English Department
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The Visitation Junior High English Language Arts Department designs our curriculum to acquaint students with literature, writing skills and vocabulary usage in preparation for the rigors of high school English. Our curriculum surveys various genre of literature including short story, drama, essay, poetry and the novel. The vocabulary studied prepares students for the HSPT, ISEE, and SAT. Along with the curriculum, the process of Evidence Based Writing will be highly emphasized. These subjects will build a strong foundation and prepare each student for high school. The units in the Junior High ELA Department are designed with each student in mind so that students may learn to be thoughtful and analytical readers, writers, and speakers. Finally, the curriculum also provides each student with the opportunity to master the Common Core State Standards in reading, writing, listening and speaking, and language.
6th Grade Texts Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (summer reading) Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli A Christmas Carol (abridged) by Charles Dickens The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood 7th Grade Texts And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (summer reading) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Saving Mr Terupt by Rob Buyea The Giver by Lois Lowry Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Poetry Unit 8th Grade Texts The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (summer reading) The Pearl by John Steinbeck The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Poetry Unit Short Story Unit Night by Elie Wiesel The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien |
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