TAKS+Objectives


 * Objective 1 = basic understanding of texts. **
 * Understanding main idea
 * Using Context Clues to find word meanings
 * Ability to summarize
 * Identifying Supporting Details
 * Objective 2 = understand the effects of literary elements in texts. **
 * Knowing and understanding literary terms
 * Analyzing characters
 * Analyzing plot, conflict, and resolution
 * Recognizing theme
 * Connecting Literature to History
 * Objective 3 = ability to analyze and evaluate texts and visual representations. **
 * Analyzing text structures
 * Making inferences, drawing conclusions, and making predictions
 * Analyzing across texts
 * Identifying author’s purpose
 * Author’s craft
 * Credibility of information sources
 * Persuasion in media
 * Understanding purpose of media and finding main point of media message
 * Objective 4 and 5 = produce an effective composition that demonstrates proper conventions including: spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar usage, and sentence structure. **
 * Rough Draft
 * Editing Draft to correct mistakes, and to add sensory details and/or figurative language.
 * Final Copy
 * Objective 6 = ability to proofread to improve clarity and effectiveness of writing. **
 * Organization (transitions, supporting sentences, sequence/progression)
 * Sentence Structure (sentences, fragments, run-ons, awkward, redundancy, combining)
 * Standard uses of English (subject-verb agreement, tense, pronoun-antecedent agreement, clear pronoun reference, double indicators, common mistakes, informal language, adjectives vs adverbs)
 * Punctuation (commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, quotation marks)
 * Capitalization
 * Spelling