Language Arts Curriculum

Unit 2- Short Stories
Big Question: Does every conflict have a winner?
Big Question Words	Reading Selections	Reading Skill	Literary Analysis	Vocabulary	Writing Workshop	Language Progressive Skills
attitude, challenge, communication, conflict, opposition, outcome, resolution, understanding	Model Selection: The Treasure of Lemon Brown Common Core: RL.3, RL.6 RI.3, RI.6	Making Predictions: Making an intelligent judgement about what will happen next based on details in the text and prior knowledge.	Short Story: Review plot, setting, conflict, point of view, characters, and symbols		Review of a Short Story pp. 302-307 Work in Progress pp.247 and 279 Short Story pp.384-391 Work in Progress pp. 335 and 361
	Two Kinds Common Core: RL.6 W.3.a, W.3.b, W.7 L.1, L.4.b, L.6		Character traits: 1. Explore characters' motivations 2. Key words used to describe each character (physically, emotionally,etc.)	reproach, conspired, devastated, nonchalantly, expectations, sentimental		The Principal Parts of Verbs Present, present participle, past and past participle
	Seventh Grade Common Core: Rl.4 W.2.a, W.2.f		Comparing Literary Works through Comparing Idioms: 1. An expression with a meaning that is different from the meanings of the actual words	elective, scowl, conviction
	Melting Pot			fluent, bigots
Assessment: Test Practice: Unit 2 Review pp.398-403
Assessment: Test Practice: Unit 2 Review pp.398-403