With both engaging literature selections and carefully sequenced writing lessons, this course builds students’ writing and reading skills. It will strengthen their critical thinking and analysis — all skills that are essential to effective performance on standardized assessments. Carefully designed daily lesson plans include detailed teacher instructions to reduce teacher preparation time, yet include a variety of student-centered activities that support classroom engagement. Correlated to state standards, this course is self-contained, with a student notebook that includes of all the short readings as well as writing activities. An easy-to-use pacing guide ensures completion of all required content. Teachers receive a condensed vignette of each of the short reading assignments and a comprehensive analysis of each of the six major works to reduce teacher preparation.

Table of Contents:

1. Reading and Writing
2. The Human Comedy
3. Catcher in the Rye
4. Summer

5. Our Town
6. Hard Times
7. Henry IV, Part 1
8. Year-End Project

Course materials cover a full year with daily support for all aspects of instruction. The Teacher’s Edition includes a syllabus; correlation to standards; pacing guide; daily lesson plans; teacher’s workbook; CD with daily class notes in PDF (for use as color overheads) and/or PowerPoints; complete assessments. Classroom sets includes 25 Student Workbooks and Teacher Edition with CD. After purchase of Teacher’s Edition, additional Student Workbooks are available for individual purchase. Click here for details.