Welcome to English IV

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Welcome to English IV

• Mrs. Aebischers Class

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• What will we learn this year?

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Reading

• Develop and apply skills and strategies to the
  reading process
• Develop and apply skills and strategies to
  comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of
  nonfiction from a variety of cultures and times
• Develop and apply skills and strategies to
  comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of
  fiction from a variety of cultures and times
• Develop and apply skills and strategies to
  comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of poetry
  from a variety of cultures and times
• Develop and apply skills and strategies to
  comprehend, analyze, and evaluate works of drama
  from a variety of cultures and times

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Writing

• Compose various forms and types of well-developed
  texts using a writing process
• Develop clear, focused ideas in their writing and
  support their ideas with specific details
• Compose well-organized text with varied sentence
  structure
• Compose text that clearly demonstrates voice and
  appropriate word choice
• Use conventions appropriately when composing text

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Vocabulary

• Develop and apply the skills necessary to
  increase vocabulary, determine the meaning of
  unknown words in context, and determine word
  choice when writing

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Information Literacy

• Develop and apply effective research process
  skills to gather, analyze, and evaluate
  information

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Listening and Speaking

• Develop and apply effective listening and
  speaking skills and strategies

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• What will we do this year?

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Reading

• Fallen Angels, Macbeth, other novels
• Poetry
• Nonfiction articles

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Writing

• Narrative, descriptive, expository, and
  persuasive texts
• Constructed responses
• Essays (including college scholarship,
  formal research, and literary analysis)
• Journals
• Summaries

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Listening and Speaking

• Presentations to the class, both formally and
  informally

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Our Goal

• Our goal this year is for all students to be
  successful.
• This does not mean that everyone will earn an
  A, but everyone will have the opportunity to
  reach his or her personal level of success.

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How will we reach our goal?

• EFFORT
• We all must put forth our best effort, even
  when the work is tough, in order to achieve
  success!
• I cannot help you be successful if you do not
  help yourself by asking for help when needed and
  by putting forth effort in class and at home.