- Language
- 1. Conduct structured small and large group discussion.
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2. Actively participate in discussions to acquire knowledge.
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3. Adapt oral presentation to audience, purpose, and information.
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4. Use appropriate level of reading vocabulary.
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5. Demonstrate an appropriate use of standard English.
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6. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of dialects.
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7. Describe the development of the English language.
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- Composition
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- 1. Write with focus, logical development, and supporting detail.
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- 2. Select appropriate genres, reasoning, and style for specific audiences.
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- 3. Demonstrate the ability to revise writing by improving organization, content,
paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice.
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- 4. Use appropriate standard English conventions, such as structure, usage, punctuation,
capitalization, and spelling.
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- 5. Use study skills such as questions, notes, summarizing, précis writing, and
outlining.
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- 6. Use open-ended research questions, sources of information, and appropriate research
methods.
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- 7. Develop and use rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria for final versions of
written projects.
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- Content
Language
 | Identify types of fallacies (ad hominem, over-generalization, misleading syllogism). |
| Deliver oral presentations using diction, gesture, tone, appropriate vocabulary and
organization. |
| Analyze and evaluate theirself and others regarding participation in group discussion. |
| Identify, describe, and apply all conventions of standard English to reading, writing,
speaking, listening, and viewing. |
Composition
| Produce multi-paragraph compositions of the following types: |
- - Critiques analytical essay with documentation.
- - Exposition: personal essay.
Literature
| Identify and explain the use of satire, parody, allegory, and pastoral. |
| Describe how an author may use elements of fiction for specific rhetorical and aesthetic
purposes. |
| Demonstrate an understanding of how authors have used archetypes in a variety of genres. |
| Analyze moral and philosophical arguments, an author's ideology, or archetypal patterns
as portrayed in selected work(s). |
| Evaluate and synthesize essential ideas in what they read, hear, and view. |
| Identify ways in which an author uses elements of nonfiction to achieve purpose. |
| Analyze and evaluate in poetry the use of diction, imagery, figurative language, irony,
and paradox. |
Media
| Review critically the treatment of a literary work by three different sources. |
| Compare/contrast a writer's craft with that of the visual artist. |
| Explain the value of multimedia in communication and as an artform. |
| Use multimedia to demonstrate understanding of a theme or issue related to literary
work(s). |
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- Literature
- 1. Demonstrate an ability to decode, understand, and use new words.
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- 2. Identify main idea in what is heard, read, or viewed.
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- 3. Demonstrate an understanding of different genres.
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- 4. Identify, analyze, and apply theme, using evidence to support ideas.
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- 5. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of fiction, using
evidence to support ideas.
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- 6. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure and elements of nonfiction, using
evidence to support ideas.
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- 7. Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of structure, elements, and theme of poetry,
using evidence to support ideas.
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- 8. Identify and analyze how words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood,
and set tone.
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- 9. Compare/contrast a variety of cultural myths and narratives.
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- 10. Interpret literary works, nonfiction, film, and media.
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- 11. Present effective dramatic readings, recitations, and performances for a variety of
audiences.
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- 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.
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