English Reading and writing (G8 Spring Class)-2 students

Description

Course Description

Students will be able to develop various writing and reading skills developed with the advanced student in mind such as Argumentative writing, Informative writing, Narrative writing, Response to text and the Research Paper.

What you’ll learn?

• Students will be able to develop various writing and reading skills developed with the advanced student in mind such as Argumentative  writing , writing claims, opposing claims, logical reasoning, keeping an academic tone.
• Informative writing (introduce topic clearly, organize ideas, concepts and information utilizing graphics and multimedia.
• Narrative writing (introducing the narrator, sequence of events, plot, suspense, dialogue, pacing, conclusion.)
• Response to text (analyzing and writing about poetry and literature.).
• Research Paper (choosing a controversial topic, finding credible evidence, MLA citation and intext citation with work cited page.)

Target Students:

7-8th graders

Course Breakdown

Lesson 1: African literature (Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.) (trial class)

Lesson 2: African literature continued

Lesson 3: Types of energy (evidence – based research)

Lesson 4: Native American History (Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.)

Lesson 5: Biomes (Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.)

Lesson 6: Shopping (Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.)

Lesson 7: Genetics / Diseases (Introduce a topic;

organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect)

Lesson 8: Wars in our History (Analyze in detail how a

key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text)

Lesson 9: Wars in our History (continued)

Lesson 10: Universe / Extraterrestrial life

Lesson 11: Holocaust (Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details)

Lesson 12: Holocaust (continued)

Lesson 13: Nutrition and Self – Care (Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style)

Lesson 14: Technology (Use precise language and domain- specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.)

Lesson 15: Synonym / Antonym and Context Clues

Lesson 16: Holidays (Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.)

Lesson 17: Olympics (Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.)

Lesson 18: Review / Assessment / Elaboration

About the teacher

Mr Ray , 7 years of teaching experience, worked at  local middle school as an English Language Arts Teacher . He taught 6th-12th grade students reading and writing for literature and informational texts. His teaching philosophy is to see to every student’s unique needs and demands. He like to use wide range of formative and summative class activities to closely monitor students’ growth. In 2017-2018, he worked with 22% on-grade-level students at the beginning of the school year. By the end of the year, the End Of Grade Exam data have shown that 64%  of his students have achieved on/above Grade level. 

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