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Middle School Middle School Language Arts III

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

Get ready to fine-tune and strengthen your Language Arts foundations. Through reading, writing, and rhetoric, this course will allow you to examine how authors fine-tune and utilize their skills to create purposeful texts. You will develop the reading, writing, language, and speaking/listening skills necessary for success in high school, college, career, and beyond. You will also evaluate and analyze voice, purpose, diction, syntax, and rhetoric in historical speeches, informational texts, and classic and contemporary literature through guided readings, interactive practice, and formal assessments. This course will also allow you to refine your narrative, informational, and argumentative writing skills through the repeated practice of planning, drafting, revising, and editing your written work.

Module One: A Strong Foundation

-Literary elements and plot analysis

-Context clues

-Idioms

-Central idea

-Text features and structures

-Explicit and implicit details

-Summary writing

-Clauses and phrases

-Parallel structure

-Sound devices in poetry


Module Two: Get the Facts

-Informational texts

-Source credibility

-Cause-and-effect essay planning, organizing, and writing

-Plagiarism and Works Cited pages

-MLA formatting with parenthetical citations

-Elaborative techniques

-Syntax

-Revising and editing

-Folklore and folktales

-Narrative planning


Module Three: Words Have Power

-Figurative language

-Connotation and denotation

-Author's purpose

-Semicolons

-Etymology

-Analogies

-Logical fallacies and reasoning

-Active and passive voice

-Paraphrasing

-Archetypes

-Historical context


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