ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM:

The following will be a list of things that we will cover in English.

EVALUATION:
Evaluation is the means through which the extent of learning is measured. Because evaluation is directed towards the improvement of both teaching and learning, and because learning is not a lock-step event, methods of viewing progress over time is devised through a series of ongoing student feedback, assignments and tests. Formal examinations are also held in December, March and June.

Secondary I

Grammar:
1. Nouns:
a. common
b. proper
c. abstract
d. collective
e. singular and plural nouns
f. possessive case

2. PRONOUNS:
a. personal pronouns

3. ADJECTIVES:
a. 3 degrees of comparison
-positive degree
-comparative degree
-superlative degree

4. VERBS:
a. to be
b. to have
c. action and linking verbs
d. helping verbs
e. agreement of subject and verb
f. sequence of tenses
g. present, past and past participle form of common irregular verbs

5. ADVERBS:
a. how?
b. when?
c. where?
d. how much?
e. how little?

6. PREPOSITIONS:
a. prepositions and prepositional phrases

7. CONJUNCTIONS

8. INTERJECTiONS

9. PUNCTUATION:
a. use of the period
b. use of the comma
c. question mark
d. exclamation mark
e. apostrophe for possession and contraction

10. SPELLING AND VOCABULARY:
a. Wordly Wise Book 3

11. WRITING TYPES OF SENTENCES:
a. declarative
b. interrogative
c. exclamatory
d. imperative
e. fragments
f. run-on-sentences

12. TYPES OF WRITING:
a. topic sentences
b. paragraph writing
c. narrative descriptive and expository writing.

13. LITERATURE:
a. elements of short stories
b. setting
c. characterization-antagonist/protagonist, static/dynamic

14. PLOT:
a. conflict- external and internal
b. point of view
c. flashback
d. foreshadowing
e. suspense

15. POETRY:
a. literal and figurative language
b. imagery and sensory detail
c. simile
d. metaphor
e. personification

16. NOVEL(S):
 Note: Different novels will be explored with different classes
a. Pigman
b. Bud, not Buddy
c. Sniper