Second Grade

Doctrine and Covenants

Skills: 

• Read aloud fluently and expressively, emphasizing important words 
• Identify key passages about setting, character, plot, and theme
• Highlight noteworthy passages
• Annotate texts in the margins to identify one-liners
• Take notes of never to 
• Summarize orally in front of the class and in written paragraphs
• Understand the principles underlying key themes
• Evaluate truthfulness and usefulness of themes
• Discuss how themes relate to themselves and others

Texts: 

• Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin by Benjamin West, 
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• Psalm 23
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Tools: 

• books
• bookmarks
• marking pencils
• notebooks
• paper
• pens
• pencils

Major Assignments: 

• Book reports
• Word studies: kindness, anger
• Never-to-be-forgotten truths (linked)

Vocabulary:

• theme
• plot
• setting
• character
• resolution