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1. Start and complete a process beginning with an idea or a concept and ending with the construction of a 400-500 words of edited and marked-up academic writing; written for a specific audience and a specific purpose.

2. Construct lengthy paragraphs of error free reflective writing that explains your thinking and how you make your thoughts meaningful.

3. Practice with and explain the basic rules of standard American academic written English and the work we expect words to do for us. We want words to do many things and when we get better at making words do the work we want them to do, we improve our chances at success.

4. Construct, craft, create and explain many responses to the ideas of others in a variety of ways that show how your brain works with ideas and how you are "aware" of connections with the other ideas, other people, and/or themselves.

5. Know and practice the basic principles of Media Literacy.

6. Organize and maintain a response journal for an academic term.

7. Practice and perform in groups and in class.

=General Syllabus=

1st Quarter

 * 1) Formal Writing will be Personal Narrative and Crucible Character Analysis (8 blocks)
 * 2) Quarterly Exam will be vocabulary, Crucible, literary terms & plot, test taking tips and journals and personal narrative online essay.
 * 3) Assign Diagnostic as Seminar, you have two weeks to get it done, or grounded.
 * 4) Assign Crucible (Not textbook, small book)
 * 5) Get everyone's Email Address and everyone has a gmail address and address must include part of your real name.
 * 6) Show this wiki, everyone subscribe to wiki in one week. Use your gmail account name.
 * 7) Literary terms to Know
 * 8) Transaction Journal How To
 * 9) The Crucible (4 blocks)
 * 10) Study questions
 * 11) vocabulary
 * 12) Character outline
 * 13) Test Smarts from textbook (not sure how to do this....)
 * 14) Me being smart visual synectic display (1 block)
 * 15) formative assessment practice (1 block)
 * 16) Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #1 ‘What do I want?”


 * 1) Quarter Exam will be over literary period focus questions, reading strategies (KWL, QtA, SQ4R, Notice and Focus, Close Reading and all vocabulary plus grammar
 * 2) Reading Strategies & Reading Matters (test!) (2 blocks)
 * 3) Am. Lit. Survey (Introductions and Reflections on Literary Periods 1, 2, 4, 5, & 6)
 * 4) Readings as homework and response journal (structure and inference)
 * 5) lots of reading of informative texts, test practice with them....
 * 6) Poster Assignment (see online wiki guy) (3 blocks)
 * 7) Compare-Contrast Essay (4 Blocks)
 * 8) Practice for State Reading Test (3 block)
 * 9) CQ Researcher structured research paper (fill-in-the-blank!) (5 blocks)
 * 10) Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #1 ‘What do I want?” (2 blocks)


 * 1) Quarterly Exam will be Vocabulary (all!) Bean Trees, Close Reading, Annotated Biblio,
 * 2) Analogies and Raisin in the Sun questions, parts of speech, syntax
 * 3) Assigned Topic (Aesthetics) Research paper with annotated bibliography (5 blocks)
 * 4) Close Reading of Poem (3 blocks)
 * 5) Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #2 (What is Beauty?)


 * 1) Quarterly Exam will be all vocabulary, all reading strategies, novel, persuasive techniques, proofreading, I-search paper and literary terms
 * 2) On-your-Own I-Search research paper (8 blocks)
 * 3) Persuasive Essays Holt Online (2 blocks)
 * 4) Read for Argument: Read all Comparing Points of View, then formal presentation (Capstone A)
 * 5) Movie Analysis (Capstone B)