READING

• Understanding prefixes/suffixes, and context clues.
• Understand and demonstrate the usage of literary devices.
• Understand and Interpret abridged passages from classical Literature.
• Read for a variety of purposes such as gathering information, making decisions, fun and enjoyment.

WRITING

• Understand and demonstrate the process of writing.
• Organize individual paragraphs with topic sentences, relevant elaboration, and concluding sentences.
• Demonstrate conventions of Standard Written English.
• Use various modes to write compositions, including: compare and contrast essays and argumentative essays.