Goals and Course Questions

Goals

1. Create lifelong learners

2. Express creativity and collaborate with others through many forms of communication

3. Think critically, question texts, and establish opinions about the world around us

4. Grow and become perspective-taking learners who understand every person is worthy of love and respect

Course Questions

1. 1. What habits do successful readers and writers’ exhibit?

   2. What does it mean to maintain a writer's notebook? What are the impacts of a writer's notebook?

   3. What stories to you have to tell, and why do they matter?

   4. What does it mean to interpret and evaluate texts and support ideas with text evidence?

   5. How can mentor texts be used to influence an author’s technique?

   6. In a culture where we are bombarded by others trying to define or influence us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?

   7. What are the similarities/differences between different genres and types of text?

   8. How can we read beyond a basic story to find inferred/implied meaning?

   9. What tools or techniques can be used to organize and categorize information collected?

   10.  How are sound, form, mood, and figurative language used to create meaning?

   11. What does it mean to look at something from someone else's perspective?

   12. What does perspective taking mean?