Textbook
Language Arts: McGraw-Hill
Overview
Students will have daily grammar lessons that focus on grammar, usage, and mechanics. These lessons will include: The Sentence and Its Parts, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections, Subject-Verb Agreement, Capitalization, and Punctuation.
We will also be using MAISA Units to cover the following concepts:
1. Launching with personal narrative stories
2. Persuasive Essays
3. Literary Non- Fiction: Extending Informational Writing
4. Informational Research Writing
Students will gain experience using the writing process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Proofreading, and Publishing and Reflecting.
Assessment
Assessment will be based on daily book work, quizzes, tests, and papers.