Quarterly ELA Curriculum
Please check here for our ELA Curriculum for each quarter!
📚📝 ELA: New Perspectives
In the first quarter, ELA students will be reading and experiencing stories featuring characters and people gaining new perspectives. We will make connections to real life people and characters. Our first novel will be Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn. In this novel, we will study the main characters as they discover more about themselves and their family. Advanced ELA students will also read the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz.
Our essential questions are:
- How does location impact your perspective?
- How does culture shape your perspective?
- How do relationships shape your perspective?
- How does location, culture, and relationships shape your perspective?
Literary Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining unknown words or phrases, studying characters, settings, and events, and determining and supporting a theme within a story.
Informational Skills: making inferences while citing text evidence, determining the main idea and details of a text, determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases, and distinguishing between firsthand and secondhand accounts using text evidence.
In writing, we will begin with different styles of narrative writing. We will learn how to read stories closely while taking quality notes and tracking story development. We will learn how to write in different points of view and how to build upon a story with our new ideas. We will also work on sentence structure and reviewing elements of writing in our daily language review.
In word study, we will review the word inquiry process and study Greek and Latin roots.
