You will learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.

You will learn how to make complex inferences in a play and use textual evidence to support your understanding.

You will learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.

You will learn how to use and understand the purpose of appositive phrases, and adverbial and adjectival phrases and clauses.

Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future.

You will learn to write a persuasive text that responds to the views of others by using evidence that differentiates between fact and opinion to support your viewpoint.

By using different organizational patterns as guides, you will learn how to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions while distinguishing factual claims.

You will learn strategies to help you edit your writing for correct punctuation.

You will learn how to use the elements of linear plot development to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved.

You will learn how to edit a draft for grammar, mechanics, and spelling using editing strategies.

You will learn strategies to help you revise your writing to achieve clarity, coherence, and transition in order to address purpose, audience, and genre.

You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.

You will learn how to write an expository text that synthesizes ideas.

You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.

You will learn how to identify and understand an author’s choice of point of view, including limited versus omniscient and subjective versus objective.

You will learn how the central characters’ qualities influence them and resolution of the central conflict.

You will learn how to use and understand the purpose of subordinating conjunctions.

You will learn how to use and understand the purpose of main clauses and subordinate clauses.