Mr. Hollingshead's School of Rock

Fiction

Distinquish between theme and author's purpose

Evaluate quality of reading material and content based upon author's purpose

Interpret and analyze character traits and actions to make inferences about motives or events

Identify and analyze how author's use of words creates tone and mood

Fiction Reading

Various short stories

Independent novel reading

Literature circles

Script of A Christmas Carol

Non-fiction

Understand and explain written technical directions and procedures

Analyze features in informational texts (paragraphs, topic sentence, concluding sentence, introduction, conclusion, footnotes, index, bibliography)

We will also expand our vocabularies through reading, etymology and the use of dictionaries and other references

Non-fiction Reading

Various reference works: books, periodicals, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, databases, internet pages