| The is a small group class that provides instruction aligned with the California's Common Core State Standards in the following areas: |
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Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 4-5 novels, describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings), explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events, and refer to parts of stories when writing or speaking about a text to describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. |
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Writing: Students will write explanatory compositions to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. With guidance, students will introduce a topic, develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details, use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, therefore, since) to connect ideas within categories of information and provide a concluding statement. |
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Vocabulary: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, add to knowledge of prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, pre-, bi-, mis-, dis-) and suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful) and learn to use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words. |
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Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to identify subject-verb agreement, the correct use of pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and use past, present and future verb tenses properly. |
| Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given. |
| August 19–January 24 (23 weeks)* |
| *November 25–30 (Thanksgiving Recess) |
| *December 23–January 5 (Winter Recess) |
| is designed to provide instruction aligned with the California's Common Core State Standards including extensive emphasis on word problems and critical thinking involving estimation, statistics, probability, data analysis and geometry. Students will deepen their understanding of place value and their skill with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers. This group class involves lectures, weekly quizzes, a mid-term and final exam. Homework will be assigned. |
| August 19–January 24 (23 weeks)* |
| *September 2 (Labor Day Observed) |
| *October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day Observed) |
| *November 11 (Veteran's Day Observed) |
| *November 25–30 (Thanksgiving Recess) |
| *December 23–January 5 (Winter Recess) |
| *January 20 (Martin Luther King Day Observed) |
