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Quarter 1 |
Quarter 2 |
Quarter 3 |
Quarter 4 |
| Unit Titles |
Fiction, Novels, Short Stories and Poetry study |
Nonfiction reading and writing, articles and essays study |
Poetry, Reading Workshop, and/or Reader’s Theater study |
Memoir, personal narrative, biography and autobiography study |
| Learning Outcomes |
Students will learn during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- determining themes
- author’s values and character’s values
- figurative language
- organization of fiction to effectively tell a story
Students will set up their Reading and Writing Notebooks
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Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Distinguish own ideas from sources
- Nonfiction text structures
- Attributes credit to sources
- Uses quotation and paraphrases appropriately
- analyze literary elements in text
- take a stand on an issue
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Students will learn and understand during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- poetic language
- poetic devices that are used to convey ideas, feelings and images
- increasing fluency by using Reader’s Theater
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Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- analyze literary elements in text
- recognize the contribution of point of view to comprehension
- make connections to reading
- recognize main ideas and themes in text
- write multiple drafts
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| Significant Task |
- Novel Review: Students will choose a novel they have read and write a review.
- Timed persuasive essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write a nonfiction piece.
- Timed expository or comparison essay.
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write five different types of poems & create a personal mini-poetry book
- Compare & contrast a poem and one song with the same theme and how each piece deals with the theme
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write a personal narrative
- Timed expository piece
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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| Content
Supporting Materials
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- Novels
- Fiction
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Memoirs/personal narrative
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- Nonfiction reading
- Newspapers
- Articles
- Essays
- Diaries,
- Informational text
- Journal entries,
- How-to essays
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- Poetry
- Songs
- Reader’s Theatre scripts
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- Memoirs/personal narrative
- Autobiographies
- Poems
- Short stories
- interviews
- Novels
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