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Module 1
Chapter One: By junior year in high school, much learning occurs through reading and writing across subject areas. Through use of a comprehensive ELA curriculum, your child will work toward competence in reading and writing strategies and skills. Here are some reading goals and objectives for your scholar: • Identify central themes and elements within a work of literature. • Analyze how rhetorical techniques, point of view, and/or word choice and tone contribute to the meaning of a text. • Make inferences, draw conclusions, and determine the author’s purpose based on evidence in a text. • Analyze how the author’s use of text structures, imagery, suspense, stream of consciousness, humor, and sequence of events affect meaning and emotion. • Assess how an author develops character’s traits and motivations, as well as setting and plot, over the course of a narrative. • Analyze context to clarify the meaning of words in a text. • Compare and contrast two works of literature from the same genre, two texts of different genres about the same topic, or two different works from the same author. Writing Goals/Objectives As 11th graders prepare for college and career, the ability to write well becomes increasingly important. Those seeking college admission will present a first impression through the writing of their college essays. Writing skills are often noted as being both important for employment and lacking in many high school and college graduates. Your 11th grade language arts curriculum should help your child meet writing goals and objectives like these: • Vary sentence patterns to enhance meaning, style, and the reader’s experience. • Use a graphic organizer as a pre-writing tool to organize the narrative sequence of a significant event. • Formulate and write a thesis statement to support a claim. • Write narrative, informative, and argumentative essays. • Compose a five-paragraph literary analysis that draws evidence from a literary text. • Apply strategies for gathering, organizing, and evaluating sources for research writing. • Use MLA citation correctly. • Revise, edit, and rewrite for ideas, organization, and voice. Grammar Goals/Objectives As upcoming high graduates, 11th graders need to be able to convey what they mean through writing that is free from errors. Additional grammar goals and objectives for 11th grade language arts include: • Recognize and correct shifts in verb tense and subject-verb agreement errors. • Edit writing to identify and correct spelling errors. • Use subject, object, possessive, and intensive pronouns properly. • Apply proper punctuation for emphasis/effect and to set off elements. • Identify parallel structure and revise sentences for correct parallelism. • Locate and correct dangling, misplaced, and troublesome modifiers. • Edit and rewrite for sentence fluency and word choice.
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Writing is a critical communication skill. Universities and employers frequently complain that writing is an underdeveloped skill. Writing provides big gains in reading comprehension and reading fluency. Writing also improves students’ reading fluency. When students must stop and think about what spelling patterns to use when they write, they are making a deeper connection in their brains about sound and spelling patterns. This deeper connection makes it easier, and faster, for students to recall those same patterns when they read. Written language is literally a secret code that someone made up to represent spoken sounds. The more students think about and practice the code in written form, the better they will be at understanding the same code in writing. Fluent readers more deeply understand that code.
In this course, students will engage in a series of writing strategies to improves reading comprehension and writing skills. Students will focus on developing critical thinking skills in genre such as argumentative and narrative writing. When students write argumentative essays, they learn how authors often lay out their arguments and evidence. Students will will develop a framework, which will help to fill in the blanks and improves comprehension. When students write narrative pieces, they develop an understanding of how authors typically lay out character development, setting, plot, problems, turning points, and resolutions. Again, students have a framework to build upon when they read others’ narrative texts.
Course Features
- Lectures 75
- Quizzes 15
- Duration 20 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
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Module 1
Chapter One: By junior year in high school, much learning occurs through reading and writing across subject areas. Through use of a comprehensive ELA curriculum, your child will work toward competence in reading and writing strategies and skills. Here are some reading goals and objectives for your scholar: • Identify central themes and elements within a work of literature. • Analyze how rhetorical techniques, point of view, and/or word choice and tone contribute to the meaning of a text. • Make inferences, draw conclusions, and determine the author’s purpose based on evidence in a text. • Analyze how the author’s use of text structures, imagery, suspense, stream of consciousness, humor, and sequence of events affect meaning and emotion. • Assess how an author develops character’s traits and motivations, as well as setting and plot, over the course of a narrative. • Analyze context to clarify the meaning of words in a text. • Compare and contrast two works of literature from the same genre, two texts of different genres about the same topic, or two different works from the same author. Writing Goals/Objectives As 11th graders prepare for college and career, the ability to write well becomes increasingly important. Those seeking college admission will present a first impression through the writing of their college essays. Writing skills are often noted as being both important for employment and lacking in many high school and college graduates. Your 11th grade language arts curriculum should help your child meet writing goals and objectives like these: • Vary sentence patterns to enhance meaning, style, and the reader’s experience. • Use a graphic organizer as a pre-writing tool to organize the narrative sequence of a significant event. • Formulate and write a thesis statement to support a claim. • Write narrative, informative, and argumentative essays. • Compose a five-paragraph literary analysis that draws evidence from a literary text. • Apply strategies for gathering, organizing, and evaluating sources for research writing. • Use MLA citation correctly. • Revise, edit, and rewrite for ideas, organization, and voice. Grammar Goals/Objectives As upcoming high graduates, 11th graders need to be able to convey what they mean through writing that is free from errors. Additional grammar goals and objectives for 11th grade language arts include: • Recognize and correct shifts in verb tense and subject-verb agreement errors. • Edit writing to identify and correct spelling errors. • Use subject, object, possessive, and intensive pronouns properly. • Apply proper punctuation for emphasis/effect and to set off elements. • Identify parallel structure and revise sentences for correct parallelism. • Locate and correct dangling, misplaced, and troublesome modifiers. • Edit and rewrite for sentence fluency and word choice.
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