It was great seeing everyone today after our three day break! This week we are busy working within the context of our text in each class period. We are working on the following standards:
6th Grade
ELAGSE6W3
Write narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured events sequences.
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions of judgments.
ELAGSE6L5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
7th Grade
ELAGSE7RL2
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE7RL5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
ELAGSE7SL1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, text, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Write narratives to develop real or imaged experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
ELAGSE8RL2
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE8RL3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama push the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
ELAGSE8RL6
Analyze how differences in the points of view of characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
ELAGSE8W3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or event using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequence.
6th Grade
ELAGSE6W3
Write narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured events sequences.
- Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- Use a narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
- Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
- Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions of judgments.
ELAGSE6L5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
7th Grade
ELAGSE7RL2
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE7RL5
Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
ELAGSE7SL1
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, text, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- Come to discussion prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
- Follow rules for collegial discussion, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
- Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
- Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views and understanding.
Write narratives to develop real or imaged experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or character; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- Use a narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or character.
ELAGSE8RL2
Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE8RL3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama push the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
ELAGSE8RL6
Analyze how differences in the points of view of characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
ELAGSE8W3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or event using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequence.
- Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events.
- Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events
- Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences and events.