Reading Seminar Class Overview
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The Reading Seminar curriculum focuses on the acquisition of vocabulary and the mastery of basic reading skills as applied to nonfiction. Where traditional language arts classes focus primarily on the analysis of literary elements and comprehension of fictional novels and short stories, Reading Seminar classes focus on understanding and interpreting nonfiction materials such as essays, editorials, reviews, magazine and newspaper articles. The goal of the Reading Seminar class is to improve all students’ reading comprehension by reviewing and practicing individual reading skills such as establishing purpose, predicting, making inferences, evaluating and clarifying, finding main ideas, and using vocabulary in context. While reading, students will be learning to note: contrasts and contradictions, extreme or absolute language, numbers and statistics, quoted words, and text structure. Accelerated Reading Seminar will be working out of the 9th grade vocabulary book and will be reading material from a high school grade level. Grading: Tests = 40% Quizzes= 35% Homework/ Classwork = 25% Link to Upfront magazine: https://upfront.scholastic.com Password: Penbest8. See Below for Specific Class Information |
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October 24th Gold Upfront article Vocabulary 5 CD
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October 25th Blue Upfront article quiz and discussion Vocabulary Practice |
October 26th Gold Upfront article quiz and discussion Vocabulary Practice |
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October 29th Blue Debate death penalty Review for Unit 5 quiz |
October 30th Gold Debate death penalty Review for Unit 5 quiz |
October 31st ½ day White |
November 1st Blue Review Jamestown Vocabulary Quiz |
November 2nd Gold Review Jamestown Vocabulary Quiz |
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November 5th Blue Jamestown Test Vocabulary 6 AB |
November 6th Institute. Day |
November 7th Gold Jamestown Test Vocabulary 6 AB |
November 8th Blue Signpost: Extreme and Absolute Words Vocabulary 6 CD |
November 9th Gold Signpost: Extreme and Absolute Words Vocabulary 6 CD |
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Nov. 12th. Blue Contrasts and Contradictions Vocabulary 6 E |
November 13th Gold Contrasts and Contradictions Vocabulary 6 E |
November 14th Blue Contrasts and Contradictions Vocabulary Review |
November 15th Gold Contrasts and Contradictions Vocabulary Review |
November 16th ½ day White |