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English 10 month Plan for Middle
| Grade 6 |
| 1st M |
2nd M |
3rd M |
4th M |
5th M |
Literary Analysis:
- Understand plot structure
Reading Skills:
- Retell story events
- Summarize plot events
Vocabulary Skills:
- Use context clues to derive meaning from words
- Use restatement clues to derive meaning from words
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Pronouns
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a short story |
Literary Analysis:
- Understand the way setting influences plot
- Analyze conflict
Reading Skills:
- Make predictions and inferences
Vocabulary Skills:
- Use restatement clues to derive meaning from words
- Use example clues to derive meaning from words
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Using different verb tenses
Spelling:
- Adding ed and ing
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a short - |
Literary Analysis:
- Analyze conflict
- Analyze moral lessons from the story
Reading Skills:
- Compare and contrast texts
Vocabulary Skills:
- Use example clues to derive meaning from words
- Use contrast/antonym clues to derive meaning from words
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Using irregular verbs
Spelling:
- Words with ie and ei
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a problem-solution essay |
Literary Analysis:
- Analyze moral lessons from the story
- Identify and analyze the story climax and suspense
Reading Skills:
- Make inferences about character
- Make and verify predictions
Vocabulary Skills:
- Multiple meaning words
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Using end marks
- Using commas to separate items in a series
Spelling:
- Words with ie and ei
Writing:
- Creative writing |
Literary Analysis:
- understand themes as conveyed through characters, actions and images
- recognize the difference between subject, theme and plot
Reading Skills:
- evaluate a writer’s conclusions and evidence
- make generalizations
Vocabulary Skills:
- Identify and interpret figurative language
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Agreement
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a personal narrative |
| 6th M |
7th M |
8th M |
9th M |
10th M |
Literary Analysis:
- Identify and analyze recurring themes across works
- Analyze fairy tales
Reading Skills:
- Make and adjust predictions
- summarize plot
Vocabulary Skills:
- Interpret idioms
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Using Modifiers
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a comparison-contrast essay |
Literary Analysis:
- Identify and analyze forms of fiction, including a novella, a short story, and folk tales
Reading Skills:
- Recognize and evaluate evidence including quotations, statistics and case studies
- Make and adjust predictions
- Analyze a comparison-contrast article
Vocabulary Skills:
- Identify, interpret and use multiple-meaning words
- Clarify word meanings by using definitions, examples, restatements, and contrasts
- Understand synonyms
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Writing effective sentences
- Kinds of sentences
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise a comparison-contrast essay |
Literary Analysis:
- Understand the characteristics of fiction
- Understand first-and third-person narration
Reading Skills:
- Draw conclusions, generalizations from textual evidence and prior knowledge
- Analyze an author’s argument, point of view or perspective
- Analyze sequence
- Analyze propaganda techniques used on television
- Analyze false and misleading information presented in the media
Vocabulary Skills:
- Identify, interpret and use multiple-meaning words
- Clarify word meanings by using definitions, examples, restatements, and contrasts
- Understand synonyms
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Writing effective sentences
Writing:
- Creative writing |
Literary Analysis:
- Analyze point of view, autobiography, biography and tone
- Analyze and connect main ideas
Reading Skills:
- Connect and clarify the main ideas of related texts
- Summarize main events
- Track sequence of events
Vocabulary Skills:
- Understand and use analogies
Grammar & Mechanics:
- Using Verb infinitive
- Using italics and quotation marks
Writing:
- Develop, write and revise an informative report |
Literary Analysis:
- Analyze common literary devices such as the use of irony, metaphor, and symbolism
Reading Skills:
- analyze assertions and support
- make inferences
- use prior knowledge
Vocabulary Skills:
- Understand and use analogie | |
| Grade 7 |
| 1st M |
2nd M |
3rd M |
4th M |
5th M |
- Literacy focus : plot structure
- Analyzing plot structure and foreshadowing
- Literacy skill : conflict
- Reading skills :retell events
- Vocabulary skills : clarify word meaning using context clues
- Writing : expressing an opinion
- Narrative writing : story 1st draft / 2nd draft
- Grammar Verbs |
- Literacy focus : plot structure
- plot structure
- Analyzing the elements id science fiction
- Literacy skill : suspense
- Reading skills : making prediction
- Vocabulary skills : clarify word meaning using context clues
- Writing :
-- Narrative writing story production
-- Expository writing compare and contrast.
- Grammar verbs |
- Literacy focus analyzing characters
- Literacy skills: characterization
- Character traits
- Motivation
- Analyze the character effect on the plot
- Reading skills: making inferences recognizing main idea
- Vocabulary skills
- Understand roots and affixes
- Writing : descriptive character sketch
- Grammar adjectives and adverbs |
- Literacy focus : discovering theme
- Literacy skill : Analyze themes.
