Critical Content

Essential Skills

·         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

·         A Nation Divided and Rebuilt

·         CBA: Constitutional Issues

Resources

·         American History: Beginnings through Reconstruction (McDougal Littell)

·         Prentice Hall Literature

·         Write Source

·         My Access http://www.gomyaccess.com/myaccess/do/log

·         OSPI Assessment http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/default.aspx

Critical Content

Essential Skills

·         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

Resources

·         American History: Reconstruction to the Present (McDougal Littell)

·         Washington State History in the Pacific Northwest

·         Prentice Hall Literature

·         Write Source

·         My Access http://www.gomyaccess.com/myaccess/do/log

·         OSPI Assessment website http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/default.aspx

Critical Content

Essential Skills

·         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

·         CBA: Humans and the Environment

·         Latin America: History and Geography

·         Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare and Elizabethan England

Resources

·         World History (McDougal Littell)

·         Literature and the Language Arts

·         Language Essentials

·         The College Writer

·         My Access http://www.gomyaccess.com/myaccess/do/log ;

·         Turnitin.com http://turnitin.com/static/index.html

Additional Reading:    India: It’s Culture and People

                                                India Through Indian Eyes

                                                Goode’s World Atlas

                                                Wild Swans