BWIHS Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Surveying students as to why they need to make up an English credit(s).
What prevented you from passing this class last year?
What skills do you need to improve upon to be be able to succeed in your English classes?
Individual conferencing with students to determine needs.
Skills
Communication
Being able to reflect and articulate reasons for failing class(es) last year and needing to make up credits.
Assessment
Question and answer session
Discussion
Survey
Resources
students
teacher
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
Grammar review
What are the parts of speech?
What are the parts of a sentence?
How do I identity the parts of speech?
How do I identify the parts of a sentence?
What are sentence fragments?
What are run-on sentences?
Skills
Being able to identify parts of speech.
Being able to identify parts of a sentence.
Being able to identify sentence fragments.
Being able to identify run-on sentences.
Assessment
pre tests
post tests
individual writing assignments
weekly spelling tests
Resources
McDougal- Littlel Language Network - orange level
text generated worksheets, tests, etc.
teacher generated worksheets, test, etc.
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
Usage review.
How do I differentiate commonly confused words?
How do I know which form of a verb to use?
How do I know when the subject agrees with the verb or the pronoun agrees with the antecedent.
Skills
Ability to differentiate commonly confused words (accept/except for example)
Ability to use proper verb forms and tenses in writing.
Ability to use correct subject-verb agreement
Ability to use proper pronoun-antecedent agreement
Assessment
Quizzes and tests over skills
Use of skills in writing
Spelling quizzes
Resources
McDougal Littell Language Network
Text generated assignments, tests
Teacher generated assignments, texts
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
Review of basic elements of fiction.
How do I apply the terms of plot, character, setting, point of view, irony, and theme to my reading.
Why do we read literature?
How is literature a record of the human experience.
Skills
Ability to define literary elements of fiction.
Ability to apply understanding of literary elements to an assigned novel.
Ability to understand how the novel reflects the human experience of a particular time period in history
Assessment
Discussion
Oral question and answer sessions
Quizzes
Tests
Projects
Resources
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
the video of the movie based on the novel
study guide assignments
teacher generated materials
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
Test taking strategies
How do I correctly decipher and answer multiple choice, true false, matching, and essay questions
Capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations
Why is it necessary to use correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations in my writing?
Skills
Ability to look at a test question and determine what the question is asking and what response is required.
Ability to correctly capitalize on worksheets and in individual writing
Ability to correctly punctuate on worksheets and in individual writing
Ability to correctly use abbreviations in formal and informal writing
Assessment
Responding to a variety of test questions as practice
Successfully completing semester exam
Using correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations in individual writing assignments
Resources
McDougal Littel Language Network
text generated assignments, etc.
teacher generated assignments, etc
semester exam
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
