1. Welcome to English IV
Mrs. Aebischer’s Class

2. What will we learn this year?

3. Reading Develop and apply skills and strategies to the reading process
Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of nonfiction from a variety of cultures and times
Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of fiction from a variety of cultures and times
Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of poetry from a variety of cultures and times
Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of drama from a variety of cultures and times

4. Writing
Compose various forms and types of well-developed texts using a writing process
Develop clear, focused ideas in their writing and support their ideas with specific details
Compose well-organized text with varied sentence structure
Compose text that clearly demonstrates voice and appropriate word choice
Use conventions appropriately when composing text

5. Vocabulary
Develop and apply the skills necessary to increase vocabulary, determine the meaning of unknown words in context, and determine word choice when writing

6. Information Literacy
Develop and apply effective research process skills to gather, analyze, and evaluate information

7. Listening and Speaking
Develop and apply effective listening and speaking skills and strategies

8. What will we do this year?

9. Reading Fallen Angels, Macbeth, other novels Poetry
Nonfiction articles

10. Writing Narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive texts
Constructed responses
Essays (including college scholarship, formal research, and literary analysis)
Journals
Summaries

11. Listening and Speaking
Presentations to the class, both formally and informally

12. Our goal this year is for all students to be successful.
This does not mean that everyone will earn an A, but everyone will have the opportunity to reach his or her personal level of success.

13. How will we reach our goal?
EFFORT
We all must put forth our best effort, even when the work is tough, in order to achieve success!
I cannot help you be successful if you do not help yourself by asking for help when needed and by putting forth effort in class and at home.