Million Word Club Calendar (over curriculum map)

Month / September
17 days / October
23 days / November
19 days / December
15 days / January
14 days

Concepts Introduced: Reading/LiteraryAnalysis Chap.

/ Review: Active Reading Strategies and Literary Terms
(Elements of Plot, Conflict, Subplots, Parallel Episodes, Figurative Language: Idiom, Analogy, Metaphor and Simile) / Identify Significant Literary Devices that Define Style /

Poetry

(Identify Type, Analyze, and Recite) / Compare and Contrast Character Motivation and Reactions / Analyzing Universal Themes
Key Reading/Literary Analysis Standards /
  • Word Analysis, Fluency, Vocabulary 1.1.
  • Literary Response and Analysis 3.2
  • Vocab. 1.3
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  • Literary Response and Analysis 3.6
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Literary Response and Analysis 3.1
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text 3.3
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text 3.5
  • Vocab. 1.3

Concepts Introduced: Writing/Listening/ Speaking Chap. / Persuasive Writing
(Summer Reading Letter) / Narrative / Response to Literature / Response to Literature
(Character Analysis) / Response to Literature
(Theme)
Key Writing/ Listening/Speaking Standards /
  • Writing Applications 2.4
  • Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
/
  • Writing Applications 2.1
  • Writing Strategies 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.6
/
  • Writing Applications 2.2
  • Writing Strategies 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6
  • Listening and Speaking 2.5
/
  • Writing Applications 2.2
  • Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.6
/
  • Writing Applications 2.2
  • Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.6

Concepts Intro-duced: Language Conventions Chap. / History of Eng. Lang. and Spelling / Review: Parts of Speech / Parts of a Sentence
(also includes run-ons and fragments)
Recommendation: With pronouns – address pronoun antecedent agreement and subject/noun agreement. / The Clauses /

Sentence Structures

Key Conven-tions Standards /
  • Vocab. 1.2
  • Spelling 1.6
/
  • Grammar 1.4
/
  • Sentence Structure 1.1, 1.3
  • Grammar 1.4
/
  • Sentence Structure 1.1, 1.3
  • Grammar 1.4
/
  • Sentence Structure 1.1, 1.3
  • Grammar 1.4

Million Word Club Calendar (over curriculum map)

Month / Jan/February
23 days / March
11 days / April
22 days / May*
21 days / June
15 days

Concepts Introduced: Reading/LiteraryAnalysis Chap.

/ Analyze the Relevance of Setting to the Mood, Tone, and Meaning / Reading for Life /
Reading for Life /
Compare Original Text to Summary /
Person Behind the Text
Key Reading/Literary Analysis Standards /
  • Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level– Appropriate Text 3.2
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Reading Comprehension 2.1, 2.5, 2.6
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Reading Comprehension 2.1, 2.5, 2.6
  • Vocab. 1.3
/
  • Reading Comprehension 2.4
/
  • Reading Comprehension 2.7
  • Literary Response and Analysis 3.7

Concepts Introduced: Writing/Listening/ Speaking Chap. / Research
(Reading Informational Materials) / Writing Technical Documents / Writing Career- Related Documents /

Site Specific Culminating Writing Project

/

Listening and Speaking

Key Writing/ Listening/Speaking Standards /
  • Writing Application 2.3
  • Writing Strategy 1.1, 1.2, 1.3,1.4, 1.5, 1.6
  • Speaking Applications 2.3
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  • Writing Applications 2.6
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  • Writing Applications 2.5
/
  • Writing Strategies 1.0
  • Writing Applications 2.0
/
  • Speaking Applications 2.1-2.4

Concepts Intro-duced: Language Conventions Chap. / Agreement* and Writing Effective Sentences / Punctuation and
Capitalization
Recommendation: Emphasize comma, semicolon, apostrophe, colon, hyphen, dash, bracket. / Test Smarts
Recommendation: Tchrs. might want to introduce “Test Smarts” lessons at end of Jan. before Holt Midyear. / Review and Trouble Shooting / Review and Trouble Shooting (Cont.)
Key Conven-tions Standards /
  • Grammar 1.4
  • Sentence Structure 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
/
  • Sentence Structure 1.2, 1.3,
  • Grammar 1.4
  • Punctuation and Capitalization 1.5
/
  • Sentence Structure 1.3
  • Grammar 1.4
  • Punctuation and Cap. 1.5
  • Spelling 1.6
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  • Written and Oral Lang. Conventions 1.0
/
  • Written and Oral Lang. Conventions 1.0

* STAR Testing scheduled for 4/28-5/16