Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
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People understand text
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Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.
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Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
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Course Outline:
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Writing Rubric:
This is how ALL your writing will be assessed in ELA 9.
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Literary Devices:
Here is a file for your reference; it includes the literary devices we will study throughout the year:
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MLA Sample Paper | |
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Writing 101 - Paragraph | |
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4 Elements of Paragraph Writing | |
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Often, the word narrative is synonymous with story. A narrative is the story (fiction or non-fiction) told and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character or series of characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most non-fiction, the author himself/herself in the narrator. You are narrators of your own lives all the time. Something happens in class. You go to lunch; then, you tell the details that are important to you in the order that seems right to you. The story that you tell is a narrative.
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narrative-writing.pdf | |
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12 Steps | |
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Character
A character is a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work. Setting The setting of a short story is the time and place in which it happens. Authors often use descriptions of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of setting. Plot A plot is a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict. __/--\__ Conflict Conflict is a struggle between two people or things in a short story. The main character is usually on one side of the central conflict. On the other side, the main character may struggle against another important character, against the forces of nature, against society, or even against something inside himself or herself (feelings, emotions, illness). Theme The theme is the central idea or belief in a short story: (i.e. love is blind, bullying, chaos & order, coming of age) |
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Analysis Chart | |
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Ted Talk Rubric | |
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Parts of an Essay Presentation | |
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Essay Writing 101 | |
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Developing a repertoire of ways to think about or understand ideas and contexts helps us to learn new things. Novel studies are a way to learn and apply strategies to comprehend, to see things differently or understand others with differing, even opposing viewpoints. In addition, the novel study is a way of:
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Themes Presentation | |
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Poetry Forms | |
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Analysis | |
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