Unit 1

Short Stories: 

• The Tell Tale Heart

• Flowers for Algernon

• We Real Cool

• Healing Brick City

Novel:

• The Outsiders by SE Hinton

• That Was Then, This Is Now by SE Hinton

Reading Skills: 

• Annotation

• Making Predictions

• Making Inferences

• Drawing Conclusions

• Summarizing

• Identifying Elements of Characterization

• Identifying Literary Devices

  • Symbolism

  • Foreshadowing 

  • Flashback

  • Irony

• Identifying Story Elements

  • Theme

  • Exposition

  • Inciting Incident

  • Conflict

  • Rising Action

  • Climax

  • Falling Action

  • Resolution

• Monitoring for Meaning

  • Vocabulary

  • Context Clues

Writing Skills: Historical Fiction

• • Creating and Maintaining a Google Site

  • Setting

  • Characterization

  • Plot

  • Literary Devices

    • Flashback

    • Foreshadowing

    • Symbolism