Reading Seminar Class Overview
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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January 15th - Blue Cause and effect Block 1 Jamestown Vocabulary Review |
January 16th Gold Cause and Effect quiz Block 13- Jamestown Vocabulary Review
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January 17th Blue Upfront article and questions Vocabulary Quiz |
January 18th Gold Upfront article and discussion questions Vocabulary Quiz |
January 21st
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January 22. Blue Plastic article Vocabulary 10A and B |
January 23. Gold Plastic Article Vocabulary A and B |
January 24th Blue Fix-it Strategies Vocabulary C and D |
January 25th Gold Fix-it strategies Vocabulary C and D |
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