Goals, Objectives Skills, & Outcomes

COURSE OUTCOMES

What will I learn from this course?



  1. Utilize pre-writing techniques.

  2. Write short, well-organized paragraphs with a topic sentence, support, and a conclusion.

  3. Write simple, compound, and complex sentences.

  4. Revise and edit paragraphs for content, organization, vocabulary and sentence structure.

  5. Demonstrate developing recognition of the conventions of standard English grammar usage through writing.



SKILLS

What specific skills will I learn?


Writing

  1. Paragraph Writing: Narrative, Descriptive, Process

  2. Listing, Brainstorming and mapping

  3. Paragraph organization: topic sentence, supporting details and concluding sentence

  4. Proper punctuation, capitalization


Structure

  1. Simple sentences (S-V-O)

  2. Compound sentences (and/or/so/but)

  3. Complex sentences (when, if, because, before, after)

  4. Preposition phrases (in, on, at)

  5. Infinitives (to + base verb)


Grammar

  1. Irregular past tense verbs

  2. Present and past progressive tenses

  3. Present perfect tense

  4. Modal verbs (can, could, should, must, will, etc.)

  5. Adjectives (comparatives and superlatives)

  6. Adverbs of frequency (usually, sometimes, never, always)

  7. Quantifiers (some, many, much)

  8. Subject-verb agreement (singular/ plural consistency)



*** Although this is a writing & structure class,

we will also learn about reading & speaking. ***