Reading

Unit 1: Notice & Note Close Reading Strategies

Unit 2: Story Essentials & Symbols

• setting

• characters & characterization

• point of view

• plot

• theme

• symbols

Unit 3: Among the Hidden

Applying Notice & Note Strategies & Identifying Story Essentials and Symbols

Unit 4: Authors Craft

Figurative Language- similes, metaphors, personification, sensory language, irony

Unit 5: Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse

Applying Notice & Note Strategies & Identifying Story Essentials, Symbols, and Figurative Language

Unit 6: Nonfiction

Author's Purpose

Main Idea 

Supporting Details

Fact vs. Opinion

Bias

Pathos, Logos, Ethos

Context Clues

Connotation vs. Denotation