Writing I

Writing I TIME 1st Marking Period

CONTENT/THEME Informational Texts

Fiction: Plot & Setting

CORE GOALS/SKILLS Reading Skills: • Understand and analyze elements of magazine articles. Synthesize information from several sources (written by one author) on a single topic • Identify and elaborate on main ideas • Understand the elements of an author’s argument. Identify the main ideas in a Text

STANDARD/ANCHOR

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1.1.11B 1.1.11D 1.1.11G 1.1.11H

Vocabulary Skills: • Understand word origins • Use context clues to understand specialized vocabulary • Identify prefixes

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1.1.11C 1.1.11E 1.1.11F

Writing Skills: • Synthesize main idea in writing • Respond to above reading skills in written format • Summarize text

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1.5.11A 1.5.11B 1.5.11C

Literary Skills • Understand & analyze plot structure, foreshadowing, flashback & setting. Reading Skills • Make predictions

R11.A.2.4.1

ASSESSMENT

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Quizzes Daily Writing Test Essay

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

The Holt Reader – 3rd Course Part II • • • • • •

A Hill Reveals Its Secrets D.H. Lawrence at Tarquinia Protecting the Past You Too Could Find a Dinosaur The Dinosaurs Weren’t All Alone What Caffeine Does to You

R11.A.1.2.1 R11.A.1.2.2

R11.A.2.5.1

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1.3.11.A 1.3.11.B 1.3.11.C (structure) 1.3.11.F

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1.5.11A 1.5.11B 1.5.11C 1.4.11A

The Holt Reading - 3rd Course Collection 1 • The Most Dangerous Game • Crime on Mars

Vocabulary Skills • Prefixes & word Origins Writing Skills • Summarize the plot of a given text. • Demonstrate plot structure and setting in original narrative. Writing: Development & Elaboration

Writing Skills • Develop Rubric • Brainstorming

R11.A.1.5.1 R11.B.1.1.1

3 Simple Truths and 6 essential Traits of Powerful Writing • Trait One: Development & Elaboration

Writing I TIME 2ND Marking Period

CONTENT/THEME

CORE GOALS/SKILLS

STANDARD/ANCHOR

ASSESSMENT

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Fiction: Character Reading Skills: • Make inferences Literary Skills • Understand how character traits are revealed through dialogue. • Recognize first person narrations. • Understand and analyze character motivation Vocabulary skills • Synonyms • Words in context

Writing: Organization

Writing Skills • Basic five-paragraph essay • Principles of organization • Types of organization • Writing and using an outline

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1.3.11.A 1.3.11.B 1.3.11.C 1.3.11.F

R11.A.1.3.1 R11.B.1.1.1 R11.B.1.2.1 R11.B.2.2.1 R.11.B.2.2.2

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The Holt Reader - 3rd Course Collection 2 • •

Thank You, M’am The White Umbrella

R11.A.1.1.2

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1.5.11A 1.5.11B 1.5.11C 1.4.11B 1.4.11C

R11.A.1.5.1

3 Simple Truths and 6 essential Traits of Powerful Writing • Trait Two: Organization

Writing I TIME 3rd Marking Period

CONTENT/THEME Fiction: Narrator & Voice

CORE GOALS/SKILLS

STANDARD/ANCHOR

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Reading Skills: • •

Monitor reading Draw Conclusions

Literary Skills • Recognize/analyze omniscient narrator. • Understand/interpret narrator’s voice. • Analyze credibility of narrator

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1.3.11.A 1.3.11.B 1.3.11.C 1.3.11.F

Writing Skills • Use a Thesaurus • Vivid, Specific, Concrete Words • Abstract and Concrete Terms • General and Specific Terms

R11.B.2.2.1 R11.B.2.2.2

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The Holt Reader - 3rd Course Collection 3 • •

The Interlopers My Delicate Heart Condition

R11.A.1.1.2

Vocabulary skills • Context clues • Literal and figurative meanings

Writing: Word Choice

ASSESSMENT

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1.5.11A 1.5.11B 1.5.11C 1.4.11B 1.4.11C

R11.A.1.5.1

3 Simple Truths and 6 essential Traits of Powerful Writing • Trait Five: Word Choice

Writing I TIME 4th Marking Period

CONTENT/THEME Fiction: Comparing Themes

CORE GOALS/SKILLS Reading Skills: • Make predictions • Make Inferences Literary Skills • Understand/analyze theme and conflict. • Understand/compare themes and genres.

STANDARD/ANCHOR

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1.3.11.A 1.3.11.B 1.3.11.C 1.3.11.F

Reading Skills • Strategies for reading a poem Literary Skills • Understand/analyze sensory imagery. • Understand/analyze figures of speech. • Understand/analyze: rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, meter and free verse.

Writing: Voice

Writing Skills • Examine samples of voice • Examining factors that determine voice •

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SUGGESTED RESOURCES

The Holt Reader - 3rd Course Collection 4 • • • •

The Sniper Thoughts of Hanoi The Mustache Fifteen

R11.A.1.2.2

Vocabulary skills • Word Origins • Words in context • Word roots

Fiction: Poetry

R11.A.1.3.1 R11.B.1.1.1 R11.B.1.2.1

ASSESSMENT

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1.3.11.A 1.3.11.B 1.3.11.C 1.3.11.D 1.3.11.F

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1.5.11A 1.5.11B 1.5.11C

R11.B.2.1.1 R11.B.2.1.2

R11.A.1.5.1

The Holt Reader - 3rd Course Collection 7 • A Blessing • The Sacred • Mooring • The Bat • This Morning • How I Learned English

3 Simple Truths and 6 essential Traits of Powerful Writing • Trait Six: Voice