Write research essays, with attention to asking open-ended questions gathering relevant data through library and field research summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting accurately when taking notes defining a thesis (that is, a central proposition, a main idea) organizing with an outline integrating quotations from sources acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism preparing a bibliography

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Participate civilly and productively in group discussions

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Give a short speech to the class that is well-organized and well-supported.

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Demonstrate an ability to use standard pronunciation when speaking to large groups and in formal circumstances, such as a job interview

8.E.I.C.1

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Punctuation: Review punctuation based on sentence structure, including semi-colons commas with phrases and clauses

8.E.I.C.2

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Punctuation: Review other punctuation, including punctuation of quotations, dialogue, use of parentheses, hyphens, dashes, colons, italics, apostrophes

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Misplaced modifiers:Phrases and clauses go as near as possible to the word(s) they modify., Dangling modifiers, Two-way modifiers

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Parallelism: Parallelism is expressing ideas of equal importance using the same grammatical constructions

8.E.I.C.5

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Parallelism: Kinds of parallelism coordinate (using coordinating conjunctions and, but, or, nor, yet ) compared/contrasted correlative (both . . . and, either . . . or, neither . . . nor, not only . . . but also)

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Parallelism: Correcting faulty parallelism repeating words (articles, prepositions, pronouns) to maintain parallelism completing parallel construction revising sentences using parallel structure (for example, using all gerund phrases, or all noun clauses)

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Sentence variety: Review sentences classified by structure: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

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Sentence variety: Varying sentence length and structure to avoid monotony

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Sentence variety: Varying sentence openings

8.E.I.D.1

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Continue work with spelling, with special attention to commonly misspelled words, including: absence, counterfeit, guarantee, permanence, accommodate, courageous, hygiene, physician, analysis, curiosity, independence, prairie, attendance defendant laboratory sergeant, believe, dessert, library, souvenir, bureau, desperate, lightning, straight, capitol, dissatisfied, maintenance, technique, colonel, extraordinary, mileage, temporary, committee, fascinating, necessary, vacuum, correspondence, foreign, occurrence, whether

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Students should know the meaning of these Latin and Greek words that form common word roots and be able to give examples of English words that are based on them.

8.E.II.A.1

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Buffalo Bill’s (E.E. Cummings)

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Chicago (Carl Sandburg)

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas)

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How do I love thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (Robert Browning)

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I dwell in possibility; Apparently with no surprise (Emily Dickinson)

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree (William B. Yeats)

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Lucy Gray (or Solitude); My Heart Leaps Up (William Wordsworth)

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Mending Wall; The Gift Outright (Robert Frost)

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Mr. Flood’s Party (Edward Arlington Robinson)

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Polonius’s speech from Hamlet, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be . . .” (William Shakespeare)

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Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

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Sonnet 18, “Shall I compare thee. . .” (William Shakespeare)

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Spring and Fall (Gerald Manley Hopkins)

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A Supermarket in California (Allen Ginsberg

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Theme for English B (Langston Hughes)

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We Real Cool (Gwendolyn Brooks)

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Review: meter, iamb, rhyme scheme, free verse, couplet, onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance

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Review: forms: ballad, sonnet, lyric, narrative, limerick, haiku stanzas and refrains types of rhyme: end, internal, slant, eye metaphor and simile extended and mixed metaphors imagery, symbol, personification allusion

8.E.III.A.1

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“The Bet” (Anton Chekov)

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"Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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"God Sees the Truth But Waits” (Leo Tolstoy)

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“An Honest Thief” (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

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“The Open Boat” (Stephen Crane)

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Animal Farm (George Orwell)

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The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

8.E.III.C.1

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Review: plot and setting theme point of view in narration: omniscient narrator, unreliable narrator, third person limited, first person conflict: external and internal suspense and climax

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Characterization as delineated through a character’s thoughts, words, and deeds; through the narrator’s description; and through what other characters say flat and round; static and dynamic motivation protagonist and antagonist

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Tone and diction

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“Ask not what your country can do for you” (John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address)

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“I have a dream”; “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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"Death of a Pig” (E. B. White)