ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
English 6 analyzes informational texts, including biographies, primary documents, instructional documents, film reviews, and persuasive letters. Reading selections demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, central ideas and key details, and claims and arguments. Students also read and analyze literary texts from a number of genres, including a novel, excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and plays. The course’s reading selections demonstrate ways to understand characters, plot, explicit and implicit information, theme, poetic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts.
ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
English 7 explores informational texts, including biographies, personal accounts of events, presidential speeches, and persuasive letters. Readings include texts about historical figures used to demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, central ideas and key details, and claims and arguments. These texts demonstrate ways to understand explicit and implicit information, theme, characters, plot, poetic and dramatic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts. While reading novels, short stories, poems, and plays in this course, students identify central ideas and themes; make inferences; analyze word choice; identify figurative, connotative, and sensory language; and compare and contrast different text mediums. In addition, they learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, including correct spelling, misplaced and dangling modifiers, and precise and concise language. Lastly, students learn the elements of narrative writing so that they can plan, create, write, revise, and edit their own personal narrative. Students also learn about different forms of poetry and their characteristics.
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.
