Language

Students will be able to identify common conventions of the dramatic texts and the stage.

Students will be able to define, identify, and distinguish between simple and progressive verb tenses.

Students will be able to correctly diagram various types of sentences and phrases.

Students will be able to use a variety of strategies to revise and improve written work.

Students will be able to follow and create multi-step directions.

Students will be able to define, identify, and correctly use relative pronouns and relative clauses.

Students will be able to define and identify appositives, restrictive phrases, and non-restrictive phrases.

Students will be able to identify and properly use idioms in a sentence.

Students will be able to analyze aspects of characters in stories, including whether they are main or minor and dynamic or static.

Students will be able to define and identify direct and indirect characterization.

Students will be able to define and identify types of plot conflict, including character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. nature, and character vs. society.

Students will be able to use and interpret figurative language.

Students will be able to define and identify the theme of a story.

Students will be able to identify the topic sentences and supporting details of a passage or text.

Students will be able to define and identify simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

Students will be able to identify the sequence of events presented in a passage.