ELECTIVES
Intensive Reading: Fields of Reading
High School · 9 – 12 Courses
Intensive Reading: Fields of Reading
Overview
This course will engage you in interactive text-based discussions, question generation, and research opportunities. You will write in response to reading, and cite evidence when answering text dependent questions orally and in writing. Scaffolding is provided as necessary as you will engage in reading and writing increasingly complex text, and is removed as your reading and writing abilities improve over time.
Major Topics and Concepts
Informational Text
3- Examining Images
- Summarizing to Find a Central Idea
- Author’s Purpose
Writing Skills
5- Research a Cause
- Find Key Facts
- Create an Outline
- Revising and Editing
- Create a PSA
Narratives
5- Meet ‘The Cold Equations’
- The First Read-Through
- Close Reading for Theme
- Close Reading for Characterization
- Complete Understanding
Non-Fiction
3- The Main Idea
- Author’s Tone and Diction
- Insects for Dinner
Drama and Poetry
5- The Shakespeare Mix-up
- Sonnets
- Introducing Hamlet
- Reading Hamlet
- Modern Interpretations
Arguments
3- Parts of an Argument
- Reading for Argument
- Reading for Language
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