| Curriculum Overview |
Student Materials: |
Two sharpened pencils and two pens in class each day
One 2-pocket folder (no brads in center)
A 1" binder and a set of binder dividers (to hold syllabus and portfolio samples)
One computer disc, that is to remain in the binder at school at all times
Dictionary and/or Thesaurus
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Curriculum |
First Semester:
Personal Experience Narrative
Formal Communication: (letters, messages, directions, etc., addressing specific audience and using appropriate format)
5-Paragraph Essays
Literary Response: Lit Study (outlines and drafts), Literary Reviews (outlines and drafts)
Research Report
Expository Essay (District Assessment)
Speech/formal presentation (outlines and drafts)
Prepare to publish pieces (may be a letter to a public newspaper, a published poem, a published essay etc.)
Self and Peer Evaluations
Second Semester:
Parenthetical annotated Summary
Persuasive Essay (District Assessment)
Thesis Project
Examples of the modes of writing
Inventions Project (February)
Project Citizen Project
5-Paragraph Essays
Literary Responses
Newspaper item (Ink on Trees and a letter to editor for public paper)
Speech/formal presentation (outlines or drafts)
Evaluations
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Portfolio Guidelines |
Each student is to provide a 1" three ring notebook, that will be kept in the gray cabinet in the Language Arts classroom, and in which students will place finished/revised pieces of work, as well as final, graded assessments, that demonstrate their competency in the Arizona Standards.
At the end of the school year, students will each bind their completed showcase portfolio, which will then be graded as part of their final exam for the class.
Every student is expected to maintain an organized portfolio that includes all required items listed in the "Binder Guidelines."
Binder Guidelines:
1. ____ Language Arts guidelines page
2. ____ The Arizona Language Arts Standards
3. ____ Four quarter dividers, labeled 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, 4th quarter
(Behind each quarter divider students will place:)
_____ Page 1- Goal statements for each quarter
_____ Finished work for quarter with Standards code written in the heading
_____ All assessments for the quarter
_____ Samples of best work for the quarter
_____ Quarterly self-evaluation review forms
4. Appendix to include:
____ Six Traits for Reading and Writing
____ Production and assessment rubrics
____ Resources
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