Unit 1: Rites of Passage
Essential Question: What are some milestones on the path to growing up?
Description: As you read through Unit 1, you will read many examples of the experiences that are part of growing up.
Vocabulary:
attribute, gratifying, persistent, notable, inspire, wearily, fatigue, frail, sheepishly, bullheaded, narration, audio, contrast, synchronization(sync), immense, majestic, numerous, horizon, awakenings, beaming, patronized, obligations, psychological, setting, prefix, suffix, baffle, aloft, belfry, phantom, mast, spar, muster, barrack, tread, grenadiers, liberalism, sector, gouge, incision, laceration, brutal, politburo
Concepts/Skills:
summarize (8)
nonfiction narrative (know the elements p. 34)
symbolism (23)
author’s point of view- first person and third person (omniscient, limited p. 26, 73)
monologue (27)
comparison-and-contrast essay (32,33)
transitions (33, 37)
sequence of events (36)
precise language (38, 39)
context clues (44, 54)
author’s word choice- tone, word choice, connotation, denotation (51, 64)
synonym (same p. 54)
tone (57)
theme (63)
forms of Poetry- lyric poetry and narrative poetry (know the elements of each p.63)
base words (66)
author’s choices of elements: patterns- such as repetition or parallelism; structure- such as cause/effect, problem/solution; techniques-such as description or dialogue; ideas- such as the author’s main idea or claim
Conventions:
Verbs in Active and Passive Voice (25)
Verb Moods- indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, subjunctive (52, 74)
Suffixes: -ous (50)
Greek Roots: -psych- (72)
