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English I Language Arts Curriculum Resources

1st Nine Weeks

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Language Arts

SPI 3002.1.1

Demonstrate an understanding of the eight parts of speech, including their troublesome aspects, such as how to form the past and past participle of irregular but commonly used verbs.
Informative: Parts of Speech
Informative: Parts of Speech
Informative: Parts of Speech
Informative: Parts of Speech

SPI 3002.1.2

Identify the patterns of a given set of sentences.
Handout: Sentence patterns
Handout: Sentence patterns
Interactive Activity: Sentence patterns
Lesson plan: Sentence patterns

SPI 3002.1.3

Combine a set of simple sentences into a single compound or complex sentence.
Informative:Sentence combining
Handout: Sentence combining
Handout: Sentence combining
Handout:Sentence combining

SPI 3002.1.4

Correct a run-on sentence by using a comma and coordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction, or semicolon.
Informative: Run-ons
Informative: Run-ons
Informative: Run-ons
Informative: Run-ons
Informative: Run-ons

SPI 3002.1.5

Use commas correctly with appositives and introductory words, phrases, or clauses
Informative: Commas
Informative: Commas
PowerPoint: Commas

SPI 3002.1.6

Using commas to set off non essential elements in a clause
Informative: Non essential elements
Informative: Using commas with non essential elements
Informative: Commas

SPI 3002.1.7

Correct a run-on sentence by using a comma and a coordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction, or a semicolon
Informative: Run-Ons
Informative: Run-Ons
Informative: Run-Ons

SPI 3002.1.8

Recognize correct subject-verb agreement with intervening elements.
Informative:Agreement
Informative:Agreement
Informative:Agreement

SPI 3002.1.9

Recognize a shift in either verb tense or point of view within a writing sample
Informative: Recognize shift in either verb tense or point of view
Quiz: Recognize shift in verb tense or point of view
Power Point: Shift in tense

SPI 3002.1.10

Select correct pronoun usage in a sentence(e.g. with compound elements such as between you and me , or following than or as)
Informative: Pronoun usage
Informative: Pronoun usage
Informative: Pronoun usage

SPI 3002.1.11

Select correct pronoun antecedent agreement using collective nouns or indefinite pronouns
Handout: Collective Nouns
Handout: Pronoun antecedent agreement
Handout: Pronoun

SPI 3002.1.12

Recognize the correct placement of end marks and other marks of punctuation with quotation marks used in dialogue
Interactive Activity: Quotation Marks
Informative: Quotation Marks
Informative: Quotation Marks

SPI 3002.1.13

SPI 3002.1.14

Use context clues and/or knowledge of roots, affixes, and cognates to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
Games: Context clues, roots, etc.
Handout: Affix/Prefix Chart
Interactive Activity: Context clues, roots, etc.

SPI 3002.1.15

Proofread a written passage for errors in punctuation and/or capaitalization and/or spelling.
Informative: Errors
Informative: Errors
Informative: Errors

SPI 3002.1.16

Use a sample reference source to determine aspects of a given word (e.g. spelling, parts of speech, definition, cognates, etymology, synonyms).
Games: Various Word
Interactive Activity: Etymology
Interactive Activity: Synonyms/Antonyms

SPI 3002.1.17

Identify commonly used foreign words and phrases
Informative: Foreign Words and Phrases
Game: Foreign Words and Phrases
Game: Foreign Words and Phrases

CLE 3002.2.1

Demonstrate critical listening skills essential for comprehension, evaluation, problem solving, and task completion.
Interactive: Critical listening
Interactive: Critical listening
Interactive: Critical listening

SPI 3002.2.1

Identify the thesis and main points of a challenging speech.
Informative: Points of a speech
Audio: Points of a speech
Handout: Accompanies previous audio

SPI 3002.2.2

Distinguish between a summary and a paraphrase.
Informative: Summary/Paraphrase
Worksheet: Summary/Paraphrase
Informative:Paraphrase vs. summary

SPI 3002.2.3

Distinguish between a critique and a summary.
Informative: Summary and critique
Informative: Summary
Informative: Summary

CLE 3002.2.4

Analyze the style and structure of a challenging speech.
Activity: Readers theatre
Informative: Speech
Lesson plan: Speech

SPI 3002.2.5

Identify rhetorical devices used in a challenging speech
Lesson Plan: Rhetorical devices
Handbook: Rhetorical devices
Activity: Rhetorical Device

SPI 3002.2.6

Determine the most effective methods of engaging an audience during an oral presentation
Informative: Engaging an audience
Informative: Engaging an audience
Lesson Plans and Activities: Engaging an audience

CLE 3002.2.7

Participate in work teams and group discussions.
Informative: Discussions
Informative: Discussions
Informative: Discussions

SPI 3002.2.7

Select the most appropriate strategies for participating productively in a team
Informative: Teams
Lesson Plan: Teams
Informative: Teams

