CAHSEE Prep Course Syllabus: ELA

Week 1
Topic
Intro Register Pre-Test

Week 2
Topic
Study Plans Review Assess Draft Revolutio n

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Policies and Procedures Revolution accounts set up Take Revolution Pre-Test

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Sit with students individually. Review their scores on Pre-Tests Assess areas of need Draft Personal Study Sheets While teacher does this, students work independently on Revolution.

Week 3
Topic
Big Picture Questions Conventio ns Check-In

Week 4
Topic
P915 Big Picture Questions Conventio ns Quiz

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Paper Cuttings passage: Main Idea and Whys it Say it? Sentence Questions, Pronouns

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Falconer passage: Main Idea of Paragraphs Contractions, Adjectives, Dicion Conventions P16-19 P109116 P117118

P10 2108 Check individual study progress

Week 5
Topic
Detail Questions Convention s Added Grammar Check-In

Week 6
Topic
P2128 P119 -122 Detail Questions Conventio ns Added Grammar Essay

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Environment passage: Connotation and Whats it Say? Verbs

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Call of the Wild passage: Big Picture vs. Detail? Commas, Punctuation P2938 P123129

Review sentence structure, define subject, verb, object, intro active/passive voice Check individual study progress

Review sentence structure, go more into active/passive voice Introduce CAHEE Essay format /Provide sample prompts P159162, P177184

Week 7
Topic
Literary Terms Figurative Language Check-In

Week 8
Topic
Poems Vocab Essay

Description
Review List of Terms P40 and Give Examples of Genres Teach Literal vs. Figurative Language: Metaphors, Similes, Irony, etc. Check individual study progress

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Ive Watched poem P43-46

Review poetry vocab including figurative language P159Work on sample essay 175

Week 9
Topic
Drama Conventions Added Grammar

Week 10
Topic
P4752 P131 -133 2 Passages Quiz Added Grammar

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The School Garden play. Go over Drama format. Quotation, Parallelism, Modifiers

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Pro Vitamin and Con Vitamin Writing Conventions: Underlined Parts Active/Passive Voice P55-63 P134137

Review sentence structure and verb agreement

CAHSEE Prep Course Syllabus: ELA

Check-In Meet with students and review their study progress. Essay Work on Sample Essay P177184

Week 11
Topic
Instruction al Passages Essay Revision Theme Check-In
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Week 12
Topic
P6472 P140149 Skimming & Scanning Essay Revision Quiz Prediction s

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How to Choose a Password Shower of Light and Asteroids

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Dances with Dolphins P73-82 The Abominable P150Snowman and Amelia 155 Earhart Appreciating the P156Forgotten 158 Review of the concept of predictions What will happen next questions.

Review of the concept of Theme Meet with students and review their study progress.

Week 13
Topic
Reading Comp Check-In

Week 14
Topic
P83100 Practice Test

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Welcome Packet and Day Away

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Work on practice CAHSEE

Meet with students and review their study progress.

Week 15
Topic
Practice Test Check-In

Week 16
Topic
Practice Test

Description
Work on practice CAHSEE Meet with students and review their study progress.

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Work on practice CAHSEE