- Reading skills : analyze cause and effect
- Vocabulary skills: identify and explain idioms
- Writing : narrative writing
- Grammar : phrases identifying prepositional , phrase identifying adjectives phrase |
- Literacy focus : analyzing theme
- Literacy skill: recurring themes comparing and contrasting different genres with recurring themes
- Reading skills : continue analyze cause and effect
- Vocabulary skills : identify and explain idioms
- Writing : narrative writing
- Grammar : identifying adverbs phrases |
| 6th M |
7th M |
8th M |
9th M |
10th M |
- Literacy focus : Analyze authors point of view
- Literacy skills analyze first person omniscient , objectives and subjective point of view.
- Reading skills : analyze author perspective
- Vocabulary skills: synonyms
- Writing : write a biographical sketch
- Grammar: clauses indentifying and using independent and subordinate clauses. |
- Literacy focus : Analyze authors point of view
- Literacy skills analyze biography and autobiography
- Reading skills : using the SQ3R system for studying informational text
- Vocabulary skills: clarify word meaning using definitions
- Writing : descriptive essay
- Grammar: direct and indirect objects. |
- Literacy focus :analyze verse the elements of poetry and the sound of poetry
- Literacy skills understand images and forms poetry , sound of poetry and understand how to read poetry.
- Reading skills : understand how to read poetry.
- Vocabulary skills: Antonyms
- Writing :write a poem
- Grammar: simple and compound sentences. |
- Literacy focus: Analyze myths, fables and legends.
- Literacy skills: identify and analyze the elements of myth
- Reading skills : summarize texts .
- Vocabulary skills: prefixes
- Writing :write a play 1st draft
- Grammar: complex sentences . |
- Literacy focus: analyze folks tales
- Literacy skills: analyze moral in folk tales
- Reading skills : making prediction
- Vocabulary skills: using specific words
- Writing :write a play 2nd draft
- Grammar: Review | |
| Grade 8 |
| 1st M |
2nd M |
3rd M |
4th M |
5th M |
- Literacy focus : analyzing plot and analyzing position and support
- Literacy skill : analyze plot structure and analyze story motifs
- Reading skills : compare and contrast stories
- Vocabulary skills : multiple meaning word
- Writing : expository writing , personal narratives
- Grammar : review parts of speech , using subject and verb with prepositional phrases |
- Literacy focus : characterization , analyze character , analyze the effect of the character on the plot
- Literacy skill : understand characterization , analyze character motivation , analyze historical fiction
- Reading skills : evaluate historical accuracy , identify the main idea
- Vocabulary skills : identify synonyms and use context clues
- Writing : writing informative reports , analyzing a character.
- Grammar: agreement with indefinite pronouns , agreement with subjects joined by and or .. |
- Literacy focus : analyze setting and its influence on mood and tone
- Literacy skill : analyze setting and mood
- Reading skills : visualize setting , analyze magazine articles, analyze chronological order
- Vocabulary skills :verify word meaning by example, understand homophones and homographs
- Writing : writing science fiction story , create and explain an invention
- Grammar: verbs, identifying and using verb tense , active and passive voice. |
- Literacy focus : analyze theme
- Literacy skill : analyze main idea in factual reporting
- Reading skills : use prior knowledge to understand factual reporting
- Vocabulary skills :analyze connotations and denotations
- Writing : writing a historical biography
- Grammar: modifiers , using modifiers correctly , avoiding double negatives and comparisons |
- Literacy focus : continue analyze theme
- Literacy skill : analyze refrains , understand allusions
- Reading skills : :understand summery and paraphrase , take notes , analyze and create out line
- Vocabulary skills: antonyms
- Writing : persuasive writing , supporting a position
- Grammar : phrases , different types of phrases ,adjective / adverbs phrases. |
| 6th M |
7th M |
8th M |
9th M |
10th M |
- Literacy focus : analyzing literacy devices and style
- Literacy skill : analyze irony, analyze the narrators style , analyze elements of humor
- Reading skills : understand fallacious reasoning , compare humorous styles
- Vocabulary skills :prefixes
- Writing :persuasive writing ,problem solution
- Grammar: clauses identifying and using objective /adverbs and noun clauses |
- Literacy focus : analyzing poetry
- Literacy skill : analyze characteristic of different types of poetry. Analyze how to tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry.
- Reading skills : use specific strategies to read and analyze poetry
- Vocabulary skills : suffixes
- Writing : compare and contrast poems.
- Grammar: compound sentence
- Direct and indirect objects. |
- Literacy focus :literacy criticism
- Literacy skill : understand literacy criticism
- Reading skills : analyze an article unity and text structure.
- Vocabulary skills : idioms and multiple meaning words
- Writing : writing a research paper
- Grammar : complements direct and indirect objects. |
- Literacy focus : drama reading a play
- Literacy skill : analyze dramatic devices
- Reading skills : recognize how to read a play.
- Vocabulary skills : context clue
- Writing : writing short stories
- Grammar : complex sentences |
- Literacy focus : continue drama reading a play
- Literacy skill : continue with analyzing dramatic devices
- Reading skills : continue recognizing how to read a play
- Vocabulary skills :review
- Writing : persuasive writing , writing advertisements.
- Grammar: review | |
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