WRITING:

Ideas and Content
Voice
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Conventions
Organization
WRITING PROCESS:
Planning/Prewriting/Brainstorming
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing
WRITING SKILLS:

Grammar of the Greats!
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 novels will be done with all classes
A Single Shard
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Monster
A Solitary Blue
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
The Alchemist
Nothing but the Truth
The Pearl
DRAMA: Not all dramas will be done with 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:
"Can't Write a Poem About McDonald's

"Maybe Dats Youwr Pwoblem Too"

"Casey at the Bat"

Other selections from Nancie Atwell's "Naming the World" resource

SHORT STORIES (selections from Elements of Literature):
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"The Black Cat"
"The Necklace"
"The Monkey's Paw"
"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
First Page of Report