Month
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Essen
tial
Questions
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Themes and
Topics
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Content
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Skills
and
Assessment
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Tools
and
Resour
ces
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Standards
and
Benchmarks
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Interdis
ciplinary
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August/
January
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What is your
heritage?
What do you believe
in?What is the
importance of
knowing the truth?
In what ways or
circumstances might
truth be subjective?
Who and what are
you responsible for?
What lies within your
circle of universe?
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Plagiary
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• Review writing
process and
essay format;
continue Six
Traits
development,
emphasizing
Idea
Development
and Sentence
Fluency
• Emphasize
outlining and
organization
• FCAT modeling
and scoring
• Advocate
throughout
course: peer
evaluation,
journal writing,
Daily Oral
• Language,
model analysis,
writing on
examinations,
grammar
integrated with
composition
throughout
program
•Review
sentence errors
and structure
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September/
February
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How are we
persuaded?
How do cultural
differences cause
change in
individuals? In what
ways are the
experiences of Elie
Wiesel and Jeanne
Wakatsuki similar?
Different?
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Research
practices
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• Using
transitions
• Writing
introductions/
thesis
statements
• Emphasize
expository writing
• Sentence
elaboration and
revision
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October/
March
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What are the
qualities and
circumstances that
make people
heroes?
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•Paragraph
elaboration and
development
•Expanding and
elaborating ideas
•Internet skills
• **Emphasize
persuasive
writing
•Topic sentences
•Subject/verb
agreement
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November/
April
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How do we
persuade? How is
persuasion and
propaganda
available to ordinary
people?
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• Emphasize
focus/tone/style
• Introduction to
research paper
•Using
summary/paraph
rase/quotations
•**Emphasize
connection
between reading
and writing
• Quotation
marks, colon,
ellipsis, MLA
documentation
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December/
May
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(left open to makeup
for lost time due to
hurricanes or
re-teaching and
reinforcement)
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• Fine tune
research writing
for synthesis
•Writing short
and extended
responses to
informational text
•Transitions for
coherence
•Pronouns
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