Language Arts
‘The Arc of Story: Writing Realistic Fiction’: using notebooks to plan possible stories, developing believable characters, giving characters struggles and motivations, plotting with a story arc, planning and writing scenes, writing leads, developing the heart of the story, making revisions, writing powerful endings.
The Literary Essay: Writing about Fiction: studying characters, revising initial theories, elaborating on written ideas, testing a thesis, using precise words, citing textual evidence, writing beginnings and endings.
Bringing History to Life: Informational Writing: organizing notes, planning the structure of writing, researching, elaboration, transitions, note-taking, including text features, growing ideas.
Other Units: Informational Writing, Journalism, and Poetry