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Karen Kielbon
2nd Trimester Language Arts
Reading Skills: Understanding author's purpose & style
- style impact reader's enjoyment & comprehension
- details support comprehension
- tone impacts comprehension
- Persuasive devices
- Author's perspective
- biographies & history
- Understanding literary devices: irony, simile, metaphor, idiom, sarcasm, humor, exaggeration, dialogue
- Determin what is important for understanding and answering essential questions
Writing Skills:
I introduce how to write a PERSUASIVE ESSAY
Rubrics: Content & Conventions
- All students will compose a five paragraph persuasive essay!
- Most students will use counter arguments in speaking and writing!
- Many students will use counter-counter arguments in their speaking and writing!
Terms I will use include:
thesis, topic sentence, support of opinion, examples, quotes, counter argument...counter, counter argument
Continued skill development:
- continued...grammar: We have practiced identifying sentences and fragments and use of the semicolon
- parallel construction
- continued...word choice
- continued....capitalization
- continued....elaboration through examples, anecdotes, facts, quotes
- Use of transition words and phrases in speaking and writing
Grammar includes:
- sentence structure
- identification of subject/predicate/prepositions and prepositional phrases/ object of the preposition
- adjectives/ adverbs
- compound sentences/subjects/predicates
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Literature Stories and Writing Reminders
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"Appearances are Destructive" p. 792
A persuasive essay
"Luke Baldwin's Vow" p. 542
Coming of Age story
"Streams to the River, River to the Sea" by S. O'Dell
NOVEL: Social Studies Connections
REQUIRED AR Reading:
Students in 7th grade are required to read TWO AR books and take the test for each book every trimester. This is in addition to the required reading listed above, for a total of THREE AR books this trimester. This is a homework requirement for Language Arts. This requirement encourages all students to keep reading. There are 3500 tests and 3300 AR books available in our Horizon library. Students mostly take tests before or after school. It only takes about six minutes to take a test. The good news is that each student chooses their own book and can stay within their own reading range.
Students are given a grade at midterm and report card time for successful AR reading! This is a great boost to their Language Arts grade! Keep Reading!
Writing Tips!
Remember, the color of each sentence will help remind you of the purpose of that sentence:
- Topic and Concluding Sentences are BLUE
- Concrete Details are RED
- Commentary is GREEN
- Introduction and Concluding Paragraphs are BLACK
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