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Speak// by Laurie Halse Anderson

THIS COURSE: Freshmen Reading/Language Arts is about **__LITERACY__** through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

1. Why become literate? 2. How is the reading process involved in literacy? 3. How is the writing process involved in literacy? 4. How is speaking and listening involved in literacy? 5. How is viewing involved in literacy?

Course Objectives:

Students will learn to devlop and exercise critical thinking through the Iowa Core Curriculum essential concepts and skill set, literacy, and 21st century skills: health literacy, technology literacy, and employability.

They will develop their knowledge of literary elements/device, vocabulary development, grammar, language usage, mechanics of writing, and the reading/writing process.

Using those concepts, they will respond in writings to literature and develop projects involving Gardner's multiple intelligences.

Important skills will be reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

Activities will include bell work; L to J; graphic organizers, Socratic seminars; pair/share; and partner, small and whole group work.

Course Standards: