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A. Writing
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A. Writing
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A. Writing
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1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
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1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
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1. Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
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a. Use a variety of self-selected prewriting strategies to generate, select, narrow, and develop ideas
- Evaluate topics for personal relevance, scope, and feasibility
- Begin a coherent plan for developing ideas
- Explore and evaluate relevant sources of information
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a. Use a variety of self-selected prewriting strategies to generate, select, narrow, and develop ideas
- Evaluate topics for personal relevance, scope, and feasibility
- Begin a coherent plan for developing ideas
- Explore and evaluate relevant sources of information
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a. Use a variety of self-selected prewriting strategies to generate, select, narrow, and develop ideas
- Evaluate topic for personal relevance, scope, and feasibility
- Begin a coherent plan for developing ideas
- Explore and evaluate relevant sources of information
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b. Select, organize, and develop ideas appropriate to topic, audience, and purpose
- Organize information logically
- Use effective organizational structures
- Select or eliminate information as appropriate
- Verify the effectiveness of paragraph development by modifying topic, support, and concluding sentences as necessary
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b. Select, organize, and develop ideas appropriate to topic, audience, and purpose
- Organize information logically
- Use techniques such as graphic organizers and signal words to complete and clarify organizational structures
- Verify the effectiveness of paragraph development by modifying topic, support and concluding sentences as necessary
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b. Select, organize, and develop ideas appropriate to topic, audience, and purpose
- Organize information logically
- Use techniques such as graphic organizers and signal words to complete and clarify organizational structures
- Verify the effectiveness of paragraph development by modifying topic, support, and concluding sentences as necessary
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2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
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2. Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
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2. Compose oral, written and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
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a. Compose to express personal ideas by experimenting with a variety of forms and techniques suited to topic, audience, and purpose to develop an awareness of voice and tone
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a. Compose to express personal ideas by experimenting with a variety of forms and techniques suited to topic, audience, and purpose in order to develop a personal style and a clear, intentional, and consistent voice and tone
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a. Compose to express personal ideas by experimenting with a variety of forms and techniques suited to topic, audience, and purpose in order to develop a personal style, a distinctive voice, and a deliberate tone
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b. Describe in prose and/or poetic forms to clarify, extend, or elaborate on ideas by using vivid language such as imagery, figurative language, and sound elements
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b. Describe in prose and/or poetic forms to clarify, extend, or elaborate on ideas by using evocative language and appropriate organizational structure to create a dominant impression
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b. Describe in prose and/or poetic forms to clarify, extend, or elaborate on ideas by using evocative language and appropriate organizational structure to create a dominant impression
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c. Compose to inform using relevant support and a variety of appropriate organizational structures and signal words within a paragraph
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c. Compose to inform using relevant support and a variety of appropriate organizational structures and signal words within and between paragraphs
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c. Compose to inform using relevant support and appropriate organizational structures while maintaining an objective perspective
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d. Compose to persuade by supporting, modifying, or disagreeing with a position, using effective rhetorical strategies
- Support, modify, or disagree with a position and generate convincing evidence to support it
- Consider the effectiveness of diction, audience appeal, and organization
- Use connotation, repetition, and figurative language to control audience emotion and reaction
- Use authoritative citations
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d. Compose to persuade by supporting, modifying, or disagreeing with a position, using effective rhetorical strategies
- Write an assertion and use evidence that appeals to audience emotion, reasoning, or trust
- Organize ideas to construct a logical progression
- Use diction and syntax that is sincere, honest, and trustworthy
- Use connotation, repetition, parallelism, and figurative language to control audience emotion and reaction
- Use authoritative citations when effective and document appropriately
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d. Compose to persuade by supporting, modifying, or refuting a position, using effective rhetorical strategies
- Write an assertion and use evidence that appeals to audience emotion, reasoning, or trust
- Organize ideas to construct a logical progression
- Use diction and syntax that is sincere, honest, and trustworthy
- Use connotation, repetition, and figurative language to control audience emotion and reaction
- Use authoritative citations when effective and document appropriately
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e. Use writing-to-learn strategies such as dialect journals, quickwrites, and mindmaps to make connections between learning and prior knowledge
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e. Use writing-to-learn strategies such as reflective and metacognitive writing to set goals, make discoveries, and make connections among learned ideas
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e. Use writing-to-learn strategies such as reflective journals, metacognitive writings, and projections based on reflections to analyze and synthesize thinking and learning
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f. Manage time and process when writing for a given purpose
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f. Manage time and process when writing for a given purpose
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f. Manage time and process when writing for a given purpose
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3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
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3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
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3. Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
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a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
- Eliminate redundant and irrelevant words and ideas
- Clarify meaning through the placement of antecedents, modifiers, connectors, and transitional devices
- Coordinate equal ideas within a sentence
- Subordinate less important ideas within a sentence using phrases and clauses
- Maintain consistent person, number and tense
- Modify sentences from passive to active voice
- Vary sentence types and lengths to clarify and extend meaning and to develop style
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a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
- Eliminate redundant and irrelevant words and ideas
- Clarify meaning through the placement of antecedents, modifiers, connectors, and transitional devices
- Clarify the relationships among ideas through coordination and subordination that are purposeful, logical, succinct, and balanced
- Clarify meaning and purpose by using active voice and consistent person, number, tense, and mood
- Vary sentence types and lengths to clarify and extend meaning and to develop style
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a. Revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness
- Eliminate redundant and irrelevant words and ideas
- Clarify meaning through the placement of antecedents, modifiers, connectors, and transitional devices
- Clarify the relationships among ideas through coordination and subordination that are purposeful, logical, succinct, and parallel
- Clarify meaning and purpose by using active voice and consistent person, number, tense, and mood
- Vary sentence types and lengths to clarify and extend meaning, to demonstrate style, and to sustain audience interest
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b. Use suitable traditional and electronic resources to refine presentations and edit texts for effective and appropriate and conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation
- Self edit
- Peer edit
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Spell checker
- Language handbook
- Grammar checker
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b. Use suitable traditional and electronic resources to refine presentations and edit texts for effective and appropriate and conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation
- Self edit
- Peer edit
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Spell checker
- Language handbook
- Grammar checker
- Style book
