WR07 Curriculum Map
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August/September
Content and Essential Skills
- Welcome back to school! What do you remember?
- Classroom procedures and expectations
- How do you show a teacher you want to pass? What does it mean to have a good attitude?
- What is the difference between being an active learner and a passive learner?
- Students should embrace the idea of shared accountability and meeting the teacher half way.
- As a class we will learn the importance of a safe, friendly classroom environment.
- Students will learn what their learning style is: auditory, visual, tactile, or a mixture of those three
- Students will learn what type of multiple intelligence(s) they have based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.
- We will review how to take notes, how to study, how to read a textbook, and how to organize.
- Goal Setting- why is it important to set goals?
- What makes a good student? What makes a good teacher?
- Students will understand the recent cognitive and developmental research about brain schemata
Assessment
- Survival Kit Portfolio- 100pts
Create a portfolio of things we have covered in class as well as some written reflections about classroom activities.
- Participation- 100pts
October/November
Content and Essential Skills
- How do I make my writing longer?
- What does it mean to be considerate? What does it mean to have good manners?
- Students must recall the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing)
- If we are stuck, what are some ways to pre-write?
- Students will review what an introduction is, what body paragraphs are, and how to conclude a paper. More specifically, how do we start an introduction?
- How do we write an organized essay using the BMS approved Step Up To Writing program? More information about this specific program can be found online or by emailing Ms. Credle.
- Who decides what they learn? The U.S. government, state, district, school, and teachers. What is the purpose for our essential skills and state standards?
- What are Bloom's level of thinking? Why do teachers plan the way they plan assignments? Students will learn what it means to have basic knowledge of a concept, comprehend knowledge, apply knowledge, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate because that is what is expected of them as they go through school.
- What are the six traits of writing? voice, word choice, organization, sentence fluency, ideas, and conventions
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate voice in writing?
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate sentence fluency in writing?
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate organization in writing?
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate word choice/vocabulary/spelling in writing?
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate ideas in writing?
- What are three differents ways to demonstrate organization in writing?
- How do we apply knowledge of the six traits of writing all at once? One at a time? Why do we use these?
- What do we do when we peer edit?
Assessment
- We must be motivated to make our writing longer! NWEA paragraphs: Write 5 paragraphs about why we should or should not have NWEA paragraphs. 100pts
- Cut out essay- 100pts
- Final unit test- 100pts
- Participation #2- 100pts
- Six Traits ID- can you identify them as a group?
- Individual six traits practice- can you identify them and apply them one by one?
- Final Unit 2 test estimated date 11/19
November/December
Content and Essential Skills
- identify all the parts of speech
- Focus on the noun (types of nouns) and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the verb (auxiliary verbs)and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the adjective and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the pronoun and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the article and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the adverb and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the conjunction and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the preposition and interject and usage of this part of speech
- Focus on the subject and predicate of a sentence
- Focus on the types of sentences (complex, compound, compound-complex)
- be able to pick the pieces of a sentence apart by diagramming a sentence
- Focus on punctuation marks and how to look for common errors
Assessment
January
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
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Optional
February
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March
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April
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May
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