1st Quarter
Close and Critical Reading of Fiction
2nd Quarter
Reading Informational Text Strategically (Focus on Civil and Human Rights)
3rd Quarter
4th Quarter
Parents: Ask your student to take you for a tour. Assignments and learning tools are posted regularly.
Many assignments are completed, turned in, evaluated, and returned to students using Google Classroom.
Close and Critical Reading of Fiction
- "Two Kinds," "Rules of the Game," and "A River Runs Through It" (Short Stories)
- Literary Essay in response to two pieces
2nd Quarter
Reading Informational Text Strategically (Focus on Civil and Human Rights)
- Music and Poetry
- Speeches
- Literary Non-fiction
- Historical Documents and Article
- Author Slideshow
- Discussion Quizzes
- Multi-paragraph Analysis
3rd Quarter
- Read seed texts to form a research question.
- Move through the research process,
- Construct an I-Search Project.
4th Quarter
- Independent reading of memoir, biography, autobiography.
- Construct a one-pager as a response to reading.
- The Literary Hero (targets deeper levels of knowledge)
- Read and respond to Beowulf (collaborative effort in groups).
- View and analyze MacBeth.
- Student assignments are now on Google Classroom.
Parents: Ask your student to take you for a tour. Assignments and learning tools are posted regularly.
Many assignments are completed, turned in, evaluated, and returned to students using Google Classroom.