MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH PROGRAM

Michigan Islamic Academy 2013-2014

Interpret figurative

language, words,

and phrases

READING GOALS

READING GOALS• Learn strategies for reading informational

text, taking notes, and studying

• Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences

• Summarize the key supporting details and ideas and incorporate Islamic perspective

• Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text through an Islamic lens

READING GOALS

• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development in light of Quran and hadith

• Analyze the structure of text including sentence structure, word choice, tone, and syntax

• Assess how point of view shapes content and style

• Analyze how two or more text address the same theme and evaluate diverse media formats

• Develop and strengthen writing by brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, proofreading and publishing

• Utilize technology in the writing process

• Conduct short focused research projects by gathering relevant information as well as more prolonged ones with focused questions to organize writing

WRITING GOALS

PERFECTING WRITING TO PROMOTE DAWAH

Create brochures,

multimedia presentations

and papers that introduce

others to Islam

• Write arguments to support a thesis statement using valid reading, quotations from text, and critical analysis

• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas clearly and accurately

• Write narrative pieces to develop real or imagined experiences using details and correct sequencing

WRITING GOALS

LANGUAGE GOALS• Recognize and correct

inappropriate shifts in pronoun

• Explain the function of phrases and clauses

• Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas

• Review parts of speech

LANGUAGE GOALS

• Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives)

• Formulate and use verbs in the active and passive voice

• Utilize verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood

• Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood

• Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers

SPEAKING & LISTENING

GOALS

• Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats.

• Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims

• Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner

• Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points

SPEAKING & LISTENING GOALS• Come to discussions prepared.

• Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed

• Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations

• Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views

Speaking for a variety of occasions:

1) Public speaking

2) Collaboration

3) Engaging in debates

4) Conveying Ideas

5) Promoting Dawah

ACTIVE LISTENING UNDERSTANDING

ANALYZINGIMPLEMENTING