Curriculum Index Curriculum Objectives Curriculum Outline Student Pages Virginia SOLs Lesson 1: Preparing For Your Journey Lesson 2: Meet Your Ship Lesson 3: Plotting The Course Lesson 4: Adding It Up Lesson 5: Environmental Impact Bibliography

VIRGINIA ENGLISH SOLS COVERED

Oral Language

  • 4.1 The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings.
    • b) Contribute to group discussions.
    • d) Use evidence to support opinions.
  • 5.1 The student will listen, draw conclusions, and share responses in subject-related group learning activities.
    • a) Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas.

Reading

  • 4.5 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction.
    • d) Make simple inferences, using information from texts.
    • e) Draw conclusions, using information from texts.
    • f) Summarize content of selection, identifying important ideas and providing details for each important idea.
    • g) Describe relationship between content and previously learned concepts or skills.
    • i) Identify new information gained from reading.
  • 4.6 The student will demonstrate comprehension of information resources to research a topic.
    • a) Construct questions about a topic.
    • b) Collect information, using the resources of the media center, including online, print, and media resources.
    • c) Evaluate and synthesize information.
  • 5.6 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction.
    • c) Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.
  • 5.7 The student will demonstrate comprehension of information from a variety of print resources.
    • a) Develop notes that include important concepts, summaries, and identification of information sources.
    • b) Organize information on charts, maps, and graphs.
  • 7.7 The student will apply knowledge of appropriate reference materials.
    • a) Use print and electronic sources to locate information in books and articles.
    • b) Use graphic organizers to organize information.
    • c) Synthesize information from multiple sources.
    • d) Credit primary and secondary sources.
  • 8.6 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze a variety of informational sources.
    • e) Read and follow instructions to complete an assigned task.
    • g) Evaluate and synthesize information to apply in written and oral presentations.
    • h) Draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information.
  • 9.4 The student will read and analyze a variety of informational materials (manuals, textbooks, business letters, newspapers, brochures, reports, catalogs) and nonfiction materials, including journals, essays, speeches, biographies, and autobiographies.
    • b) Evaluate clarity and accuracy of information.
    • c) Synthesize information from sources and apply it in written and oral presentations.
    • d) Identify questions not answered by a selected text.
    • e) Extend general and specialized vocabulary through speaking, reading, and writing.
    • f) Read and follow instructions to complete an assigned project or task.

Writing

  • 3.10 The student will write stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports across all content areas.
    • a) Use a variety of planning strategies.
    • b) Organize information according to the type of writing.
    • d) Revise writing for specific vocabulary and information.
    • e) Use available technology.
  • 4.7 The student will write effective narratives, poems, and explanations.
    • a) Focus on one aspect of a topic.
    • b) Develop a plan for writing.
    • c) Organize writing to convey a central idea.
    • d) Write several related paragraphs on the same topic.
    • e) Utilize elements of style, including word choice and sentence variation.
    • g) Use available technology.
  • 5.8 The student will write for a variety of purposes: to describe, to inform, to entertain, and to explain.
    • b) Organize information.
    • d) Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to create tone and voice.
    • e) Vary sentence structure.
    • f) Revise writing for clarity.
    • g) Use available technology to access information.
  • 6.6 The student will write narratives, descriptions, and explanations.
    • a) Use a variety of planning strategies to generate and organize ideas.
    • b) Establish central idea, organization, elaboration, and unity.
    • c) Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.
    • d) Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences.
    • e) Revise writing for clarity.
  • 7.8 The student will develop narrative, expository, and persuasive writing.
    • a) Apply knowledge of prewriting strategies.
    • b) Elaborate the central idea in an organized manner.
    • c) Choose vocabulary and information that will create voice and tone.
    • d) Use clauses and phrases to vary sentences.
    • e) Revise writing for clarity and effect.
    • f) Use a word processor to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish selected writings.
  • 8.7 The student will write in a variety of forms, including narrative, expository, persuasive, and informational.
    • a) Use prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas.
    • b) Organize details to elaborate the central idea.
    • c) Select specific vocabulary and information.
    • d) Revise writing for word choice, sentence variety, and transitions among paragraphs.
    • e) Use available technology.
  • 9.6 The student will develop narrative, expository, and informational writings to inform, explain, analyze, or entertain.
    • a) Generate, gather, and organize ideas for writing.
    • b) Plan and organize writing to address a specific audience and purpose.
    • c) Communicate clearly the purpose of the writing.
    • d) Write clear, varied sentences.
    • e) Use specific vocabulary and information.
    • f) Arrange paragraphs into a logical progression.
  • 10.7 The student will develop a variety of writing, with an emphasis on exposition.
    • a) Generate, gather, plan, and organize ideas for writing.
    • b) Elaborate ideas clearly through word choice and vivid description.
    • c) Write clear, varied sentences.
    • d) Organize ideas into a logical sequence.
    • e) Revise writing for clarity of content and presentation.
    • f) Proofread and prepare final product for intended audience and purpose.
  • 10.10 The student will use writing to interpret, analyze, and evaluate ideas.
    • a) Explain concepts contained in literature and other disciplines.
    • b) Translate concepts into simpler or more easily understood terms.
  • 12.7 The student will develop expository and informational writings.
    • a) Generate, gather, and organize ideas for writing.
    • b) Consider audience and purpose when planning for writing.
    • c) Write analytically about literary, informational, and visual materials.
    • d) Elaborate ideas clearly and accurately.
    • e) Revise writing for depth of information and technique of presentation.
    • f) Apply grammatical conventions to edit writing for correct use of language, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
    • g) Proofread final copy and prepare document for publication or submission.

Research

  • 9.8 The student will credit the sources of both quoted and paraphrased ideas.
    • b) Distinguish one's own ideas from information created or discovered by others.
  • 9.9 The student will use print, electronic databases, and online resources to access information.
    • b) Narrow the focus of a search.
    • c) Scan and select resources.
    • d) Distinguish between reliable and questionable Internet sources and apply responsible use of technology.
  • 10.11 The student will collect, evaluate, organize, and present information.
    • a) Organize information from a variety of sources.
    • b) Develop the central idea or focus.
    • c) Verify the accuracy and usefulness of information.
    • d) Credit sources for both quoted and paraphrased ideas.
    • e) Present information in an appropriate format, such as an oral presentation, written report, or visual product.
    • f) Use technology to access information, organize ideas, and develop writing.

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