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

 

Please review the Course Syllabus

In this course, you will focus on learning reading skills based on literary texts. The texts come from a number of genres and include a novel, excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and plays. The course’s reading selections demonstrate ways to understand explicit and implicit information, theme, characters, plot, poetic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts. You will read the entire novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in almost every lesson throughout the course. You will read excerpts from the novels Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and stories and plays about challenging situations, getting caught doing something wrong, finding something unexpected, and why the crocodile has a wide mouth. Additionally, you will read poems from famous poets, such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, and Carl Sandburg, to name a few. You will also watch several videos of famous poems being read aloud.

As you read the novels, short stories, poems, and plays in this course, you will practice ways to identify central ideas and themes; make inferences; analyze word choice; identify figurative and connotative language; and compare and contrast poems, poems to stories, poems to video versions. In addition, you will learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, including conjunctive adverbs, predicate adjectives, various types of pronouns, active and passive voice, and semicolons and colons. You will also learn 20 new vocabulary words in each of the first five units of the course.

In addition, you will learn the elements of narrative writing so that you can plan, create, write, revise, and edit your own personal narrative. You will also learn about different forms of poetry and their characteristics, and different poetic techniques in order to write several types of poems. Through the lessons provided in this course, you will master techniques that help you achieve a deeper appreciation of literary texts and narrative and poetry writing.

 


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