2nd Quarter “Essential Student Skills” Set 2015-16
Below is a list of skills that will be the focus of the entire 10th grade English team’s classes; bolded
terms are new for Q2. Each teacher will design and implement assessments to demonstrate and
monitor the following skill sets for every student:
Literary Skills:
 Annotating:
o Significance – how and why we do it
o making personal connections
o predicting
o inferring
o questioning
o identifying main and supporting ideas
o Symbols
o Marking figurative language
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Identifying Author’s Purpose & Style (diction, voice & syntax)
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Identify Literary & Poetic Terms:
o Characterization
o Conflict
o Setting
o Theme
o Symbolism
o Tone & Mood
o Point of View
o Imagery
o Simile
o Metaphor
o Personification
Writing Skills
 Plan/Organize Writing
 Thesis Statements
 Assert. Provide. Explain.
 Proper Paragraph Structure
 Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
 Subject/Verb Agreement
 Singulars/Plurals
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Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Connotation vs.
Denotation
Hyperbole
Irony (verbal,
situational,
dramatic)