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Language Arts 1 is an integrated approach to reading, writing, listening, and speaking based on the Common Core State Standards. This course is a balanced, comprehensive program that develops skill in reading and writing, speaking and listening and fosters the appreciation of language arts. The course includes studies of various literary genres: short story, poetry, novel, drama, nonfiction and informational. The development of critical reading and writing skills is a major emphasis of this course. Students will continue to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the eighth grade but in a more refined and sophisticated form. This work continues in the second semester as Language Arts 2.

Language Arts 1, Semester 1:

*Essential Question: Is it necessary to struggle to be successful?

  • Anchor texts – a variety of short stories, poems, and non-fiction texts

*Essential Question: How do class, religion, language, and cultural stereotypes influence personal worldviews?

  • Anchor texts – a variety of short stories, poems, and non-fiction texts, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

Language Arts 2, Semester 2:

*Essential Question: Do we have a responsibility to those in trouble/ less powerful/ less fortunate?

  • Anchor text: George Orwell’s Animal Farm

*Essential Question: What factors ruin or threaten a relationship?

  • Anchor text: William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

REMIND:

  • LA 1/2- rmd.at/loughs (or text- @loughs to 81010)
  • Honors LA 1/2- rmd.at/8fe6d (or text- @hloughs to 81010)

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