ONE-CREDIT MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSE
English 6 analyzes informational texts, including biographies, primary documents, instructional documents, film reviews, and persuasive letters. Reading selections demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, central ideas and key details, and claims and arguments. Students also read and analyze literary texts from a number of genres, including a novel, excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, and plays. The course’s reading selections demonstrate ways to understand characters, plot, explicit and implicit information, theme, poetic techniques, and figurative language, among other ideas and concepts.
