Course Overview

This course examines the concept of CHANGE. Individuals, families and society grow and change over the year intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally. Students begin to connect these experiences with the text they read and make connections

with their lives and lives of the characters real and fictional.

 

This course includes Reading, Writing, Oral Literacy and Collaborative skills and strategies to help students become independent readers, writers and learners. Students will respond to text, interpret and analyze text, and reflect on and evaluate the process and strategies they employ to make meaning of text. Students will express their ideas in a variety of imaginative/expressive and informative/persuasive texts. They will also learn to assess their own and other writers text.

 

The writing will focus on paragraph format with sophisticated topic sentences, narrative writing, letter writing and character analysis. Students will learn and practice reflection, revision, research and persuasion