You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meanings of academic English words and in other content areas.

You will use your knowledge of cognates from other languages to help you understand unfamiliar words.

You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.

You will be able to distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning.

You will be able to recognize and explain the purpose of understatement and overstatement in a text.

You will be able to evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.

You will read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

You will be able to recognize how literary devices such as character foils can create complex characters in a short story.

You will be able to write a short story with interesting and believable characters.

You will be able to write a short story with a well-developed conflict and resolution.

You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.

Given a prompt, you will write a short story.

You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.

You will become acquainted with the origins and meanings of foreign words and phrases frequently used in English texts.

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.

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.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of capitalization rules in a proofreading exercise.

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.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation.

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.