Humanities
7th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies
The language arts curriculum is integrated with the social studies United States History course to promote content relevance and interdisciplinary comprehension.
Critical Content |
Essential Skills |
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· Novel Studies |
· Grammar and Usage |
The Fifth of March by Ann Rinaldi |
· Conventions and Sentence Structure |
West Against the Wind by Liza Ketchum |
· Vocabulary Development |
Brady by Jean Fritz |
· Critical Thinking/Reading Skills |
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton |
· Well-developed Paragraphs |
· Short stories from the Literature book |
· Multi-paragraph Essays |
· The English Colonies |
· Persuasive and Expository writing styles |
· Creating a New Nation |
· Speaking/Presentation Skills |
· The Early Republic |
· Listening Skills |
· A Changing Nation |
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· A Nation Divided and Rebuilt |
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· CBA: Constitutional Issues |
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· American History: Beginnings through Reconstruction (McDougal Littell) |
· Prentice Hall Literature |
· Write Source |
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8th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies
The 8th grade American literature study is integrated with the social studies curriculum to promote content relevance and interdisciplinary comprehension.
Critical Content |
Essential Skills |
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· Novel Studies |
· Grammar and Usage |
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte |
· Sentence Structure and Conventions |
Land of Promise by Joan Lowry Nixon |
· Vocabulary Development |
No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt |
· Critical Reading and Thinking Skills |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
· 8 Sentence Paragraph Structure |
· Short Stories from the Literature Book |
· Multi-Paragraph Essays |
· America Transformed |
· Persuasive and Expository writing styles |
· War and the Jazz Age |
· Research Skills |
· Depression, War and Recovery |
· Listening Skills |
· Tensions at Home and Abroad |
· Speaking and Presentation Skills |
· Washington State History |
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Resources |
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· American History: Reconstruction to the Present (McDougal Littell) |
· Washington State History in the Pacific Northwest |
· Prentice Hall Literature |
· Write Source |
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9th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies
The ninth grade World History part one course links with the 9th grade language arts course, so the literature students read relates closely to the themes, historical settings, characters and events of their World History studies. This course links with the 10th grade World History part two.
Critical Content |
Essential Skills |
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· Lord of the Flies and world political systems |
· Grammar, vocabulary development and usage |
· South Asia history and geography with emphasis on India and Pakistan |
· Formal essay writing skills in persuasive and expository style |
· East Asia with an emphasis on China and Japan |
· Reading comprehension, interpretation and analysis |
· Ramayana: South Asia cultural lenses |
· Literary analysis |
· Animal Farm: Literary historical comparison with Mao’s China |
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· CBA: Humans and the Environment |
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· Latin America: History and Geography |
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· Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare and Elizabethan England |
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· World History (McDougal Littell) |
· Literature and the Language Arts |
· Language Essentials |
· The College Writer |
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Additional Reading: India: It’s Culture and People |
India Through Indian Eyes |
Goode’s World Atlas |
Wild Swans |
In addition students will be expected to access databases available on the LWSD student portal.