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The document outlines the goals for the middle school English program at Michigan Islamic Academy for the 2013-2014 school year. The program focuses on developing strong reading, writing, language, speaking, and listening skills through an Islamic lens. Key goals include learning to analyze texts from an Islamic perspective, strengthening writing abilities to promote dawah, and honing communication skills like public speaking and debate to convey Islamic ideas.
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- 1. MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH PROGRAM Michigan Islamic Academy 2013-2014
- 2. Interpret figurative language, words, and phrases READING GOALS
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. • 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
- 6. PERFECTING WRITING TO PROMOTE DAWAH Create brochures, multimedia presentations and papers that introduce others to Islam
- 7. • 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
- 8. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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
- 12. 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
- 13. Speaking for a variety of occasions: 1) Public speaking 2) Collaboration 3) Engaging in debates 4) Conveying Ideas 5) Promoting Dawah