Middle M/J Language Arts 3
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
Recommended for 8th grade
Description
Through reading, writing, and rhetoric, students in the MJ Language Arts 3 course examine how authors fine-tune and utilize their craft to create texts with purpose. Students continue to develop the reading, writing, language, and speaking/listening skills necessary for success in high school, college, career, and beyond. Students evaluate and analyze voice, purpose, diction, syntax, and rhetoric in historical speeches, informational texts, and classic and contemporary literature through guided readings, interactive practice, and formal assessments. They also refine their narrative, informational, and argumentative writing skills through the repeated practice of planning, drafting, revising, and editing their written work.
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Segment 1
- Evaluating key elements in a literary text
- Evaluate authors’ styles
- Integrate academic vocabulary into speaking and writing
- Analyzing figurative language
- Analyzing how juxtaposition defines characters’ perspectives
- Identifying figurative language devices
- Planning and outlining a literary analysis essay
- Developing strong thesis statements
- Write a literary analysis essay
- Identifying and correcting informal language in an academic essay
- Utilizing the appropriate tone and voice for an intended audience
- Incorporating appropriate transitions in writing
- Incorporating MLA formatting
- Elaborating on evidence in an essay
- Revising and editing an essay
- Publishing and sharing a completed essay
- Determining a word or phrase’s meaning using context clues
- Identifying the elements of a Shakespearean tragedy
- Paraphrasing content
- Comparing the development of two speeches on the same topic
- Evaluating the effectiveness of claims in a speech
- Tracking and analyzing how universal themes are developed in a literary text
- Identifying and explaining the use of allegories
- Developing a claim
- Identifying and incorporating evidence to support a claim
- Writing an argumentative literary analysis
- Using knowledge of usage skills to create flow in writing
- Creating a Works Cited Page
Segment 1 Honors
- Analyzing, evaluating, and explaining what makes an author’s style unique
- Varying writing style for syntax and effect
- Analyzing how a universal theme is developed
- Writing an allegorical tale that conveys a universal theme
- Evaluating how an author establishes and builds characterization
- Creating a digital presentation
Segment 2
- Determining the central idea of texts
- Paraphrasing texts
- Analyzing authors’ purposes
- Comparing the development of multiple arguments on the same topic by multiple authors
- Evaluating text structures and features
- Determining the connotative and denotative meanings of words
- Applying knowledge of etymology to obtain a word or phrase’s meaning
- Evaluating an author’s use of rhetoric
- Identifying authors’ claims
- Writing an analysis of complex texts
- Comparing authors’ use of reasoning
- Compare and contrast how contemporaneous authors address related topics
- Writing an argument to support claims, using substantial evidence and reasoning
- Creating and exporting quality writing tailored to a specific audience
- Creating a digital presentation that contains multimedia elements
- Presenting information in the format of a speech
- Employing rhetorical devices in a speech
- Reading and comprehending poetry
- Analyzing figurative language
- Tracking and analyzing themes in poetry
- Analyzing ways in which poetry reflects themes and issues of its time
- Conducting literary research to answer a question
- Synthesizing information from primary and secondary sources
- Evaluating how tone adds to meaning or style
- Researching responsibly
- Selecting research sources with discernment
- Identifying and correcting dangling and misplaced modifier
- Identifying the correct use of homophones
- Identifying and correcting sentences with faulty parallel structure
- Identifying and correcting sentence fragments and run-on sentences
- Identifying and correcting subject-verb agreement issues
- Evaluating elements of a narrative
- Analyzing how an author establishes multiple perspectives in a narrative
- Planning and writing a narrative that contains multiple character perspectives
- Incorporating narrative techniques in a narrative
- Analyzing how authors develop and reveal themes in literary texts
- Revising and editing an original narrative
- Integrating a universal theme in a narrative text
- Reflecting on writing strengths and weaknesses
Segment 2 Honors
- Evaluating how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning to a literary text
- Identifying and analyzing the use of satire
- Writing a narrative that uses satirical techniques
- Integrating academic vocabulary into writing
- Identifying the central idea of speeches and essays
- Paraphrasing complex texts
- Producing writing that is appropriate to the task, audience, and purpose
- Creating and exporting writing
- Writing a narrative text that provides insight into a specific time period
- Employing narrative techniques in a narrative
Students are responsible for obtaining independent reading material.
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Courses subject to availability.
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