English Language Arts Standards (Grades 11-12)
Reading: Acquisition of Vocabulary
1. Verify meanings of words by the author's use of definition, restatement, example, comparison, contrast and cause and effect
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-monitoring Strategies
1. Apply reading comprehension strategies to understand grade appropriate texts.
2. Use appropriate self-monitoring strategies for comprehension.
Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text
1. Analyze the features and structures of documents and critique them for their effectiveness
3. Synthesize the content from several sources on a single issue or written by a single author, clarifying ideas and connecting them to other sources and related texts.
5. Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness and validity of agreements in public documents and their appeal to various audiences.
7. Analyze the structure and features of a functional and workplace documents, including format, sequence and headers, and how authors use these features to achieve their purposes and to make information accessible and useable.
Writing Processes
1. Generate writing ideas through discussions with others and from printed material, and keep a list of writing ideas.
2. Determine the usefulness of and apply appropriate pre-writing tasks
3. Establish and develop a clear thesis statement for informational writing
4. Determine a purpose and audience and plan strategies to address purpose and audience.
10. Use technology to compose text.
11. Reread and analyze clarity of writing, consistency of point of view and effectiveness or organizational structure.
12. Add and delete examples and details to better elaborate on a stated central idea, to develop more precise analysis or persuasive argument
16. Apply tools to judge the quality of writing
17. Prepare for publication writing that follows a manuscript form appropriate for the purpose.
Writing Applications
3. Write functional documents that: a. report, organizes, and convey information accurately; b. use formatting techniques that make a document user-friendly; c. anticipate readers’ problems, mistakes, and misunderstandings.
4. Write informational essays or reports, including research, that: a. develop a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject; b. create an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context c. include information on all relevant perspectives, considering the validity and reliability of primary and secondary sources; d. make distinctions about the relative value and significance of specific data, facts, and g. anticipate and address a reader’s potential biases, misunderstandings, and expectations; and f. provide a sense of closure to the writing.
Writing Conventions
1. Use correct spelling conventions.
2. Use correct capitalization and punctuation.
3. Use correct grammar.
Research
1. Compose open-ended questions for research, assigned or personal interest, and modify questions as necessary during inquiry and investigation to narrow the focus or extend the investigation.
3. Determine the accuracy of sources and the credibility of the author by analyzing the sources’ validity.
7. Use a variety of communication techniques including oral, visual, written, or multimedia reports to present information that supports a clear position about the topic or research question and defend the credibility and validity of the information presented.
Communication: Oral and Visual
1. Apply active listening strategies.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English language and select language appropriate to purpose and audience.
6. Adjust volume, tempo, phrasing, enunciation, voice modulation, and inflection to stress important ideas and impact audience response.
7. Vary language choices as appropriate to the context of the speech.
8. Deliver informational presentations that: a.present a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject; b. present events or ideas in a logical sequence; c. support the controlling idea with well-chosen and relevant facts, details, examples, quotations, statistics, stories, and anecdotes; d. include an effective introduction and conclusion and use a consistent organizational structure; e. use appropriate visual materials and available technology to enhance presentation.
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