1. ENGLISH READING WRITING
LANGUAGE ARTS’ 2016
ENGLISH
READING
WRITING

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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