SPI 3002.3.1

Proofread a passage for correct punctuation, mechanics, and usage.
Review: Proofreading
Lesson plans: Proofreading
Activity: Punctuation

SPI 3002.3.2

Choose the most effective order of sentences in a paragraph.
Lesson plans/Informative: Sentence order
Assessment: Sentence order
Lesson plans/Informative: Language

SPI 3002.3.3

Choose the transitional device that appropriately connects sentences or paragraphs within a writing sample.
Informative: Transitions
Informative: Transitions
Informative: Transitions

SPI 3002.3.4

Select a vivid word to strengthen a description.
Informative: Vivid Words
Activity: Vivid Words
Activity: Vivid Words

SPI 3002.3.5

Demonstrate the ability to combine a set of simple sentences into a longer, more interesting sentence.
Lesson plan: Combining sentences
Informative: Combining sentences
Lesson plan: Combining sentences

SPI 3002.3.6

Determine the most effective placement of information using a prewriting graphic organizer
Printable: Graphic organizer
Printable: Graphic Organizer
Printables: Graphic Organizer

SPI 3002.3.7

Select the thesis statement in a writing sample or passage.
Quiz: Thesis
Handout: Thesis
Informative: Thesis

SPI 3002.3.8

Evaluate the relevance of supporting sentences by deleting an irrelevant sentence in a passage.
Lesson plans/Informative: Language
Practices: Relevance
Practices: Relevance

SPI 3002.3.9

Rearrange the order of supporting paragraphs within a writing sample given a specified organizational pattern.
Lesson plans: Paragraph order
Lesson plans: Paragraph order
Lesson plans: Paragraph order

SPI 3002.3.10

Identify a statement that reveals the writer's attitude
Lesson plan: Romeo and Juliet
Activity: Attitude
Activity: Strategies

SPI 3002.3.11

Identify the targeted audience for a selected passage.
Lesson plans/Informative: Language
Lesson plans: Audience
Informative: Audience

SPI 3002.3.12

Determine the writer's purpose in a writing sample.
Informative: Purpose
Lesson plan: Purpose
Lesson plan: Purpose

SPI 3002.3.13

Identify sentences with nonparallel construction.
Informative: Construction
Informative: Construction
informative: Construction

SPI 3002.3.14

Select the proper format to convey a set of work-related information: effectively vary strategies and select a medium or format, arrange supporting ides, and craft diction and tone that anticipate the audience's needs
Informative: Work-related Info.
Handout: Work-related info.
Handout: Work-related info.

SPI 3002.3.15

Select the most precise word to provide clarity appropriate to audience and purpose.
Handout: Precise words
Activity: Precise words
Informative: Precise words

SPI 3002.3.16

Identify the mode in which a writing sample is written
Lesson Plan: Identify mode
Power Point: Identify mode

SPI 3002.4.1

Select the reserach topic with the highest degree of focus
Instructional: Selecting a research topic
Informative: Selecting a research topic
Informative: Selecting a research topic

SPI 3002.7.1

Draw an inference from a non-print medium
Informative: Non-print
Informative: Non-print
Lesson plan: Non-print

SPI 3002.7.2

Select the type of conflict represented in a non-print medium
Pre and Post Test: Select the type of conflict
Lesson Plan: Select type of conflict
Activity: www.eduplace.com/activity.conflict.html

SPI 3002.7.3

Choose a visual image that best reinforces a viewpoint.
Activity: Visual
Activity: Visual
Project: Blog

SPI 3002.7.4

Determine the impact of production elements on a message.
PowerPoint: Propaganda
PowerPoint: Persuasion
Activity/informative: Prouction elements

SPI 3002.7.7

Consider the treatment of a particular subject or event in two or more media.
Activity: Found poetry
Informative: Shakespeare
Activity: Romeo and Juliet

Reading

SPI 3002.5.2

Choose a logical word to complete an analogy
Handout: Analogy
Informative: Analogy
Activity: Analogy

SPI 3002.5.4

Analyze cause/effect relationship in text.
Graphic organizers: Cause/Effect
Mini-lesson: Cause/Effect
Essay topics/Examples: Cause/Effect

SPI 3002.5.5

Select the persuasive device (i.e. bandwagon, loaded words, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks, snob appeal, misuse of statistics)
PowerPoint: Persuasive techniques
Flashcards: Persuasion
Interactive: Persuasion

SPI 3002.5.7

Differentiate between the stated and implied evidence of a given argument.
Worksheet: Evidence
Lesson plan: Implied main idea
Lesson plan: Main idea

SPI 3002.5.9

Identify a statement that reveals a writer's biases, stereotypes, assumptions, or values within a writing sample
Informative: Author's bias
Lesson Plan: Author's bias

SPI 3002.8.1

Identify and analyze examples of idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or pun in poetry or prose
Interactive: Idioms
Lesson plan: Shakespeare and puns
Activity: Hyperbole