Social Studies
02/11/2009 15:14
- Students will write functional writing pieces that provides specific directions or information related to real-world tasks. This includes letters, memos, schedules, directories, signs, manuals, forms, reciepes, and technical pieces for specific content areas.
- Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purpose, structures, clarity, and relevancy of functional text.
- Students will be expected to acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.
- Students will read from a variety of genres with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
- Students will implement all stages of the effective writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing).
- Students will write with the six traits of good writing (ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions).
- Employ strategies to comprehend texts.
- Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structures and elements of literature.
- Recognize and apply knowledge of historical and cultural aspects of American, British, and world literature.