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| Curriculum: English - Writing |
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Writing I
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(Grade 1) |
| Covers writing complete sentences, recognizing simple sentences, the sentence types, writing about a main idea, looking for errors, writing about personal surroundings, telling a story from a character’s point of view, using descriptive words, writing ideas, and opinions. |
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Writing II
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(Grade 2) |
| Covers writing complete subjects, complete predicates, complete sentences, fragments, run-on sentences, the writing process, writing paragraphs, writing letters, journals, titles, story endings, details, sensory words, and figurative language. |
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Writing III
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(Grade 3) |
| Review of subjects, predicates, fragments, run-on sentences, recognizing sentence types, the writing process from pre-writing to publishing, letters, journals, descriptions, newspaper stories, titles, story endings, details, book reports, sensory words, expository writing, comparison and contrast, literary conventions, and figurative writing. |
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Writing IV
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(Grade 4) |
| Review of the writing process, writing sentences, writing paragraphs, specialized writing assignments including narratives, journals, letters, descriptions, titles, story endings, and book reports. Also covers sensory words, expository writing, imagery, and analogies. |
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Writing V
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(Grade 5) |
| Review of the writing process, writing using a variety of writing strategies, sequencing ideas, writing complete sentences, identifying run-on sentences and sentence fragments, formal and informal language in writing, writing analogies, using the library to access information, summarizing,writing sketches, ideas and opinions, essays, poetry, drama, and folk literature. |
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Writing VI
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(Grade 6) |
| Covers writing sentences and paragraphs, narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive paragraphs, analogies, newspaper stories, book reports, summarizing, writing story endings, using formal and informal language, and sketches. |
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Writing VII
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(Grade 7) |
| Topic areas include identifying the audience, writing introductory and concluding sentences, using a variety of techniques, organization skills, identifying sentence types and their punctuation, writing narrative or expository stories, summarizing skills, writing biographical sketches, essays, and creative writing. |
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Writing VIII
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(Grade 8) |
| Review of the writing process from brainstorming to publishing, specialized writing assignments including journal writing, writing paragraphs, writing using formal and informal language, letterwriting, analogies, summaries, and book reports. Also provides hints on how to use a library to access information. |
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Writing IX
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(Grade 9) |
| High School level review of the writing process covering pre-writing, identifying and narrowing a topic, drafting, editing, publishing, writing complete sentences, correct word choices, writing topic sentences, writing analogies, using the library, writing biographical sketches, ideas and opinions, writing essays, writing short stories, poetry, plays, and folk literature. |
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Writing X
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(Grade 10) |
| Covers journal, resume, and newspaper writing, review of the writing process, writing sentences and paragraphs, specialized writing projects including writing analogies, correspondence, learning logs, story endings, expository, descriptive, and persuasive essays, creative writing including poetic text, short stories, and scripts. |
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Writing XI
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(Grade 11) |
| Review of the writing process, using strategy, sequence, drafting, proofreading, publishing, identifying and writing sentence types, writing paragraphs for various purposes, chronological and spatial importance, writing analogies, newspaper stories, sketches, essays, summarizing, and creative writing. |
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Writing XII
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(Grade 12) |
| Covers selecting and narrowing a topic, identifying audience, writing introductions and conclusions, writing strategies, the writing process, journal writing, writing persuasive, descriptive, expository, and narrative paragraphs, writing story endings, summarizing, expressing ideas and opinions, writing short stories, poetry, drama, and folk literature. |
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