Curriculum Framework forBeyond Words
Content Goals:
Goal 1: To develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature, the students will be able to:
1. Describe what a selected literary passage means;
2. State an important idea of a reading;
3. Analyze similarities and differences in meaning among selected works of literature;
4. Create a title for a reading selection and provide a rationale to justify it.
Goal 2: To develop skills in identifying, analyzing, and using figurative language, the students
will be able to:
1. Recognize figurative expressions in text, including simile, metaphor, and personification;
2. Analyze a metaphorical expression for topic, object of comparison, and shared characteristics;
3. Use the forms of simile, metaphor, and personification to create figurative comparisons.
Goal 3: To develop persuasive writing skills, the students will be able to:
1. Write a persuasive paragraph that includes a claim (opinion), reasons, and conclusion;
2. Revise and edit a piece of writing.
Goal 4: To develop linguistic competency, the students will be able to:
1. Use context clues and analogies to discover word meanings;
2. Develop vocabulary skill commensurate with reading.
Process Goals:
To develop analogical reasoning skills, the student will be able to:
- Solve verbal analogy problems:
- Use analogies as support or understanding new words;
- Recognize and analyze figurative language that appears in analogy form.
Concept Goals:
To develop an understanding of the concept of change, especially changes related to language, the students will be able to:
- Understand that change is linked to time;
- Analyze changes to determine whether they are positive or negative, natural or human in cause, and orderly or random:
- Recognize the change process at work in a selection of literature.
- Demonstrate changes in language over time:
- Describe changes language can cause in human behavior and emotions.