WRITING

Ideas and Content

Voice

Word Choice

Sentence Fluency

Conventions

Organization

 

WRITING PROCESS:

Planning/Prewriting/Brainstorming

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Publishing

 

WRITING SKILLS:

Cutting out Unnecessary Words

Verb Tense

Transitions

Specifics and Descriptions

Imagery

Introductory Paragraphs (hooking the reader)

Concluding Paragraphs

Indenting

Editing Skills

Revising

 

NARRATIVE WRITING:

Personal Journaling

Creative

 

EXPOSITORY WRITING

 

PERSUASIVE WRITING:

Compare/Contrast

Analyze/Evaluate

Cause/Effect

 

NOVELS: (not all classes will read all books)

A Single Shard

The Alchemist

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

A Solitary Blue

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

Nothing but the Truth

Monster

The Pearl

 

DRAMA: (not all classes)

Diary of Anne Frank

A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

NONFICTION:

Selections from "Then and Now"

Selections related to novels

Periodicals, books, and electronic media for formal research

 

POETRY:

"The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"

"O Captain, My Captain"

"The Raven"

"Casey at the Bat"

"The Road Not Taken"

 

SHORT STORIES (selections from Elements of Literature):

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

"The Ransom of Red Chief"

"To Build a Fire"

 

LITERARY TERMS:

Antagonist

Climax

Conflict

Dialogue

Dialect

Exposition

Falling action

Fiction

First person point of view

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Irony

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Personification

Plot

Point of view

Protagonist

Setting

Simile

Theme

Third person point of view

 

VOCABULARY:

Selected words from readings

 

MLA RESEARCH SKILLS:

Parenthetical Documentation

Works Cited Page

Outlines

Pagination

Header

Default Font

Default Margins

Double Space

Title Page