Goals, Objectives Skills, & Outcomes
COURSE OUTCOMES
What will I learn from this course?
Utilize pre-writing techniques.
Write short, well-organized paragraphs with a topic sentence, support, and a conclusion.
Write simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Revise and edit paragraphs for content, organization, vocabulary and sentence structure.
Demonstrate developing recognition of the conventions of standard English grammar usage through writing.
SKILLS
What specific skills will I learn?
Writing
Paragraph Writing: Narrative, Descriptive, Process
Listing, Brainstorming and mapping
Paragraph organization: topic sentence, supporting details and concluding sentence
Proper punctuation, capitalization
Structure
Simple sentences (S-V-O)
Compound sentences (and/or/so/but)
Complex sentences (when, if, because, before, after)
Preposition phrases (in, on, at)
Infinitives (to + base verb)
Grammar
Irregular past tense verbs
Present and past progressive tenses
Present perfect tense
Modal verbs (can, could, should, must, will, etc.)
Adjectives (comparatives and superlatives)
Adverbs of frequency (usually, sometimes, never, always)
Quantifiers (some, many, much)
Subject-verb agreement (singular/ plural consistency)
*** Although this is a writing & structure class,
we will also learn about reading & speaking. ***