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"Teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom." Psalms 90:12
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English and Literature Syllabi
Eighth Grade
Literature Goals for Students:
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Read, study, discuss, as well as write about literature
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Strengthen reading comprehension skills
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Broaden vocabulary
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Sharpen interpretive skills
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Deepen understanding of character and plot development
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Enrich moral beliefs
Writing Goals for Students:
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Write clear, effective, content rich structured paragraphs
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Use topic, concrete detail, commentary, and concluding sentences
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Demonstrate interpretive skills in literature and experiential assignments
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Comprehend function of Parts of Speech in sentences
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Employ simple, compound and complex sentences
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Vary sentence structure and word choice
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Use correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
Texts, Novels, Short Stories and Plays:
English Workshop Handbook
Exploring Literature Anthology
My Brother Sam Is Dead, James & Christoper Collier
Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote
Call of the Wild, Jack London
To Build a Fire, Jack London
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Seventh Grade
This course is designed to augment the gifted student's already confident use of oral and written language as well as improve her advanced reading and comprehension skills.
The study of sentence structures, parts of speech, mechanics, usage, and paragraph writing are included in the language curriculum. Students will write structured papagraphs which incorporate topic, concrete, commentary, and concluding sentences.
Literature incorporates the study of short stories, novels, poems, and plays while focusing on vocabulary, plot, characterization, setting, theme, and conflict. Authors' lives are discussed and analyzed and related to their literary works.
Texts, Novels, Short Stories and Plays:
English Workshop Handbook
Introduction to Literature Anthology
Tales from World Epics, John Marcatante
Nine Muses, Modern Plays from Classic Myths, Wim Colman
Great Books, Series 7
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
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