Transcript: Language Arts 5 (2 of 2): Course Introduction

Course Objectives:

• Determine a stated or implied theme in a story or drama and explain how it is developed.
• Read stories, dramas, and poems for purpose and understanding with accuracy, with expression, and at a good rate.
• Explain structure, such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions, in a drama.
• Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, and events in a story or drama by using text details.
• Analyze how multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, and beauty of a text.
• Identify characteristics of folktales, myths, and multimodal texts.
• Explain how paragraphs, scenes, and stanzas fit together to provide structure in a story, drama, or poem.
• Make connections between a story or text and society, personal experiences, and ideas in other stories or texts.
• Analyze how text structure contributes to the author's purpose in a story, drama, or poem.
• Analyze how literary elements contribute to the plot of a story, drama, or poem.
• Describe how authors use figurative language to achieve a particular purpose in a story or poem.
• Compare and contrast two or more topics and themes in stories by using text details.
• Use dialogue, description, and pacing to develop and write a narrative.
• Write and organize a narrative that fits the task, purpose, and audience.
• Explain how figurative language and poetic elements work together in a poem.
• Read and determine the meaning of words and phrases using context, root words, affixes, reference works, figurative language, and word relationships.
• Use correct grammar and punctuation, follow usage rules, and spell correctly when writing.

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