The objectives below are pulled directly from the state standards. Not every standard is listed, but we will interweave the remaining objectives or goals into these essential outcomes. It is important to know that these are the skills that will be tested in class with common assessments. The common assessments will occur every four weeks and students will have an opportunity to re-learn concepts that they did poorly on and even re-take with limits the tests.

Semester 1 is the first row and semester 2 is the second row in the chart below. The underlined portion refers to the State Standard and is not important to students.

R1E: Context Clues R1E: Roots and R1E: Context Clues R1E: Roots and Affixes Affixes R3D: Read and apply R2C: Use details from multi-step directions to R1F: (Pre-Reading) the text(s) to R1G: (During perform complex Predict with text - Evaluate the Reading) procedures and\or tasks support or rationale effect of author’s Paraphrase and style Summarize R2C: Use details from R1G: (During - Mood text(s) to analyze: Reading) Infer - Tone R1H: (Post- - Plot Reading) Identify - Character R1H: (Post- R2B, R3B: Identify and and explain the - Flashback Reading) Reflect explain Irony relationship - Setting and draw between the main - Point of View conclusions idea and supporting details R2C: Analyze types of conflict

R1E: Context Clues R1E: Roots and R1E: Context Clues R1E: Roots and Affixes Affixes R2C: Use details from R2B, R3B: Explain various the text(s) to R3C: Use literary techniques: - Analyze the informational text to: Review: OPEN FOR development - Analyze and - Figurative MISSED of theme evaluate the language NOVELS OR across genres accuracy of - Imagery TEACHER’S evidence - Sound Devices CHOICE OF R1I: compare and - Analyze and New: MATERIAL contrast, analyze and evaluate the - Understatement evaluate connections: point of view - Parallelism - Text to text - Evaluate - Allusion - Text to self proposed - Analogy - Text to world solutions - Faulty reasoning and unfounded inferences

R2A, R3A: Analyze and evaluate text features in grade-level text; explain, analyze, and evaluate the author’s use of text features to clarify meaning