Implementing District Standards (Part I - English) - Appendix B
| Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | |
| Strand | Topic Development in Terms of Purpose and Focus* | Organization, Unity, and Coherence* |
| CRS | Identify the focus of a simple essay applying that knowledge to add a sentence
that sharpens the focus or to determine if the essay has met a specified goal Delete material b/c it disturbs the flow and development of a paragraph Add a sentence to accomplish a fairly straightforward purpose such as illustrating a given statement |
Determine the need for conjunctive adverbs or phrases to create connections
between sentences (e.g. therefore, however) Add a sentence to introduce or conclude an essay or to provide a transition between paragraphs |
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*Throughout the year we will be working on Conventions of Punctuation - use punctuation to set off complex parenthetical phrases, recognize and delete unnecessary commas based on a careful reading of a complicated sentences (e.g., between elements of a compound subject or compound verb joined by and), use apostrophes to indicate simple possessive nouns, recognize inappropriate uses of colons and semicolons.
- Parts of speech
- Parts of a sentence
- Comma usage
- Punctuation, commas for items in a series
- Punctuation in quotations
- Appropriate comma usage for sentence flow
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