WR08 Curriculum Map
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August
Content and Essential Skills
Skills
Assessment
Resources
Optional
September
Content and Essential Skills
- What is a short story?
- Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
- Publishing process
- What does it mean to persuade?
- What are some persuasive techniques?
Skills
common, proper nouns, possessive nouns
title page, cover page
persuasive techniques
1. a,c
2. a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3. a,b,c,d,e,f
Assessment
Grammar test
book
group work
persuasive essay
rough drafts
preposition test
DOL
Resources
GUM
published books
textbook
Writer's Choice
DOL
Step-up to writing
Optional
October
Content and Essential Skills
- What does it mean to persuade?
- What are compound-complex sentences?
- What is a narrative story?
Skills
onamatopies, simple sentence, compound, compound-complex, complex, dependent clause, independent clause, subordinating conjunctions, coordination conjunctions, use of comma and semicolon
2.a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3.a,b,c,d,e,f,
Assessment
DOL, persuasive speech, rough drafts, editing, daily assignments, pop quiz
Resources
DOL, Sentence fluency poster, 108 persuasive words, Fear story examples, speech presentation video
Optional
November
Content and Essential Skills
- What is a personal narrative?
- What are the steps in the writing process?
- What is included in a research report?
- Standards: 2,3,6
Skills
2. a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3. b,c,d,e,f,g
6. a,b,c,d
Assessment
Rough drafts
self/peer edit
daily assignments
Resources
Examples
charts
Bib notes
notecards
text book
Optional
December
Content and Essential Skills
- Functions of punctuation
- Steps in the research process
- Standards 2,3,5
Skills
2.a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3.c,d,e,f
5.b,c,d,e,f
Assessment
Rough and final drafts
class observations
daily assignments
Resources
Sentence strips
grammar book
workbooks
write source 2000
Optional
January
Content and Essential Skills
- Purposes for writing letters
- Punctuation use
- Standards: 1,2
Skills
2.a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3. b,c,d,e,f
Assessment
letter quiz, punctuation quiz
daily assignments
tests-punctuation, letters
request letter, cover letter,
letter to inform, complaint letter,
typed letter
Resources
English punctuation video
workbook
grammar book
DOL
examples of letters
Optional
February
Content and Essential Skills
- Subject/verb agreement
- verbals
- standards: 2,3
Skills
2.a,c
3.a,b,c,d,e
subject/verb agreement
indefinite pronouns
problem subjects
gerunds, participles, infinitives
helping verbs
Assessment
DOL
workbook practice pages
tests- subject/verb agreement, verbals
pretests
Resources
DOL
grammar book
grammar workbook
Optional
March
Content and Essential Skills
- Writing an essay
- What is an autobiography?
- Standards: 2,3
Skills
2.a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3.a,b,c,d,e,f
Assessment
rough draft
rainbow revisions
autobiographies
Resources
examples of Anne's "Triumphant Spirit"
examples of autobiographies
Optional
April
Content and Essential Skills
- What is an autobiography?
- 2,3,5
Skills
2.a,b,c,d,e,f,g
3.b,c,d,e,f
5.a,c
Assessment
rough drafts/final draft
Resources
past examples
lab tops
library books
Almanacs
infoplease.com
famousbirthdays.com
Optional
May
Content and Essential Skills
What are the themes in To Kill a Mockingbird?
2,3
Skills
2. a ,e, g
3. c, d, e
Assessment
Final test
short answer questions
Resources
TKAM test
LIT TKAM guide
Optional
