English 6

This course will help you meet these goals:

• Examine the main idea through the use of informational texts about identity.
• Analyze the literary elements of plot structure, character, setting, point of view, conflict, and theme in fiction.
• Explore the characteristics of personal narratives.
• Explore point of view in memoirs and practice writing a short memoir.
• Study different aspects of character such as types of characters, characterization, and character development.
• Explore the characteristics of autobiographies and how autobiographies document change.
• Examine a speech about social change.
• Evaluate arguments and claims in informational texts.
• Explore the characteristics of persuasive writing and practice writing persuasively.
• Explore conflict in literary nonfiction.
• Investigate examples of cause and effect in literary nonfiction.
• Identify and examine the element of conflict in different genres of literature.
• Investigate elements of essays that analyze literature.
• Explore methods for developing multimedia presentations.
• Explain the different structures, metrical patterns, and sound patterns in poetry.
• Examine different types of poems and their parts.
• Examine the elements of language, theme, and purpose in poetry.
• Explore methods for writing and revising poetry.
• Analyze how a topic is communicated through different forms of media.
• Identify techniques for developing a research paper.