Quarter 2

Quarter 2:

• Impact of words and phrases on meaning and tone

• Dialogue and incidents in a story have on the plot, characters, and decisions made by the characters.

• Points of view creating suspense or humor in the text.

• Textual evidence

• Two or more themes of a story, provide a comprehensive summary of the text.

• Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts to style and meaning.

• Figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

• The Highly Proficient student can:

  • • • a. explain the function of verbals and evaluate their function in particular sentences.

      • b. intentionally form and use verbs in the active and passive voice to achieve a desired style.

      • c. strategically form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.

      • d. analyze and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.

• Verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood

• Benchmark review