This week we are starting a new unit over theme.
Unit Goals
Key Question: What's the BIG IDEA?
Literary Analysis
Reading
Writing and Grammar
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
Unit Goals
Key Question: What's the BIG IDEA?
Literary Analysis
- Distinguish topic from theme
- Identify theme, including universal and recurring theme
- Compare and contrast themes and characters
- Identify and interpret symbols
Reading
- Use reading strategies, including monitoring and setting a purpose for reading
- Make inferences
- Identify and analyze cause and effect and sequence
Writing and Grammar
- Write a short story
- Use coordinating conjunctions to join sentences
- Combine dependent and independent clauses
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing
- Compare a film with a play
- Design a DVD cover
- Dramatize a short story
Vocabulary
- Understand and use denotation and connotation of words
- Use general context clues to understand word meaning
Academic Vocabulary
- topic
- theme
- symbol
- cause and effect
- sequence
- make inferences
- compare and contrast
- clauses