Standard 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). Standard 4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Standard 5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes. Standard 6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non print texts. Standard 7. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and non print texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.

Student must be able to read and write, use word processing application, be able to save work on a disk.*Essay criteria- Essay must be word processed, saved in a disk, free of spelling and grammar errors.

*Essay criteria- Essay must be word processed, saved in a disk, free of spelling and grammar errors.

1- After the text has been read students write on the following: Essay 1- The Pearl is a tragic tale that shows the divisions between the classes and how those divisions affect the members. Write an essay in which you examine how the upper class discriminates against the lower class and how the discrimination affects the main characters of the novel. Essay 2- Write an essay in which you examine the music motif that is dominant throughout the novel The Pearl. What does music represent in the novel? Give examples from the text. Each essay is corrected by the instructo and the student integrates the corrections into a second draft that is to be word processed and saved on a disk.

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