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Reading
Students will:
- read from a variety of genres
- identify and analyze the different elements of a story (setting, point of view, character development, conflict, climax, resolution, theme)
- organize information with note-taking and outlining strategies
- summarize the main idea
- recognize figurative language in poetry and prose
- develop vocabulary
Writing Strategies
Stages of the writing process will be used to produce clear essays with a central idea, introduction, supporting evidence, and conclusion. Emphasis will be placed on the following domains:
- personal narrative
- literature based analytical essay
- problem-solution / letter of advice
- report of information
Writing Conventions
Students will be introduced to:
- correct sentence structure (complete sentences, sentence fragments, compound sentences, subject-verb agreement)
- parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...)
- punctuation (periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks, apostrophes, semi-colons, colons)
- capitalization (beginning of sentence, proper nouns, direct quotes, titles)
- friendly letter form
- standard outline form
- bibliographic form
- spelling - frequently misspelled words (i.e. there, their, they're)
Social Studies
The five themes of geography (place, movement, location, region, human-environment interaction) will be examined through units of study selected from the following:
- early humankind
- Mesopotamia/ Sumeria
- Egypt
- Greece
- Rome
Social Studies skills integrated with those of language arts include:
- maps and graphing
- geographic terms
- note taking
- question & answer
- cause & effect
- research and technology
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