4th Edition LANGUAGE! Overview

® ®• LANGUAGE! students alternate between writingcompositions based on the text that they have readand writing from prompts that elicit their imaginationand their personal experiences.Writing exercises encompass:• Expository Paragraphs• Personal Narratives• Expository Opinion Essays• Literary Analysis Essays• Persuasive EssaysRevised ParagraphT h Benefits e of ExerciseRegular exercise helps people in two importantways. First, it improves people’s health. It makesthe h e a r , lungs, t bones, and muscles stro n g e r. Itkeeps people at a healthy weig ht. Exercise is alsogood for the mind. It makes people feel betterabout themselves. It calms them down when theyfeel a n g r yor stressed . W h e people n get exercise,t h e ystay fit, healthy, and happy.Idea s and Content : added another explanationOrganization : added a transitionVoice : used a more formal tone of voice for a school paperWord Choice : used more specific wordsSentence Fluency : wrote a longer sentenceConventions : corrected spelling, punctuation, and grammar errorsSTEP 6Needs correct spine size64 Unit 32 • Go For Gold“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” LiteraryAnalysisI like a good action story that makes me think. “TheTreasure of the Sierra Madre” by B. Traven is that kind ofstory. Traven tells the story of three men who dig for goldin the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. Dobbs andCurtin don’t know how to prospect for gold. They dependon Howard, a long time gold prospector, to lead them intothe mountains and teach them the process of panning andsifting for gold. The men find gold, but then the troublebegins. The author uses the character of Dobbs to show howthe greed for gold can change a good man into a bad one.Three scenes—the discussion of dividing the gold, the nightin the tent, and the gila monster incident—show how thehunt for gold turns Dobbs from a normal person to a possiblemurderer.At the beginning of the story, Dobbs seems to be a normalperson. He puts up money for the trip, and he is gratefulto Howard for showing him and Curtin how to prospectfor gold. “My hat’s off to you,” he tells Howard. “I’d hate tothink what would have happened to Curtin and me if we’dgone it alone.” As the gold starts rolling in, however, Dobbs’sgreed for it grows. He wants to go for seventy-five thousanddollars worth, much more than either of his partners wants.As his hunger for gold increases, so does Dobbs’s distrust in®5101520“I’ve dug in Alaska and in Canada and Colorado. I waswith the crowd in British Honduras where I made my fareback home and almost enough over to cure me of the [gold]fever I’d caught. I’ve dug in California and Australia, allover the world practically. Yeah, I know what gold does tomen’s souls. . . . Aw, as long as there’s no find, the noblebrotherhood will last, but when the piles of gold begin togrow, that’s when the trouble starts.”—Howard, the oldprospector from The Treasure of the Sierra MadreFor its dramatic portrayal of the pitfalls of human greed,The Treasure of the Sierra Madre endures as one of themost popular Hollywood movies ever made. The screenplay,written by John Huston, was based upon a 1936 novel byB. Traven, a mysterious and elusive individual who wrotenovels under an assumed name and who lived incognito inMexico in the 1920s. John Huston, a well-known Americanfilm director, actor, and screenwriter, won an AcademyAward in 1948 for his screenplay version of the novel.This classic film tells a gripping story of three men—Dobbs, Curtin, and Howard—who join forces to prospectfor gold in the mountain range known as the Sierra Madreof northeastern Mexico. Dobbs and Curtin have separatelytraveled to Mexico in search of an opportunity to make aThe Comprehensive Literacy CurriculumHandbook H67BookF BookFReadingWritingSpellingVocabularyGrammarSpeakingJane Fell Greene, Ed.D.Book F, Student Text(800) 547-6747 LANGUAGE! Overview 25