Standard
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Description
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Quarter 1
Assessment: Reading Level Test, Diagnostic Test, Benchmark1
Writing: Autobiographical Incident, Summary
Unit/Key Pieces: Fiction/Non-Fiction (1) Short Stories (2)
“Charles”(336)
“Raymond’s Run”(27)
“The Tell Tale Heart”(293)
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Quarter 2
Assessment: Benchmark2
Writing: Response to Literature
Unit/Key Pieces:
Non-Fiction (3)
Drama (5)
Poetry (4-Lit Terms)
“Anne Frank” (848)
Maus I
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Quarter 3
Assessment: Benchmark3
Writing: Persuasive, Letter
Unit/Key Pieces:
Non-Fiction (3)
Poetry (4)
The Outsiders
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CSTs
Assessment: CST Prep, Buckledown, CAHSEE; Literary Terms Jeopardy
Testing Movie
“Freedom Writers”
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Quarter 4
Assessment: CST
Writing: Research Report, Outline
Unit/Key Pieces:
Themes in Am. Stories (6)
The Giver
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Word Analysis 1.1
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Analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes
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Projects: Graph of Life Events, Literary Terms Dictionary
Writing: Format of an Essay, Autobiographical, Summary
Grammar: Parts of Speech, Subject/Predicate, and Parallelism
Listening: Song Analysis
Speaking: Q&A;, Oral Presentations
Big Question 1: Is the truth the same for everyone?
Big Question 2: Can all conflicts be resolved?
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Projects: Maus I Game
Writing: Summary of Holocaust, Response to Literature “RR”, Review Essay Format
Grammar: Parallelism, Types of Sentences, Punctuation
Listening: Song Analysis, Movie Analysis-“Anne Frank”, Book Analysis
Speaking: Q&A;
Novel: Maus I
Big Question 3: How much information is enough?
Big Question 4: What is the secret to reaching someone with words?
Big Question 5: Is it our differences or similarities that matter most?
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Projects: The Outsiders Soundtrack
Writing: Persuasive (Action magazine), Persuasive Current Issues
Grammar: Punctuation and Revision (Correcting Essays), Appositives
Listening: Song Analysis, Movie Analysis-The Outsiders, Advertisement Analysis
Speaking: Q&A;, Oral Presentations
Novel: The Outsiders
Big Question 3: How much information is enough?
Big Question 4: What is the secret to reaching someone with words?
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2
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Projects: Research Report, What Song Represents You?
Writing: Research Report
Grammar: Parallelism, Revision
Listening: Song Analysis, Movie Analysis-“Pleasantville”
Speaking: Q&A;, Oral Presentations
Novel: The Giver
Big Question 6: Are yesterday’s heroes important today?
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Word Analysis 1.2
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Word origins
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2
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Word Analysis 1.3
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Use context clues
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5
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Reading Comprehension 2.1
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Features of consumer materials and documents
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2
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Reading Comprehension 2.2
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Analyze text that uses proposition and support patterns
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3
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Reading Comprehension 2.3
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Find similarities and differences between texts
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2
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Reading Comprehension 2.4
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Compare original text to summary
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2
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Reading Comprehension 2.5
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Understand and explain technical directions
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3
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Reading Comprehension 2.6
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Use information to solve a problem from consumer documents
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3
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Reading Comprehension 2.7
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Evaluate text structure
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3
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Literary Analysis 3.1
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Determine relationship of poetry (e.g., ballad, lyric, couplet, epic, elegy, ode, sonnet)
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2
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Literary Analysis 3.2
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Evaluate plot
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3
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Literary Analysis 3.3
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Compare and contrast characters through history
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2
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Literary Analysis 3.4
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Analyze the relevance of the setting to mood, tone, and meaning of text
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2
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Literary Analysis 3.5
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Identify and analyze recurring themes
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1
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Literary Analysis 3.6
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Identify and interpret significant literary devices
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3
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Literary Analysis 3.7
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Analyze a work of literature based on the author
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2
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Written Conventions 1.1
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Use correct and varied sentence types and openings
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2
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Written Conventions 1.2
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Identify and use parallelism
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2
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Written Conventions 1.3
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Use subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices
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3
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Written Conventions 1.4
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Edit for grammar
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3
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Written Conventions 1.5
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Punctuation and capitalization
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3
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Written Conventions 1.6
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Spelling conventions
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3
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Writing Strategies 1.1
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Essay structure (beginning, thesis, support, and conclusion)
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4
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Writing Strategies 1.2
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Paragraph structure
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4
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Writing Strategies 1.3
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Support theses or conclusions
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3
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Writing Strategies 1.6
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Revision for word choice, organization, point of view, and transitions
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6
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Formative Standard Focus
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School City
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1. RL 3.2, EC 1.4
2. RL 3.6, WC 1.6
3. RW 1.3, RC 2.5
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4. RL 3.2, WS 1.1
5. RC 2.2, WS 1.2
6. RC 2.6, WC 1.3
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7. RW 1.3, RC 2.7
8. RL 3.3, WS 1.1
9. RL 3.4, WS 1.2
10. RL 3.7, WS 1.6
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Academic Language Vocabulary (Test Prep)
Analyze: study very carefully
Classify: arrange into categories based on similarities
Compare: show how things are similar or how they are different
Contrast: show how things are different
Critique: review something and point out the good and the bad points
Define: explain the meaning of a term
Describe: explain something with detail
Determine: decide about something
Diagram: make a drawing of something and label the parts
Discuss: a complete and detailed explanation
Distinguish: to set apart as different
Establish: prove or decide something
Evaluate: determine the value of something; give your opinion about the subject
Explain: give the meaning of something in order to make it clear
Identify: select something based on the criteria established
Illustrate: giving examples; draw a picture
Infer: draw conclusions based on facts
Integrate: combine parts into a whole
Interpret: explain the meaning of something
Justify: give reasons to support a decision
Observe: examine and note what is seen
Order: put things into the correct place or sequence
Outline: an organized summary of the main ideas
Predict: a guess about what will happen in the future
Prove: give facts or reasons to show that something is true
Recall: remember something that was known before
Relate: show how things are alike or how they are connected
Represent: something that stands for or symbolizes something else
Restructure: put things into a new, more appropriate format
State: give the main points in a clear, brief form
Summarize: give a brief account, including only important information and leaving out needless details
Trace: tell about an event or process in a logical order
Verify: make sure that the answer or ideas are accurate by using facts and evidence
Literary and Other Terms to Cover
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Antagonist
Author’s Purpose
Characterization: static, dynamic
Connotation
Denotation
Figurative
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Genre
Hyperbole
Idiom
Imagery
Irony
Literal
Metaphor
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Personification
Plot: exposition, setting, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution
Poetry: ballad, lyric, couplet, epic, elegy, ode, sonnet, stanza
Point of View
Protagonist
Roots (Greek and Latin)
Simile
Symbolism
Theme
Thesis
Tone
Transition/Transition Words
