- Language
- 1. Conduct structured small and large group discussion.
-
2. Actively participate in discussions to acquire knowledge.
-
3. Adapt oral presentation to audience, purpose, and information.
-
4. Use appropriate level of reading vocabulary.
-
5. Demonstrate an appropriate use of standard English.
-
6. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of dialects.
-
7. Describe the development of the English language.
-
-
- Composition
-
- 1. Write with focus, logical development, and supporting detail.
-
- 2. Select appropriate genres, reasoning, and style for specific audiences.
-
- 3. Demonstrate the ability to revise writing by improving organization, content,
paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice.
-
- 4. Use appropriate standard English conventions, such as structure, usage, punctuation,
capitalization, and spelling.
-
- 5. Use study skills such as questions, notes, summarizing, précis writing, and
outlining.
-
- 6. Use open-ended research questions, sources of information, and appropriate research
methods.
-
- 7. Develop and use rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria for final versions of
written projects.
|
- Content
Language
 | Analyze text of an historic speech to determine effective speaking strategies. |
| Compare role of standard English in speech, writing, and literature. |
| Use qualifiers to indicate different levels of certainty or hypothesis. |
| Develop several main points relating to a single thesis. |
| Use complex sentences with appropriate structure and consistent verb tenses. |
| Use correctly idioms, cognates, metaphors. |
Composition
| Conduct independent research for a research report. |
- - Report (research for content area).
| Produce multi-paragraph compositions of the following types: |
- - Critique analytical essay with documentation.
- - Timed, in-class essays.
| Edit and revise in terms of WRHS writing style manual dictates. |
Literature
| Compare/contrast the presentation of similar themes across genres and among works. |
| Defend the effectiveness of artistic choices made in the development of consistent
characters. |
| Describe how a particular genre can reflect an author's personal history, attitudes, or
beliefs. |
| Describe aesthetic qualities, using terminology of literary criticism based on textual
evidence. |
| Adjust reading strategies to clarify text. |
| Compare/contrast critical essays and biographies. |
| Analyze and compare figurative language and imagery in cross-cultural selections. |
Media
| Research, organize, and deliver presentation using all available technology. |
| Compare/contrast a televised version of a novel with a personal reading of the work. |
| Describe and compare how each medium offers different information or perspective of a
given event. |
|
- Literature
- 1. Demonstrate an ability to decode, understand, and use new words.
-
- 2. Identify main idea in what is heard, read, or viewed.
-
- 3. Demonstrate an understanding of different genres.
-
- 4. Identify, analyze, and apply theme, using evidence to support ideas.
-
- 5. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of fiction, using
evidence to support ideas.
-
- 6. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of nonfiction, using
evidence to support ideas.
-
- 7. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure, elements, and theme of poetry,
using evidence to support ideas.
-
- 8. Identify and analyze how words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood,
and set tone.
-
- 9. Compare/contrast a variety of cultural myths and narratives.
-
- 10. Interpret literary works, nonfiction, film, and media.
-
- 11. Present effective dramatic readings, recitations, and performances for a variety of
audiences.
-
- Media
1. Obtain information from a variety of media and evaluate the quality.
2. Explain how traditional forms are modified for electronic media.
3. Design and create coherent media productions with focus, detail, and consideration
of audience and purpose.
|