NINTH LITERATURE/COMPOSITION 92A
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for the college-bound student. The semester will have a balance of composition, grammar, and literature. The development of vocabulary, speaking, listening, and research skills will be included.- WRITING
- Writing process
- Narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive paragraphs developing a topic sentence using a variety of methods
- Recognition and use of various sentence types
- Introduction of essay with thesis statement (one to three five-paragraph compositions)
- Appropriate voice of writer with n awareness of audience
- Strategies and related terms for responses to essay test questions
- Avoidance
of fragments, run-ons and comma splices
- READING/LITERATURE
- Recommendation of three parallel works
- Development of higher order thinking skills through the study of different genres: short story and drama
- Knowledge
of relevant terms for genres studied
- USAGE/GRAMMAR
- Review of parts of speech parts of sentence, basic capitalization, end punctuation, types of sentences
- Review of all internal punctuation, subject-verb agreement
- Study
of parallel structure, pronoun-antecedent agreement, usage, manuscript
form
- LANGUAGE/VOCABULARY
- Working knowledge of SAT format and words
- Understanding of synonyms, antonyms, analogies, words in context, and other devices of language
- Expansion
of reading, writing, and speaking vocabulary
- RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY
- Orientation to high school mead center and writing lab
- Introduction
of skills necessary for research papers: paraphrasing, direct quotations,
and documentation
- SPEAKING/LISTENING
- Conceptions, development, and presentation of project
- Development of active listening skills, discussion skills, and note-taking skills
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