| English Language Arts and Reading Strategies |  |  | | "Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid of standing still." Chinese proverb |
Students will work on strategies and practice skills to become more
fluent readers, and to get more meaning from the text they will be
reading. Students will be using a variety of materials that will have
real-life meaning for them, including Reader's and Writer's workshop, Vocabulary Building and AMP (Achieving Maximum Potential).
During the school year, students will be taking a closer  | | "Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still." T. S. Eliot |
look at different authors and types of books. As part of the state Language Arts standards, students will be writing responses to what they are reading, using a reader's response journal. Students will also be writing from their own experiences by creating narrative and persuasive essays, using the six-step writing process. (Brain-storming, drafting, editing, rewriting, proofreading, publishing.)
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| | | | | English/Language Arts | Topics covered will be Power and Justice in the World: What is Power?, Political Power, Community Power, and Personal Power. As a class, students will read novels that focus on the topic of power. Writing standards will be met by creation and research of narrative and persuasive essays with the focus on sentence structure; vocabulary; voice, diction and syntax; and main idea.
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| Reading Strategies | Reading Strategies will focus on meeting the standards by studying vocabulary, main idea, cause and effect, questioning, predicting, summarizing, author's purpose, inference and meta-cognition. Students will work in small groups and as a class. Students will be expected to read independently in novels of their choice as part of the requirement for this class.
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