Current Unit of Study
Below you can find information about what students are currently learning in Ms. Pauker's classroom. You will see four different categories: reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar. This is because English is a complex subject matter, where students study these four different categories of the English language at the same time.
Reading
The 7 Active Reading Strategies:
Predicting
Asking Questions
Making Connections
Determining Important Ideas
Visualizing
Monitoring and Clarifying
Summarizing
Nonfiction (not fake) Literature
Text Features:
Text Structures:
Predicting
Asking Questions
Making Connections
Determining Important Ideas
Visualizing
Monitoring and Clarifying
Summarizing
Nonfiction (not fake) Literature
Text Features:
- Table of Contents
- Headings and Subheadings
- Bold Print
- Glossary
- Photographs
- Captions
- Fast Facts
- Diagrams
Text Structures:
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Sequential
- Process
- Chronological - Problem & Solution
- Cause & Effect
Writing
Expository Writing: informs, describes, or explains the reader of something.
Students will be creating a nonfiction text about themselves.
Vocabulary
REV It Up - Lesson 2
Condescending: (adjective) someone who talks down to others in order to make them feel stupid or
unimportant
Contrite: (adjective) someone who feels deeply sorry and ashamed
Infuriate: (verb) to cause someone to feel extreme anger
Lilting: (adjective) a sound that is pleasantly light and musical
Maniacal: (adjective) someone who is wild and crazy, a maniac
Painstakingly: (adverb) to do something slowly and carefully
Pedestrian: (adjective) something that is common and ordinary, thus no longer interesting
Refinement: (noun) the quality of being polite and showing good taste
Repress: (verb) to hold back feelings or thoughts
Stoic: (adjective) someone who shows no emotion or something that shows no change
Grammar
Parts of Speech:
- Noun: a person, place, thing, or idea
- Pronoun: a word that replaces a noun.
- Adjective: a word that describes a noun or pronoun.
- Verb: the action of the sentence.
- Adverb: a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
- Conjunction: a word that joins words, phrases, or clauses.
- Prepositions: a word that connects a noun or pronoun, that is not act as the subject, predicate nominative, direct object, or indirect object in a sentence, to the rest of the sentence.
- Interjections: a word that serves no other purpose than to add emotion.
Subjects & Predicates: