ENGLISH READING WRITING LANGUAGE ARTS’ 2016 ENGLISH READING WRITING

MAJOR ENGLISH CONCEPTS KINDS OF SENTENCES SIMPLE SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES IMPERATIVES AND INTERROGATIVES COMPOUND SUBJECTS COMPOUND PREDICATES COMPOUND SENTENCES COMPLEX SENTENCES FRAGMENTS AND RUN-ON S   RECOGNIZING NOUNS COMMON NOUNS PROPER NOUNS WRITING WITH NOUNS – APPOSITIVES SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS POSSESSIVE NOUNS PLURAL POSSESSIVE NOUNS ACTION VERBS MAIN VERBS AND HELPING VERBS DIRECT OBJECTS TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSATIVE VERBS LINKING VERBS

MAJOR ENGLISH CONCEPTS SIMPLE VERB TENSES PERFECT TENSES REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT WRITING SENTENCES WITH VERBS   PRONOUNS ANTECEDENTS SUBJECT AND OBJECT PRONOUNS COMPOUND SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS PRONOUNS AND A LINKING VERB PREPOSITIONS ADJECTIVE PHRASES ADVERB PHRASES WRITING WITH PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES PREPOSITION OR ADVERB USING PREPOSITIONS CORRECTLY

MAJOR READING CONCEPTS UNIT 1: INDENTIFY TEXT STRUCTURE CHRONOLOGY COMPARE AND CONTRAST CAUSE AND EFFECT PROBLEM AND SOLUTION SEQUENCE/PROCESS SPATIAL/DESCRIPTIVE TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS

MAJOR READING CONCEPTS UNIT 2: TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS NARRATIVE WRITING ANTAGONIST CONFLICT CLIMAX EXPOSITION RISING ACTION FALLING ACTION RESOLUTION

MAJOR READING CONCEPTS UNIT 3: TEXT DEPENDENT ANALYSIS POETRY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE – SIMILE, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, ALLITERATION, IDIOM, HYPERBOLE, ONOMATOPOEIA TONE MOOD

MAJOR READING CONCEPTS UNIT 4 Analyzing the types of media Author’s Bias Propaganda Synthesizing

MAJOR READING CONCEPTS UNIT 5: AUTHOR’S POINT OF VIEW AUTHOR’S ARGUMENTS AUTHOR’S CRAFT

GRADES Quizzes on concepts Unit tests on concepts Process writing pieces Reflective writings Performance tasks Close Reading assignments

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