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- @8fe6d to 81010)
