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Reading: The teacher models reading strategies and provides guided practice to promote comprehension during prereading, during reading and postreading of a variety of genres. The teacher asks students to process the information from texts and demonstrate their comprehension by speaking and in writing.
Vocabulary: The teacher integrates vocabulary instruction with reading. Key vocabulary focuses on the need for students to understand the words both in the context of reading the selections and for the usefulness of the vocabulary beyond the selection. Some emphasis on prefixes, suffixes and roots is taught separately.
Literature: The teacher provides the means  | | Careful reading and literary analysis is a key component of all courses. |
for students to develop background information about the selections read including the historical, cultural and biographical context. The teacher reinforces and further develops the students' skills in using literary terminology to respond to and analyze literature. Students are given opportunities to make connections to the literature including text to self, text to text and self to world.
Writing: The teacher assigns both informal and formal writing assignments. Students respond to readings and other classroom instruction on an almost daily basis. The students keep a readers'/writers' notebook for informal responses to reading and other classroom activities and to use as a basis  | | These are poetry collections created by students. |
for more formal writing assignments. The teacher models and instructs students in the writing process including prewriting (idea generating), drafting (organizing, developing), revising and editing. Students receive feedback from both teacher and peers during the process. The teacher instructs students about how to consider audience and purpose for their writing. Spelling and grammar instruction is integrated with the teaching of writing.
Speaking, listening and viewing: The teacher provides instruction for both small group communication and more formal presentations. The teacher instructs students on consideration of audience and purpose for their speaking.
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| | | | | 9-10 Novels Year A | Year A
-The Bluest Eye
-The Chocolate War
-The Crucible
-Don't Tell Anyone
-The Education of Little Tree
-Ender's Shadow
-The Giver
-Holes
-The House on Mango Street
-The Iliad
-The Outsiders
-The Joy-Luck Club
-A Lesson Before Dying
-Makes Me Wanna Holler
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
-Monster
-Roll of Thunder Hear Me Cry
-Romeo and Juliet
-Strangers From a Distant Shore
-Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
-Voices of Rondo
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| 9-10 Novels Year B | Year B
-Animal Farm
-Black Boy
-Black Voices
-Braided Lives
-The Color Purple
-Days of Rondo
-Devil in a Blue Dress
-Ender's Game
-Friday Night Lights
-Hatchet
-Ishmael
-The Lord of the Flies
-Medicine River
-Night Flying Woman
-Of Mice and Men
-Othello
-Red Badge of Courage
-Reservation Blues
-A Separate Peace
-The Things They Carried
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Vision Quest
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