ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
In this course, students read and analyze literary and informational texts. These texts will come from a number of genres and sources, including short stories, novels, myths, poems, magazine articles, and autobiographies. As students read the selections in the course, they practice ways to use supporting evidence, identify central ideas, make inferences, analyze word choice, and identify figurative and connotative language in both literary and informational texts. In addition, students learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation. Course content also includes context clues to determine word meaning as well as Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Students complete a narrative writing project, learning the elements of a fictional narrative and use that information to plan, write, revise, and edit their own fictional narrative. Students will explore both literary and informational texts to discover how each communicates its unique message to the audience. Students will deepen their understanding of writing by learning about authors’ tools like figurative language and implied meaning. They will also gain experience with the bigger picture by learning about the works’ central ideas and themes.
