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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 |
Drama, Mixed Genre: Video, Audio study |
| Learning Outcomes |
Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Narrative text can be categorized and defined
- Multiple themes
- Literary devices can enhance meaning
- Figurative language can enhance meaning
Students will set up their Reading and Writing Notebooks
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Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Use URL’s, bookmarks, web sites as resources
- Provide and classify evidence when writing
- Provide background knowledge for a controversy
- attribute credit to sources
- paraphrase and quote appropriately
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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 during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- A universal theme
- How authors use real events to create drama
- Summarize key events of a play
- Analyze drama for elements and structure
- Determine a dramatic question
- Establish protagonist and antagonist
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| Significant Task |
- Write a literary analysis paper about a novel or short story read in class.
- Timed persuasive essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Take a stand on a controversial issue and write a convincing persuasive essay.
- Timed persuasive essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write five different types of poems & create a personal mini-poetry book.
- Using one poem and one song that deal with the same theme show how they are alike and how they are different.
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write a play based on a self-chosen topic.
- Timed CAPT- like essay.
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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| Content
Supporting Materials
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- Memoirs/personal narrative
- Autobiographies
- Poems
- Short stories
- Novels
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- Nonfiction reading:
- Newspapers
- Articles
- Essays
- Diaries,
- Informational text
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- Poetry
- Songs
- Reader’s Theatre scripts
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- Novels
- Fiction
- Plays
- Short stories
- Poetry
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