1- 1 1/2 inch to 2 inch 3-ring binder
5- dividers 1- large package of loose leaf paper
1- pen (blue or black ink)
1- pen (red)
1- pencil
1- zipper pouch
3- packages of small sticky notes
2- packages of 3 x 5 notecards

ORGANIZE YOUR NOTEBOOK THIS WAY:

Handouts/Notes
Reader's Notebook
STAAR Review
Vocabulary Notebook
Writer's Notebook

LATE WORK GUIDELINES

10 points OFF for every day late

You have 1 day for every day absent to make up work.

ACCELERATED READING/AR PROGRAM

*Students must complete a minimum of 1 AR test per 6 weeks.
*Students may take several AR tests each 6 weeks.
*One AR grade will be given each 6 weeks based on the percentage of questions right on AR tests taken.
*Students will amass points each 6 weeks for AR store after the 3rd & 6th weeks of each 6 weeks & the end-of-year field trip.

FIRST SIX WEEKS--CSCOPE CURRICULUM

ANALYZING FICTION AND DRAMA

--Exploring Short Fiction

--Exploring Drama

--Exploring the Novel

The ELA class period will be divided into several things throughout the six weeks:

SSR--Silent Sustained Reading

GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE--Grammar review & study

WORD STUDY--Vocabulary study - Vocabulary Notebook; origins of words; Latin & Greek roots and affixes; analogies; using context clues

WRITING--Writer's Notebook

LITERATURE--Reader's Notebook

LITERARY CONCEPTS COVERED THE FIRST SIX WEEKS:

--Plot = what the story is about, from beginning to end
--Setting = when & where the story takes place
--Characters = who is the story about; major & minor characters
--Theme = what lesson about life is learned
--Conflict = problems
--Rising Action = what happens leading up to the most exciting part of the story
--Climax = the high point of the story
--Falling action = what happens leading from the climax to the conclusion
--Resolution = conclusion; denouement
--Dialogue = what the characters say
--Point of View = perspective = from whose point of view is the story told
--First Person Point of View = the narrator is in the story & is telling the story; advantages of
--Third Person Point of View = the narrator is telling the story but he/she is not in the story; advantages of
--Omnisicent Point of View - the narrator knows all & sees into the minds & lives of all characters; advantages of
--Limited Point of View -- the narrator restricts his knowledge to one character's view or behavior; advantages of
--Tone = the writer's or narrator's attitude
--Protagonist = the story's main character
--Antagonist = opposition to the main character
--Subjective writing = the writer gives his/her opinions on a subject
--Objective writing = action and words are revealed but not the writer's opinions about them
--Literal, Interpretive, evaluative & universal questions of text
--Summarizing & synthesizing; making textual, personal & world connections: creating sensory images
--Making complex inferences about text & using textual evidence to support understanding
--Staging
--Types of Conflict -- Man vs. self, Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. machine, man vs society
--Similes & extended metaphors & their effects in literary text
--Writing

--planning a first draft, choosing an appropriate organizational strategy (the pattern an author constructs as he organizes his or her ideas & provides supporting details)
--using appropriate voice (articulation or expression in coherent form)
--revising drafts to clarify meaning, enhance style, use effective transitions, use variety in sentence structures & diction, to form consistent points of view, & to ensure vivid images
--editing drafts for grammar, mechanics & spelling
--reviewing & using a range of literary strategies--hyperbole (exaggeration), irony (things turning out differently than what is expected), oxymoron (opposites placed next to each other (jumbo shrimp)
--Style -- the way something is written, in contrast to its content; the manner of expression of the writer produced by choice of words, grammatical structures, use of literary devices & all of the possible parts of language use; style is more about how it is written than what is written.

GRAMMAR

--Phrase--a group of related words that does not include a subject or verb
--Clause--a group of related words that contains a subject and a verb
--Adjectival phrase--a prepositional or participial phrase that acts like an adjective & modifies a noun or a pronoun
--Adjectival clause--a group of words with a subject and a verb that acts as an adjective by describing a noun or pronoun
--Relative pronouns--who, whom, whose, which, that)--usually introduce the adjectival clause but they may also begin with relative adverbs (when, where, why)
--Adverbial phrase--a prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb
--Adverbial clause--a dependent clause beginning with a subordinate conjunction that acts as an adverb by modifying a verb, adjective or other adverb
--Subordinating conjunctions--conjunctions that introduce a depedent clause and connects it to an independent clause
--Complex sentences --sentences with one independent clause & at least one dependent clause
--Independent clause--a clause containing a subject and a verb that can stand alone as a complete sentence; also called a main clause
--Subordinate clause--a clause that has a subject and ver but cannot stand alone to make sense as a sentence; it needs to be attached to an independent clause to make sense; also called a dependent clause
--Pronoun antecedents--a noun that a pronoun refers to

NOTE: TEACHER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE ADDITIONS, DELETIONS OR CHANGES AT ANY TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK REGULARLY FOR UPDATES.