[ELA] English/Language Arts 6 Semester A (1 of 2): Extended Campus (SM)

Please review the Course Syllabus

In this course, you will read and analyze informational texts. These texts take many different forms, including biographies, personal accounts of events, instructional documents, film reviews, and persuasive letters. The course's reading selections demonstrate ways to understand central ideas and key details, explicit and implicit information, and arguments and claims, among other ideas and concepts. Over the course of ENG6 (1 of 2), you will read The Road by Jack London. You will also examine informational texts to better your understanding of the science behind sunsets, the lives of several important historical figures, the history of the Olympics, and the process of flotation used by archaeologists, among other topics.

As you read the informational texts in this course, you will practice ways to identify central ideas, use supporting evidence, make inferences, analyze word choice, and identify figurative and connotative language. In addition, you will learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, including correct spelling, prepositions, and prepositional phrases, subordinating and correlative conjunctions, varied sentence patterns, and analogies and word relationships. You will also learn various vocabulary words, review context clues to determine word meaning, and learn about Greek and Latin roots and affixes.

In addition, you will learn the elements of informational and argument writing so that you can plan, write, revise, and edit your own informational and argument essays.

Through the lessons provided in this course, you will master techniques that help you more deeply appreciate informational texts.