Glad2Teach: Homework Packet April 26 - 30

California Standards Covered

Reading Standard 1.1: Identify idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry.
Reading Standard 1.2 Use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to understand vocabulary.
Reading Standard 1.3 Clarify word meanings through the use of definition, example, restatement, or contrast.
Reading Standard 2.6: Assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of the author's evidence to support claims and assertions, noting instances of bias and stereotyping.
Reading Standard 3.2: Identify events that advance the plot and determine how each event explains past or present actions or foreshadows future actions.
Reading Standard 3.3 Analyze characterization as delineated through a character's thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrattor's description; and the thoughts words, and actions of other characters.
Reading Standard 3.4: Identify and analyze recurring themes across works.
Reading Standard 3.6: Analyze a range of responses to a literary work and determine the extent to which the lieteray elements in the work shaped those responses.
Word Analysis Review: 1.6 Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words.
Writing Standard 1.1 Create an organizational structure that balances all aspects of the composition and uses effective transitions between sentences.
Writing Standard 1.2: Support all statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts, and statistics, an specific examples.
Writing Standard 1.6 Create documents by using word-processing skills.
Writing Standard 2.5 Write summaries of reading materials.
Written and oral English Conventions Standard 1.4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation marks, commas at end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e.g., pronoun reference).
Written and Oral English Language Conventions Standard 1.3 Identify all parts of speech and types and structure of sentences.
Written and Oral English Language Conventions Standard 1.6 Use correct capitalization.