Sixth Grade:

  1. Learn note taking  and interview skills.
  2. Learn research skills:  creating a bibliography, and footnotes.
  3. Learn how to search for information from the following sources:  catalogs, hollyes to periodicals, magazines, newspapers, the internet, and primary sources.

  1. Seventh Grade:
  1. Write in a variety of forms:  essays, narratives, letters, stories.
  2. Write for a variety of purposes:  persuasion, entertainment, and informational.
  3. Use different types of organizational tools which break up strict chronology:  flashbacks, starting at the end of the story, etc.
  4. Essays include thesis statement, transitions, and conclusion.
  5. Write compare/contrast essay.
  6. Stories should include descriptive detail, dialogue, setting, developed characters, and conflict resolution.
Eighth Grade:
  1. Utilize elements like tone, style, and voice.
Ninth Grade:
  1. Anticipate potential readers' biases, expectations, and confusion.
  2. Use logical appeals to emotion, beliefs, ethics, and personal stories.
  3. Use all the appropriate documentation, bibliographies, footnotes, etc included in style manuals.
Where are the standards for tenth through twelfth grade?  I didn't find any significantly different standards for these grades.  These last three years are for mastering and polishing the skills introduced in previous years.

While you may introduce a concept one year, your child  has several years to master that skill.

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