William & Mary Language Arts Third Edition

This unit is organized around the study of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, and personification. The unit explores the idea that language can change the way we think about the world by creating new images and connections in our minds.

This unit gives students the task to decipher (figure out) the patterns, similarities, and differences of letters, word families and origins, sounds, and languages. The unit explores the amazing variety languages around the world, why human language is unique, and why it helps you think in different ways.   

This unit provides an opportunity for students to recognize that change affects people and their relationships, as well as the world around them.

This unit provides students the opportunity to be exposed to many ideas about explorers and exploration that may help them to think in a different way as they explore the world inside and around them.

This unit provides students with the reading selections and the instructional activities to intrigue and challenge them to think about time and its role in their lives.

This unit offers students the chance to compare and contrast their own lives with those of others. The unit explores social and historical issues by studying people, historical time periods and events, and students’ own lives. Novels, short stories, poetry, art, and music will be the avenues for addressing unit goals. Students will be given numerous opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

This unit provides students an opportunity to learn about the search through the ages for utopia and the struggles to grasp and maintain it on both personal and societal levels, while examining why ideas about utopia undergo change.