Fall+Semester++Language+Arts

= Fall Semester: Language Arts ~ "The Mosaic of Thought~ The ME in Memoirs" =

GOALS: READING PROCESSES:
=== 1. Describe and analyze the elements of character development. === === 2. Analyze the techniques authors use to describe characters, including narrator or other characters’ point of view; character’s own thoughts, words or actions. === ===3. Differentiate between the points of view in narrative text..=== === 4. Identify and compare subjective and objective points of view and how they affect the overall body of a work. ===

Writing Process:
=== 1. Prepare writing for publication that is legible, follows an appropriate format and uses techniques such as electronic resources and graphics ===

2. Use available technology to compose text.
=== 3. Prepare for publication (e.g. for sharing with others) writing that follows a format appropriate to the purpose, using such techniques as electronic resources, principles of design (eg, margins, tabs, spacing and columns) and graphics (e.g. drawings, charts, and graphs) to enhance the final product. ===

Unit/Theme/Focus~
=== 1. Students will read and analyze various memoirs to learn “life lessons” before creating an anthology or project based upon their own memoirs. === === 2. Students will explore the social and emotional challenges to being gifted. ===

Essential Knowledge And Questions~
=== What is a memoir and how is it different from an autobiography? ===

What is an anthology?
=== What does a writer need to know in order to write a good memoir? ===

How do I discover recurring themes to find a life lesson?
=== How does self-awareness help me to make choices and understand my role in the world? (Growth and Change) ===

Activities ~Options:
=== Share examples of memoirs; discuss the writing process of memoirs – small events with expanded writing === === Discuss life lessons and what memories one has relating to them. === === Read a memoir of choice, choose a life lesson that is shared in memoir to become the theme of their anthology === === Create anthology, scrapbook, or other project relating to students’ memoirs. ===

Voice threads
***END OF 1ST SEMESTER RESOURCES** *