Standards

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Standards

• English Language Arts

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Reading Goal

• The student will draw upon a variety of
  strategies to comprehend, interpret, analyze and
  evaluate what he or she reads.

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Reading Process and Comprehension

• The student will integrate various cues and
  strategies to comprehend what he or she reads.
• read independently, make connections to prior
  knowledge, genres, real-world texts, author bias,
  purpose, poetry, drama, fiction, thesis,
  argument, paraphrase

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Analysis of Texts

• The student will use knowledge of the purposes,
  structures, and elements of writing to analyze
  and interpret various types of texts.
• plot, character, setting, theme, foreshadowing,
  flashback, soliloquy, irony, dialect, asides,
  tone, figurative language, word choice, syntax,
  point of view, internal and external conflict,
  Socratic questioning, literature circles, graphic
  organizers, reference books, analogies, idioms

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Writing Goal

• The student will write for different audiences
  and purposes.

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The Writing Process

• The student will apply a process approach to
  writing.
• prewriting, audience, purpose, central idea,
  supporting details, revision, collaboration,
  edit, word usage, resume

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Writing Purposes

• The student will write for a variety of purposes.
• explain, inform, persuade, respond orally and in
  writing, literary models

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Communication Goal

• The student will recognize, demonstrate, and
  analyze the qualities of effective communication.

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Communication - Speaking

• The student will use speaking skills to
  participate in large and small groups in both
  formal and informal situations.
• purpose, audience, fluency, use of technology,
  oral presentations, discussions, speeches,
  debates, dramatic readings, Standard American
  English, reference to texts

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Communication - Listening

• The student will use listening skills to
  comprehend and analyze information he or she
  receives in both formal and informal situations.
• distinguish fact from opinion, evaluate, analyze,

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Communication - Viewing

• The student will comprehend and analyze
  information he or she receives from nonprint
  sources.
• nonprint sources, presentation, aesthetics,
  compare and contrast, bias, intent, purpose

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Research Goal

• The student will access and use information from
  a variety of appropriately selected sources to
  extend his or her knowledge.

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Selecting a Research Topic

• The student will select a topic for exploration.
• ask questions to guide inquiry, primary and
  secondary sources, refine a topic, documentation,
  note-taking strategies