Unit 1: Childhood
Essential Question: What are some of the challenges and triumphs of growing up?
Description: As you read through Unit 1, you will explore the pros and cons of growing up and what the word childhood means to you personally.
Vocabulary:
reflect, notable, contribute, recognize, memorize, squish, humming, twist, twirl, shushes, feathery, panel, encapsulation, speech balloon, entitled, enactment, compulsory, antagonism, refugee, distraught, respected, desperate, disgusted, clenched, stubborn, tenseness, autobiography, distraught, aggressive, gratitude, fathom, casserole, spry, limp, summit, agitate, airborne, raptor, reprimand, menace, mesa, description
Concepts/Skills:
summarize (8)
memoir (21)
prose (21)
stanzas (21)
point of view- first person and third person (21)
sensory language (22)
imagery (22)
onomatopoeia (22)
nonfiction narrative- elements (32,33)
sequence of events (34)
transitions- time-order, spatial-order (34,77)
voice- word choice, sentence structure, tone (35)
dialogue (36)
pacing (36)
precise language (36)
base words (42)
context clues (50,60,68)
synonym (similar) (56)
antonym (opposite) (56)
biographical writing- know the elements (57)
central idea (main idea) (66)
author’s purpose- persuade, inform, entertain, or author’s thoughts or feelings (66)
theme (74)
figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification (75)
compare-and-contrast essay (76)
Conventions:
Nouns: common, proper, possessive (23)
Pronoun Case: nominative (subjective), objective, possessive (48)
Reflexive and intensive pronouns (58)
Adverbs: (67)
Adjectives: (67)
Latin Root: -puls- (46), -spec- (65)
Anglo-Saxon Suffix: -ness (73)
