Course description:
Welcome to an exciting new year at Learning Unlimited! I am extremely happy to have you in my class and I look forward to working with each and everyone of you. Throughout this course, students will study universal themes presented through variety of literary genres, including the novel, the short story,poetry and non-fiction.Resources will encompass the textbook, handouts, as well as online documents. Students will continue their study of grammar and mechanics with particular emphasis on applying grammar rules in their writing. A variety of writing assignments will allow students to expand their thinking through composition, exploring the ideas of writers and their reactions to those ideas.
Academic Goals:
What you are going to need for the class:
Grading
Tests 25%
Writing/Essays 25%
Classwork 20%
Quiz 20%
Homework 10%
Quiz/test days are Mondays and Thursdays.
Welcome to an exciting new year at Learning Unlimited! I am extremely happy to have you in my class and I look forward to working with each and everyone of you. Throughout this course, students will study universal themes presented through variety of literary genres, including the novel, the short story,poetry and non-fiction.Resources will encompass the textbook, handouts, as well as online documents. Students will continue their study of grammar and mechanics with particular emphasis on applying grammar rules in their writing. A variety of writing assignments will allow students to expand their thinking through composition, exploring the ideas of writers and their reactions to those ideas.
Academic Goals:
- To improve writing skills
- To imrpove grammar, usage and mechanics
- To improve reading and literary skills
- To improve skills necessary for literary analysis; the application of literary elements and terms
- To increase dependance on oneself for learning and acquisition of knowledge and skills
- To increase independance as a learner with an understanding that a broad knowledge base is beneficial for a wide variety of reasons and that learning is a life-long endeavour.
What you are going to need for the class:
- 3 notebooks (notes, journal,reading log)
- novels
- 3 ring binder and college rule paper (Writing Workshop)
- binder for handouts, homework, graded assignments
- pencils
- erasers
- colored pencils, scissors, glue
- highlighter
Grading
Tests 25%
Writing/Essays 25%
Classwork 20%
Quiz 20%
Homework 10%
Quiz/test days are Mondays and Thursdays.
Q1 Overview
“Be kind, have courage and always believe in a little magic.”
"Cinderella", Brothers Grimm
* Writing: Argumentative Essay
* Novel Study: Grimm's Fairy Tales
* Grammar Study: Sentence Structure, Nouns, Literary Elements.
“Be kind, have courage and always believe in a little magic.”
"Cinderella", Brothers Grimm
* Writing: Argumentative Essay
* Novel Study: Grimm's Fairy Tales
* Grammar Study: Sentence Structure, Nouns, Literary Elements.
Q2 Overview
“Curiouser and curiouser.”
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll
* Writing: Narrative Essay
* Novel Study: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Grammar Study: Pronouns, Verbs, Literary Elements.
“Curiouser and curiouser.”
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll
* Writing: Narrative Essay
* Novel Study: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Grammar Study: Pronouns, Verbs, Literary Elements.
Q4 Overview
“The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?” "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", e.l.koningsburg * Writing: Argumentative Essay * Novel Study: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler * Punctuation Unit |
Study guides
Verbs (notes)
Grammar Unit:
Pronouns (Chart)
Grammar Unit 2:
Proper Adjectives, articles, and demonstrative adjectives
Adjectives That Compare
Cumulative Adjectives
Adverbs modifying verbs
Adverbs modifying adjectives and adverbs
Adverbs that Compare
Irregular Comparative Forms
Telling Adjectives and Adverbs apart I
Telling Adjectives and Adverbs apart II
Subject - Verb agreement
Subject -Verb Agreement 2
Interjections
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Prepositional Phrases 2
Pronouns after prepositions
Prepositions and adverbs