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English Syllabus
Collection One: Plot and Suspense
Book Project: Mystery Puzzle
Textbook Stories:
"Duffy's Jacket"
"Rikki-tikki-tavi" by Rudyard Kiplang
"Three Skeleton Key" by George Toudouze
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling
Literary Terms: plot, basic situation, series of events, suspense, forshadowing, conflict, resolution
Collection Two: Characterization
Book Project: Autobiography/biography Time Capsule
"Girls"
"Mother and Daughter"
"Anteus"
"A Day's Wait"
"Stole Day"
Literary Terms: indirect characterization, direct characterization
Collection Three: Theme
Novel: The Giver by Lois Lowry
" The Highwayman"
Literary Terms: theme, symbol, metaphor, simile, alliteration, cause and effect
Collection Four: Point of View
Novel: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
"After Twenty Years"
Collection Six: Mythology and Folktales
PowerPoint Project: Heritage Folktales
Origins of Seasons"
"Orpheus the Great Musician"
"Flight of Icarus"
"King Midas and the Golden Touch"
Ulysses and Circe
Ulysses and the Cyclopes
Ulysses and his Return
Ulysses and the Sirens
"Oni and the Great Bird"
"The Crane Wife"
"Aschenputtel", "Yeh-Shen", and third Cinderella story
"Aunty Misery"
Literary Terms: motif, taboo, metamorphasis, origin myth
Collection Seven: Legends
" King Arthur: Sword and kthe Stone"
"Meriln and the Dragons"
"Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady"
Social Studies Syllabus
Ch. 1: Themes of Geography
Place, Location,Region, Movement, Human/Environment Interaction
Ch 2: Paleothic and Neolithic Periods
Ch. 3: Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian Cityy-State project
Ch. 4: Egypt
Egyptian Research paper
Ch 5: Indus River Valley and China
Chinese Contribution Project
Ch 6: Pheonicians
Ch 9: Minoneans and Myceneans
Ch 10-12: The Greeks
Greek Legacy Project
Ch. 13-15 The Romans
Roman Legacy Project
Ch. 24 & 26: Midieval Europe