English+Language+Arts

At the last meeting, the following was decided by your department:
 * Kindergarten **
 * 1st Grade **
 * 2nd Grade **
 * 3rd Grade **
 * 4th Grade **
 * 5th Grade **
 * 6th Grade **


 * 7-12 words would be introduced weekly
 * you will investigate the CCSS for the vocabulary words
 * you will also use the HSCE and GLCE for finding words
 * it is also suggested by your Vocabulary facilitators that you utilize the Curriculum Crafter and Marzano's lists for locating words.

**6th grade ELA** 
 * article (a, an, the) || bias || broad generalizations ||
 * character web || character trait || chronology ||
 * clarity || climax/turning point || compound predicate/verb ||
 * compound sentence || compound subject/noun || conflict ||
 * conjunction || conventions || descriptive language ||
 * dialogue || dispute || effective lead ||
 * empathize || etiquette || exposition ||
 * fact v opinion || falling action || figure of speech ||
 * figurative language || first person pronoun || foreshadowing ||
 * gender || homonyms || homophones ||
 * independent clause || idioms || information source ||
 * interjection || key phrase || legendary ||
 * legibility || loaded words || logical argument ||
 * main character || major events || object pronouns ||
 * personal narrative || perspective || persuade ||
 * physical description || plot elements || policy ||
 * prompt || relevant details || report ||
 * rising action || run-on sentence || scenario ||
 * sentence fragment || short story || simple sentence ||
 * subordinating conjunction || .stress || tale ||
 * technology || 3 types of sentences || transition words ||
 * viewpoint ||  ||   ||

__**7th Grade ELA**__


 * adjective clause || adjective phrase || adverb clause ||
 * adverb phrase || anecdote || antecedent ||
 * argument || author's purpose || autobiography ||
 * ballad || blank verse || biography ||
 * body language || body of the text || chronological ||
 * clarify || compare/contrast || compelling ||
 * compound/complex sentence || contextual analysis || credibility ||
 * criticism || dialect || document (v) ||
 * documentary || enunciation || explicit/implicit ||
 * exposition || figurative/literal || flashback ||
 * footnote || foreshadowing || formal/informal language ||
 * free verse || generalization || greek/latin root ||
 * imagery || interpretation || jargon ||
 * line || memoir || metaphor ||
 * meter || narration || objectivity ||
 * opinion || perspective || persuasion ||
 * persuasive essay || publication date || point of view ||
 * pro and con || problem/solution || propaganda ||
 * recurring theme || reference source || repetition ||
 * research paper || restatement || rhythm ||
 * salutation || script || sentence fluency ||
 * simile || sonnet || stereotype ||
 * subordinate character || synthesize || target audience ||
 * text structure || thesis || transition ||
 * word origin ||  ||   ||

__**8th Grade ELA**__


 * 5Ws and H || active readers || antagonist ||
 * balance || bandwagon || character motivation ||
 * contemporary || content || critique ||
 * direct quote || editorial || feature article ||
 * flashback || foreshadowing || gerund ||
 * glittering generality || headline || historical context ||
 * hyperbole || hyperbole || infinitive ||
 * inverted pyramid || lead sentence || limited third person ||
 * media || news article || nonfiction/fiction ||
 * omniscient third person || onomatopoeia || protagonist ||
 * paraphrased quote || participle || parenthetical citation ||
 * plagiarism || primary source || prepositional phrases ||
 * reliability || sarcasm || sentence structure ||
 * secondary source || social context || snob appeal ||
 * strategic readers || technical information || testimonial ||
 * types of irony || works cited page || allegory ||
 * allusion || symbol || alliteration ||
 * euphemism || appositive || mood ||
 * tone || genre || inference ||


 * 9th Grade**

2nd person, 3rd person- -limited and omniscient) || protagonist || Slant Rhyme) || setting || simile ||
 * alliteration || allusion || antagonist ||
 * character development || climax || conflict (internal/external)  ||
 * consensus || context || counter argument ||
 * couplet || epic || exposition ||
 * falling action || figurative language || foreshadowing ||
 * hyperbole || imagery || irony ||
 * metaphor || mood || onomatopoeia ||
 * plot || point of view (1st peson,
 * repetition || resolution || rising action ||
 * rhyme (end rhyme, Internal rhyming,
 * soliloquy || style || theme ||
 * thesis || tone || tragedy ||
 * personification ||  ||   ||
 * 10th Grade**


 * bias || Connotative meaning || Denotative meaning ||
 * censorship || consonance  || credible ||
 * ethics || explicit || implicit ||
 * mythology || Parody || propoganda ||
 * satire || stereotypes || symbolism ||
 * plagarism || pun || voice ||


 * 11th Grade**


 * aphorism || argument || synthesize ||
 * Ethos, logos. pathos || foil || refute ||
 * status quo || stream of consciousness || colloquialism ||
 * rhetorical question ||  || subplot ||
 * euphemism || paradox || pseudonym ||
 * rhyme scheme ||  ||   ||
 * 12th Grade**


 * abstract || cliché || analogy ||
 * archetype || allegory || ambiance ||
 * euphemism || jargon || denoument ||
 * motif || style || literary merit ||
 * annotated bibliography || artifact || proposal ||
 * rhetorical device || foot || slang ||
 * stylistic element || synopsis || literary analysis ||
 * assonance || consonance || cover letter ||
 * resume || lyric poem || critique ||
 * meter || sonnet || cannon ||
 * blank/free verse ||  ||   ||