Download the syllabus .doc. Get an idea of what I expect from you by carefully reading the syllabus, first.
Follow these steps for assignments of each chapter. First, take the chapter test for reading skills to see how much you need to study. If you get 100%, you do not need to do the assignments for the chapter. In regard to the vocabulary, you must achieve 85% or better.
Before leaving the chapter on reading skills, write a summary reflecting upon the important points of the chapter. What did you already know as you scanned through the chapter? What was new? You should include both opinion and facts. When referring to facts, it is important to give credit where credit is due. An in-text reference should include author + page #.
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Unit 1Take Unit 1 Test to see which words you need to study.
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Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Figure out the meanings of new words through context.
2. Understand there are, basically, four context clues about what words might mean.
3. Understand that good textbook authors give clues to guide the reader in understanding unique words which are used by the writer.
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1. Create your schedule: The best way to keep a record of your classroom assignments is by using assignment sheets.
1. Figure out the meanings of new words through context.
2. Understand there are, basically, four context clues about what words might mean.
3. Understand that good textbook authors give clues to guide the reader in understanding unique words which are used by the writer.
Click on the links below to see if you are ready to be a lifelong learner:
1. Create your schedule: The best way to keep a record of your classroom assignments is by using assignment sheets.
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Recognize that the main idea is the most important key to good comprehension.
2. Identify the three main strategies to find the main idea.
3. Understand that the main idea is not always at the beginning of a paragraph.
1. Recognize that the main idea is the most important key to good comprehension.
2. Identify the three main strategies to find the main idea.
3. Understand that the main idea is not always at the beginning of a paragraph.
Week 2: July 11-14
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Understand that major and minor ideas provide the added information to understand the main idea.
2. Identify list words and addition words which help to find major and minor supporting details.
3. Demonstrate the ability to use outlining, mapping, and summarizing strategies to successfully take notes.
4. Understand the relationship in an outline between the main, major details, and minor details of a passage.
1. Understand that major and minor ideas provide the added information to understand the main idea.
2. Identify list words and addition words which help to find major and minor supporting details.
3. Demonstrate the ability to use outlining, mapping, and summarizing strategies to successfully take notes.
4. Understand the relationship in an outline between the main, major details, and minor details of a passage.
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Recognize the importance of details in order to find the main idea.
1. Recognize the importance of details in order to find the main idea.
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate the use of transitions to organize patterns between supporting details in paragraphs and longer pieces of writing.
2. Identify transition words that signal addition relationships.
3. Identify transition words that signal a series of events or steps in an order or time event.
1. Demonstrate the use of transitions to organize patterns between supporting details in paragraphs and longer pieces of writing.
2. Identify transition words that signal addition relationships.
3. Identify transition words that signal a series of events or steps in an order or time event.
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Apply the strategy of using definitions and examples writers give to understand new words in a passage.
2. Apply the strategy of using transition words to understand comparison and/or contrast in a passage.
3. Apply the strategy of using transition words to understand cause and effect in a passage.
1. Apply the strategy of using definitions and examples writers give to understand new words in a passage.
2. Apply the strategy of using transition words to understand comparison and/or contrast in a passage.
3. Apply the strategy of using transition words to understand cause and effect in a passage.
Unit 1 Test
Take the test again and see how well you did. Again, sort out those index cards of vocabulary words you still need to review and remember.
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Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Apply information provided by the author to understand implied ideas.
2. Apply strategies used to find inferences to understand cartoons, tables, and graphs..
1. Apply information provided by the author to understand implied ideas.
2. Apply strategies used to find inferences to understand cartoons, tables, and graphs..
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Understand the author's purpose to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
2. Identify the author's attitude and feeling by identifying the tone of the passage read.
3. Identify irony in a written passage.
1. Understand the author's purpose to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
2. Identify the author's attitude and feeling by identifying the tone of the passage read.
3. Identify irony in a written passage.
Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Explain the elements of a good argument which are to make a point or conclusion as well as logical evidence to back up a good argument.
2. Identify relevance of each piece of evidence in a good argument.
3. Identify whether an argument has adequate components or is missing something to make it a good argument.
1. Explain the elements of a good argument which are to make a point or conclusion as well as logical evidence to back up a good argument.
2. Identify relevance of each piece of evidence in a good argument.
3. Identify whether an argument has adequate components or is missing something to make it a good argument.
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Ch. 10 - A Debate on School UniformsDownload PowerPoint Presentation for Ch. 10.
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Objectives: By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Differentiate between fact and opinion.
2. Differentiate propaganda techniques which appeal to emotion than reason.
3. Recognize errors, such as fallacies, in reasoning.
1. Differentiate between fact and opinion.
2. Differentiate propaganda techniques which appeal to emotion than reason.
3. Recognize errors, such as fallacies, in reasoning.
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Ch. 12 - Alex's Search |
Unit 3
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Ch. 13 - Ann's Love of Animals
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Ch. 14 - A Costume Party
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Ch. 15 - The Missing Painting
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Ch. 16 - An Ohio Girl in New York
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Ch. 17 - How Neat Is Neat Enough?
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Ch. 18 - A Cult Community (word parts)
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Ch. 21- Twelve Grown Men in a Bug
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Ch. 22 - Adjusting to a Group Home
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Ch. 23 - A Different Kind of Doctor
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Ch. 24 - Grandpa and Music (word parts)
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Unit 4
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Ch. 25 - My Devilish Older Sister
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Ch. 26 - Harriet Tubman
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Ch. 27 - Tony's Rehabilitation
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Ch. 28 - Rumors
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Ch. 30 - Firing Our BossDownload the PowerPoint Presentation for Ch. 30.
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Unit 5Take the test again and see how well you did. Again, sort out those index cards of vocabulary words you still need to review and remember.
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