Curriculum Planning Manual Language Arts 3LIT5000 205 N.W. 63rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73116 800.222.2811 www.amered.com Table of Contents Language Arts Curriculum Planning Manual Teachers’ Guides and Scope & Sequences Please note: Courses are listed in grade level sequence. Technical Requirements Language Arts Overview .......................................... 1 For detailed workstation specifications, please visit the Building Vocabulary I–VIII ........................................ 7 American Education Corporation’s web site: Building Vocabulary I .......................................... 11 Building Vocabulary II ........................................ 16 www.amered.com/awl_requirements_wba.php Building Vocabulary III ....................................... 21 Additionally, some courses require Adobe® Acrobat Building Vocabulary IV ........................................ 26 Reader®, Adobe Flash®, and/or Adobe Shockwave® Building Vocabulary V ......................................... 30 plug-ins for your browsers. These are available for free Building Vocabulary VI ........................................ 34 from http://www.adobe.com. The required software Building Vocabulary VII ....................................... 38 version numbers are listed on our website (see above). Building Vocabulary VIII ..................................... 42 For those using our Web-based A+LS (WBA+) product, the Language Usage I–VIII .......................................... 46 initial WBA+ screen offers links to download the necessary Language Usage I .............................................. 50 Adobe Acrobat and Flash files. Language Usage II ............................................. 54 Language Usage III ............................................ 58 For detailed instructions for configuring your browsers to Language Usage IV ............................................ 61 work with A+LS (such as Active X), please see Language Usage V ............................................. 65 Troubleshooting in the following document on our website: Language Usage VI ............................................ 69 A Teachers Guide to Web-based A+LS Language Usage VII ........................................... 73 ® Language Usage VIII .......................................... 77 To access Encyclopædia Britannica and other Internet based resources found in some courses, a connection to Reading I–VIII ...................................................... 81 the Internet is required. To view multimedia from these Reading I .......................................................... 87 sites a fast connection is recommended. Reading II ......................................................... 91 Reading III ....................................................... 96 Reading IV ....................................................... 101 Reading V ........................................................ 106 i Table of Contents Reading VI ....................................................... 111 Reading VII ...................................................... 116 Reading VIII ..................................................... 121 English Foundations IA ......................................... 126 English Foundations IA ...................................... 126 English Foundations IB ...................................... 136 English Foundations IIA ..................................... 146 English Foundations IIB ..................................... 157 English Literature IX–XII ....................................... 168 English Literature IX .......................................... 174 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ...... 174 The Odyssey ................................................. 175 Romeo and Juliet ........................................... 177 A Tale of Two Cities ........................................ 178 Short Stories ................................................. 182 English Literature X ........................................... 183 The Jungle .................................................... 183 Julius Caesar ................................................. 185 Great Expectations ......................................... 186 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ................. 191 English Literature XI .......................................... 195 Moby Dick ..................................................... 195 The Last of the Mohicans ................................ 204 The Red Badge of Courage .............................. 206 The House of the Seven Gables ........................ 208 English Literature XII ......................................... 211 Jane Eyre ..................................................... 211 Macbeth ....................................................... 215 Wuthering Heights ......................................... 216 Pride and Prejudice ........................................ 219 Short Stories ................................................. 225 English Skills IX–XII ............................................. 227 English Skills IX ................................................ 228 English Skills X ................................................. 234 ii Table of Contents English Skills XI ................................................ 239 English Skills XII ............................................... 244 Writing I–XII ....................................................... 248 Writing I .......................................................... 252 Writing II ......................................................... 255 Writing III ........................................................ 258 Writing IV ........................................................ 261 Writing V ......................................................... 264 Writing VI ........................................................ 268 Writing VII ....................................................... 272 Writing VIII ...................................................... 276 Writing IX ........................................................ 280 Writing X ......................................................... 284 Writing XI ........................................................ 288 Language Arts Keyboard Companion I–VI ................ 296 Language Arts Keyboard Companion I .................. 297 Language Arts Keyboard Companion II ................ 304 Language Arts Keyboard Companion III ............... 310 Language Arts Keyboard Companion IV ................ 312 Language Arts Keyboard Companion V ................. 316 Language Arts Keyboard Companion VI ................ 319 iii Copyright © 2013 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. K12 is a registered trademark of K12 Inc. The K12 logo and other marks referenced herein are trademarks of K12 Inc. and its subsidiaries, and other marks are owned by third parties. Adobe, Acrobat Reader, and Flash are registered trademarks of the Adobe Systems Incorporated. Encyclopædia Britannica is a registered trademark of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. MetaMetrics, Lexile, and Quantile are registered trademarks of MetaMetrics, Inc. iv A+nyWhere Learning System Teachers’ Guide Language Arts Overview Grade Levels 1-12 The A+LS Language Arts courses include comprehensive, completely integrated courses for grades 1-12. The Language Arts titles are designed to reinforce skills in vocabulary, grammar, language, writing, literature, and reading comprehension in many forms and levels of learning. The Language Arts courses provide an extensive e-learning solution ideal for schools that want to use technology to improve their instructional process. • Language Arts is presented as a collection of year-long courses. • All lessons contain an integrated study guide and essay or other constructed response. • Lessons include a variety of essay types such as descriptive, persuasive, expository, and letter writing. • Most Language Arts lessons are certified by MetaMetrics® with Lexile® scores. • Some courses are enriched by Encyclopædia Britannica® Online School Edition (EB) workspaces that contain learning materials. Learning materials may contain articles, games, images, maps, and/or videos. 1 A+nyWhere Learning System Language Arts Teachers’ Guide Grade Levels 1–12 • The content in these courses is designed to meet and exceed the requirements of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for the Standards of English Language Arts. • Students learn to identify and correctly use nouns, verbs, modifiers, and the other parts of speech. They also learn the importance of sentence construction and identifying sentence parts including simple and complex subjects and predicates, verbs, and phrases as well as capitalization and punctuation guidelines. • The Writing titles emphasize six aspects of writing including ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency, and conventions. Students will learn varieties of writing formats that include personal narratives, journals, newspaper writing, and descriptive writing. • The Literature lessons provide a broad exposure to literature, enabling the student to acquire the necessary skills to understand and appreciate literature by exploring universal themes through study guides and later in the questions on literary terms, devices, and forms. 2 A+nyWhere Learning System Language Arts Teachers’ Guide Grade Levels 1–12 Third-Party Content in A+LS Lessons The Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition has teacher resources and student learning materials. The materials include a wide range of interactive