memoirs)
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
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Compose using prepositional phrases
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Compose using compound sentences
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Compose using complex sentences
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Use compound-complex sentences to vary sentence structure.
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Identify the correct use of degrees of comparison, adjectives and
adverb forms
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Apply mechanics in writing, including using quotation marks
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Use underlining and italics to punctuate titles
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Reading lessons and allotted time are usually on Monday and Tuesday.
Tiger Pause = Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)à
Choice Novel, newspapers, etc.
Reading Responses are assigned for self-selected or teacher-assigned
reading.
Literature Book selections (Short Story Unit).
Various Reading Comprehension Strategies |
We will read a variety of poetry, essays, short stories, and
children’s literature to support our writing and Reading objectives.
Required Text #1
•Short Story Unit
Required Text #2
•Choice: Autobiography or
Biography
Required Text #3
•Charlotte Doyle
Students will be allowed Tiger Pause (SSR) time regularly.
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Poetry
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Persuasive Writing
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Journals
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Descriptive Writing
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
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Identify compound subjects, including those joined by or
with the second element as singular or plural
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Apply subject-verb agreement rules with
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collective nouns
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nouns compound in form but singular in meaning
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compound subjects joined by
correlative and coordinating conjunctions
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subjects plural in form but singular in meaning
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Use commas to join two independent clauses
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Use commas to correct run-on sentences
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Use semicolons with conjunctive adverbs
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Verbs & Usage
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Tiger Pause = Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)à
Choice Novel, newspapers, etc.
Reading Responses are assigned for self-selected or teacher-assigned
reading.
How to read poetry
Various Reading Comprehension Strategies |
Required Text #4
• A Day No
Pigs Would Die
Required text #5
•Choice:
Fictional Piece
(character analysis)
Required Text #6
• Poetry Unit
Students will be allowed Tiger Pause (SSR) time regularly.
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Expository Writing
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Research
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Journals
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Business Letters
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
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Recognizing active and passive voice in writing
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Recognize sentence patterns and structures
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subject→verb
(S→V)
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subject→action verb→direct
object (S→AV→DO)
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subject→action
verb→indirect object→direct
object (S→AV→IO→DO)
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subject→linking verb→predicate
nominative (S→LV→PN)
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subject→linking
verb→predicate
adjective (S→LV→PA)
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Reading Responses are assigned for self-selected or teacher-assigned
reading.
Literature Book selections.
Various Reading Comprehension Strategies |
Required Text #7
• The Giver
Required Text #8
• Trickster/Fairy Tales
Students will be allowed Tiger Pause (SSR) time regularly.
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Journals
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Fiction Writing
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
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Use and identify gerunds
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Use and identify infinitives
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Use participles in writing
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Recognize parallelism in phrases and clauses
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Use subject-verb agreement with collective nouns when verb forms
depend on the rest of the sentence
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Use commas to set off nonessential clauses and appositives in
writing
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Diagramming Sentences
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Reading Responses are due weekly for self-selected reading.
Literature Book selections.
Various Reading Comprehension Strategies |
Required Text #9
•The Outsiders
Required Text #10
•Various Non-Fiction selections from Holocaust Literature
Required Text #11
•Soldier Boys
Required Text #12
•Play: Anne Frank
Students will be allowed Tiger Pause (SSR) time regularly.
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