Summer School English 1

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Course Documents

• Course Syllabus 
• Daily Plan 
• Calendar
• Course Book #s
• Email Form
• MLA Sample

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Literary Devices

• Literary Device Self Awareness Chart
• Week #1 Literary Devices
• Week #2 Literary Devices

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Weekly Vocabulary

• Vocabulary #1
• Vocabulary #2
• Vocabulary #3
• Vocabulary #4
• Vocabulary #5
• Vocabulary #6
• Vocabulary #7
• Vocabulary #8

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Week 1

Expository

• Expository Pre-Assessment 
• Expository 7 Skills Template

 

• A Guide to Reading
• Prompt 
• Rubric

 

• Expository Collaborative Presentation

​Texts

1. “I have a Dream" - MLK
2. “Pay-to-Learn Schemes Shortchange Kids” - Wendy Grolnick and Kathy Seal
3. “They Earn as They Learn” - Anne Stuhldreher​
4. “Listen Up: To Protect Your Hearing”

Week 2

Short Story

• Short Story Fiction Pre-Assessment
• Literary Device Self-Awareness Chart
• Literary Devices 1-15
• Literary Devices 16-30

 

• Literary Devices through Disney
• Literary Device Form 
• Literary Device Points of Confusion

 

• Fiction Short Story 7 Skills Template
• A Guide to Reading
• Prompt 
• Rubric

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• Collaborative Literary Device Analysis
• Collaborative Theme Analysis

​Texts

1. Two Kinds - Amy Tan 
2. ​The Utterly Perfect Murder - Ray Bradbury
3. The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant - W.D. Etherell
4. The Scarlet Ibis - James Hurst ​

Week 3

Poetry

• Poetry Pre-Assessment
• Poetic Device Self-Awareness Chart
• Poetic Devices
• Poetry 7 Skills Template


• A Guide to Reading
• Prompt 
• Rubric
• MLA Format Template

Texts​​

• Oranges - Gary Soto
• Choices - Nikki Giovanni​​
• Caged Bird - Maya Angelou
• Cloud - Sandra Cisneros
• Poetry - Pablo Neruda
• Grape Sherbert - Rita Dove

I am Poem

• Poem Template
• I am Poem Sample
• I am Poem Generator 
• Portrait Poem Sample
• Portrait Poem Generator
• I am Poem Presentation Template
• Portrait Poem Presentation Template
• Adobe Spark
• Recorded Poem Submission Form
• Poem Submission Responses

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Course Calendar