This is our first full week back to school and we will be starting our curriculum this week. Our theme this quarter is "Triumph and Tragedy". We will begin with understanding parts of a story, specifically elements of plot, conflict (internal and external), and setting.
Unit Goals
Literary Analysis
Reading
Writing and Grammar
Vocabulary
Unit Goals
Literary Analysis
- Identify stages of plot ; analyze plot development
- Identify and analyze setting
- Identify conflict, flashback, and foreshadowing
Reading
- Use reading strategies, including connecting and predicting
- Identify sequence and cause-and-effect relationships
- Identify patterns of organization, including chronological order
Writing and Grammar
- Write a description
- Avoid sentence fragments and run-on sentences
- Punctuate possessives correctly
- Maintain pronoun-antecedent agreement in number
Vocabulary
- Understand and use prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
- plot
- conflict
- setting
- sequence
- foreshadowing
- flashback
- cause and effect
- prefix, suffix, word root