IXL skill plan | English 2 plan for the South Carolina End-of-Course Examination Program

Skill plan for the South Carolina End-of-Course Examination Program - English 2

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Reading
Reading Literary Text		Literary passages 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 Literary nonfiction passages 4. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 5. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Compare texts 6. Compare passages for tone Figurative language 7. Interpret figures of speech Theme 8. Determine the themes of short stories
Reading Literary Text
Literary passages 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 Literary nonfiction passages 4. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 5. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Compare texts 6. Compare passages for tone Figurative language 7. Interpret figures of speech Theme 8. Determine the themes of short stories

Reading Informational Text		Analyze texts 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Central idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Audience and purpose 4. Identify audience and purpose Trace an argument 5. Trace an argument: set 1 Persuasive strategies 6. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Text features 7. Identify text structures 8. Read graphic organizers
Reading Informational Text
Analyze texts 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Central idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Audience and purpose 4. Identify audience and purpose Trace an argument 5. Trace an argument: set 1 Persuasive strategies 6. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Text features 7. Identify text structures 8. Read graphic organizers

Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres		Connotation 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Etymologies 3. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Greek and Latin roots 4. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Vocabulary in context 5. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 6. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 7. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Reference materials 8. Use dictionary definitions 9. Use thesaurus entries
Reading (vocabulary) Across Genres
Connotation 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Figurative language 2. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Etymologies 3. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words Greek and Latin roots 4. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Vocabulary in context 5. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 6. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 7. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Reference materials 8. Use dictionary definitions 9. Use thesaurus entries

Writing
Writing		Edit and revise 1. Suggest appropriate revisions Grammar 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 4. Identify the verb mood 5. Rewrite the sentence in active voice Mechanics 6. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 7. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 8. Use dashes 9. Correct capitalization errors Descriptive details 10. Use personification
Writing
Edit and revise 1. Suggest appropriate revisions Grammar 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense 3. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 4. Identify the verb mood 5. Rewrite the sentence in active voice Mechanics 6. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 7. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review 8. Use dashes 9. Correct capitalization errors Descriptive details 10. Use personification

Research and Evaluating Ideas		Organization 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Organize information by topic Supporting evidence 3. Distinguish facts from opinions 4. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Logical fallacies 5. Classify logical fallacies
Research and Evaluating Ideas
Organization 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Organize information by topic Supporting evidence 3. Distinguish facts from opinions 4. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Logical fallacies 5. Classify logical fallacies

Text-Dependent Writing
Trait 1: To Persuade
Structure		1. Identify thesis statements 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Structure
1. Identify thesis statements 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

Development		1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
Development
1. Evaluate counterclaims 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim

Coherence		1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone 2. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
Coherence
1. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone 2. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
Trait 1: To Inform
Structure		1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Structure
1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Development		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Identify plagiarism
Development
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text 2. Identify plagiarism

Coherence		1. Which text is most formal? 2. Use words accurately and precisely
Coherence
1. Which text is most formal? 2. Use words accurately and precisely
Trait 2: Language Usage, Conventions, and Mechanics
Language usage		1. Use parallel structure 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Language usage
1. Use parallel structure 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Conventions		1. Commas: review 2. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
Conventions
1. Commas: review 2. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words

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