Writing an Engaging Story with Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
Write a Short Story: Practice 1
Given a prompt, you will write a short story.
Analyze Various Texts with Similar Themes (English I Reading)
You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.
Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words (English I Reading)
You will become acquainted with the origins and meanings of foreign words and phrases frequently used in English texts.
Reference Materials (e.g., dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries) Printed and Electronic (English I Reading)
You will learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Applying Word Study Strategies (English I Reading)
You will apply what you learned in previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve your fluency and comprehension.
Capitalization (English I Writing)
Students demonstrate their knowledge of capitalization rules in a proofreading exercise.
Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Students will learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Punctuation (English I Writing)
You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation.
Strategies for Editing: Practice 1 (English I Writing)
You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2 (English I Writing)
You will practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.
Parallelism of Details: Practice 3
You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.
Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Gravitational Force
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the gravitational attraction between objects of different masses at different distances. IPC TEKS (4)(F)
Make Connections Between and Across Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)
You will learn how to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.
Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
You will mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)
You will be able to recognize dramatic irony and explain how it functions in a play.
Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
Spelling (English I Writing)
You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct spelling.
Analyze Factual, Quantitative, or Technical Data in Multiple Graphical Sources (English I Reading)
You will be able to analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.