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b. Use suitable traditional or electronic resources to refine presentations and edit texts for effective and appropriate and conventions such as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation
- Self edit
- Peer edit
- Dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Spell checker
- Language handbook
- Grammar checker
- Style book
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c. Prepare the final product for presentation to an audience
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c. Prepare the final product for presentation to an audience
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c. Prepare the final product for presentation to an audience
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4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
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4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
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4. Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
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a. Use precise word choice, formal to informal, based on audience, situation, or purpose
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a. Use precise word choice, formal to informal, based on audience, situation, or purpose
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a. Choose a level of language, formal to informal, appropriate for a specific audience, situation, or purpose
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b. Consider the connotative and/or denotative meanings of words when selecting vocabulary
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b. Make effective decisions regarding word choice according to connotative and denotative meanings
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b. Differentiate connotative from denotative meanings of words to make precise word choices
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c. Consider how word choices affect the audience
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c. Consider how readers or listeners might respond differently to the same words
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c. Consider how readers or listeners might respond differently to the same words
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5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, organizational pattern, word choice, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhetorical devices in the student's own composing
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5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, organizational pattern, word choice, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhetorical devices in the student's own composing
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5. Assess the effectiveness of choice of details, organizational pattern, word choice, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhetorical devices in the student's own composing
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a. Assess the effectiveness of diction that reveals his or her purpose
- Language appropriate for a particular audience
- Language suitable for a given purpose
- Words/phrases/sentences that extend meaning in a given context
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a. Assess the effectiveness of diction that reveals his or her purpose
- Language appropriate for a particular audience
- Language suitable for a given purpose
- Words/phrases/sentences that extend meaning in a given context
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a. Assess the effectiveness of diction that reveals his or her purpose
- Language appropriate for a particular audience
- Language suitable for a given purpose
- Words/phrases/sentences that extend meaning in a given context
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b. Explain how the specific language and expression used by the writer or speaker affects reader/listener response
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b. Explain how the specific language and expression used by the writer or speaker affects reader/listener response
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b. Explain how the specific language and expression used by the writer or speaker affects reader/listener response
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c. Evaluate the use of transitions in a text
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c. Evaluate the use of transitions in a text
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c. Evaluate the use of transitions and their effectiveness in a text
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6. Explain how textual changes alter tone, clarify meaning, address a particular audience, or fulfill a purpose
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6. Evaluate textual changes in a work and explain how these changes alter tone, clarify meaning, address a particular audience, or fulfill a purpose
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6. Evaluate textual changes in a work and explain how these changes alter tone, clarify meaning, address a particular purpose, or fulfill a purpose
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a. Identify the tone of one's own writing, and revise word choice to modify tone in order to address a given purpose and/or audience
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a. Alter the tone of one's own writing by revising its diction for a specific purpose and/or audience
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a. Alter the tone of one's own writing by revising its diction for a specific purpose and/or audience
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b. Justify revisions in syntax and diction from a previous draft of his or her same text by explaining how the change affects meaning
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b. Justify revisions in syntax and diction from a previous draft of his or her same text by explaining how the change affects meaning
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b. Justify revisions in syntax and diction from a previous draft of his or her same text by explaining how the change affects meaning
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7. Locate, retrieve and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
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7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
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7. Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
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a. Identify, evaluate, and use sources of information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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a. Identify, evaluate, and use sources of information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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a. Identify, evaluate, and use appropriate sources of information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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b. Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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b. Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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b. Use various information retrieval sources (traditional and/or electronic) to obtain information on a self-selected and/or given topic
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c. Use appropriate note taking procedures, organizational strategies, and proper documentation of sources of information
- Appropriate strategies for taking notes
- Appropriate strategies for organizing source information or notes
- Information to include or exclude when using a note taking method
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of a given strategy or procedure for recording or organizing information
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of asources of information such as bias, accuracy, availability, variety currency
- Use a recognized format for documentation such as MLA
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c. Use appropriate note taking procedures, organizational strategies, and proper documentation of sources of information
- Appropriate strategies for taking notes
- Appropriate strategies for organizing source information or notes
- Information to include or exclude when using a note taking method
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of a given strategy or procedure for recording or organizing information
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of asources of information such as bias, accuracy, availability, variety currency
- Use a recognized format for documentation such as MLA
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c. Use a systematic process for recording, documenting, and organizing this information
- Appropriate strategies for taking notes
- Appropriate strategies for organizing source information or notes
- Information to include or exclude when using a note taking method
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of a given strategy or procedure for recording or organizing information
- Advantages, disadvantages, or limitations of asources of information such as bias, accuracy, availability, variety currency
- Use a recognized format for documentation such as MLA
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d. Synthesize information from two or more sources to fulfill a self-selected or given purpose
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d. Synthesize information from two or more sources to fulfill a self-selected or given purpose
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d. Synthesize information from two or more sources to fulfill a self-selected or given purpose
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e. Use a recognized format to credit sources when paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting to avoid plagiarism
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e. Use a recognized format to credit sources when paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting to avoid plagiarism
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e. Use a recognized format to credit sources when paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting to avoid plagiarism
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