March 14-17 Reading: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in a text. Grammar: Paragraphs, topic sentences, and details. Writing: Informational essays.
March 6-9 Reading: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g. opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g. the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Grammar: Idioms, adages, and proverbs. Writing: Informational essays.
February 27-March 3 Reading: Allusions in mythology Grammar: Figurative Language: Idioms/Adages/Proverbs Writing: Informational essays.
February 22-24 Reading: Explain differences between prose/poems/drama Grammar: Figurative Language: Similes/Metaphors Writing: Informational essays.
February 13-16 Reading: Make connections between text, visual, and oral presentations. Grammar: Past and future verbs. Writing: Informational essays.
January 30-February 10 NO ESOL CLASSES DUE TO ESOL TESTING.
January 23-27 Reading: Compare and contrast different accounts of the same event or topic. Grammar: Past, present, and future progressive verbs. Writing: Informational essays.
January 17-20 Reading: Compare and contrast different accounts of the same event or topic. Grammar: Past, present, and future tense verbs. Writing: Informational essays.
January 9-13 Reading: Compare and contrast different accounts of the same event or topic. Grammar: Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g. to, too, two, their, there, etc.) Writing: Informational essays
December 19-22 Reading: Describe the overall strucutre (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. Grammar: Relative adverbs Writing: Opinion essays
December 12-16 Reading: Describe the overall strucutre (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. Grammar: Adverbs Writing: Opinion persuasion
December 5-9 Reading: Describe the overall strucutre (e.g. chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. Grammar: Relative pronouns. Writing: Opinion/persuasion
November 28-December 2 Reading: Academic Language Grammar: Pronouns, Antecedent agreement Writing: Opinion/persuasion
November 14-18 Reading: Understand details and examples from texts through explicit language and inferences. Grammar: Complex sentences Writing: Opinion/persuasion
November 9-11 Reading: Understanding context clues to help with comprehension. Grammar: Past, present, and future verb tense. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
October 31-November 4 Reading: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. Grammar: Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
October 24-28 Reading: Compare/contrast similar themes and topics in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Grammar: Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
October 17-21 Reading: Describe characters, setting, or events in a text. Grammar: Prepositions. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
October 12-14 Reading: Text features. Grammar: Adjectives. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
October 3-7 Reading: Understanding explicit information as well as inferences in a text. Grammar: Ordering adjectives within sentences. Writing: Opinion/persuasion.
IN WRITING, WE ARE CONTINUING PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING. As in every unit, our writing includes working on the writing process, which includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and proofreading, and publishing.
September 26-30 Reading: Determining the main idea and details of a text; summarizing. Grammar: Complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons. Writing: Narratives.