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Geography
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Unit 1: Introduction to Geography
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Unit 2: North and South America
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Unit 3: Africa
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Unit 4: South and East Asia
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Language Arts
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Unit 1: Short Stories
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Unit 2: Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Unit 3: Poetry and Oral Tradition
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Unit 4: Drama
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Communication Skills
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Unit 1: Note-taking, Study Skills, and Presenting to Inform
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Unit 2: Short Story Writing
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Unit 3: Research and Newspaper
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Unit 4: Movie Study
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World History I
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Unit 1: Ancient Greece
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Unit 2: Ancient Rome
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Unit 3: Byzantine Empire, Russia, and Eastern Europe
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Unit 4: The Islamic World
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Unit 5: The Americas
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Unit 6: Kingdoms and City-States in Africa
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Unit 7: Dynasties and Kingdoms of East Asia
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Unit 8: The Middle Ages
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World History II
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Unit 1: Renaissance and Reformation
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Unit 2: The Age of Discovery
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Unit 3: European Monarchies
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Unit 4: The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment
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Unit 5: The French Revolution
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Essential Questions:
What is poetry?
What do good poets and writers do?
How can poetry and words make us look at the world differently?
What are Oral Tradition stories about? Why are they told?
Key Vocabulary:
poetry
poem
poet
narrative
lyric
sound devices
rhyme
rhythm
alliteration
onomatopoeia
repetition
figurative language
simile
metaphor
haiku
limerick
free verse
personification
oral tradition
myth
folk tales
stanza
line break
white space
Enduring Understandings:
Poetry is creative expressive art.
Poetry uses sound devices and figurative language to enhance meaning.
Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia and repetition are sound devices.
Similes, metaphors and personification are figurative language.
A narrative poem tells a story using plot, characters, dialogue, setting and theme. It tells a story more musically than prose fiction does.
A lyric poem ezpresses the thouhts and feelings of the poem's speaker, the one who says its words.
Limerick, Haiky, and Concrete poems are all different forms of poetry.
Oral Tradition are stories that are passed down by word of mouth. They reflect the beliefs, customs, and values of the culture that created them.