English Core Learning Goals
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Goal 1: The student will demonstrate the ability to respond to a text by employing personal experiences and critical analysis. Expectation 1: The student will use effective strategies before, during, and after reading, viewing, and listening to self-selected and assigned materials. Indicators of Learning: 1. The student will use pre-reading strategies appropriate to both the text and purpose for reading by surveying the text, accessing prior knowledge, formulating questions, setting purpose(s), and making predictions. 2. The student will use during-strategies appropriate to both the text and purpose for reading by visualization, making connections, and fix-up strategies such as reading, questioning, and summarizing. 3. The student will use after-reading strategies appropriate to both the text and purpose for reading by summarizing, comparing, contrasting, synthesizing, drawing conclusions, and validating the purpose for reading. 4. The student will apply before-, during-, and after-reading strategies when responding to non-print text, e.g., film, speakers, theatre, performance, audio texts, and interactive media. 5. The student will identify specific structural elements of particular literary forms: poetry, short story, novel, drama, essay, biography, autobiography, journalistic writing, and film. Goal 1: Expectation2: The student will construct, examine, and extend meaning of traditional and contemporary work recognized as having significant literary merit. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will consider the contributions of plot, character, setting, conflict, and point of view when constructing the meaning of a text. 2. The student will examine meaning by determining how the speaker, organization, sentence structure, word choice, tone, rhythm, and imagery reveal the author's purpose. 3. The student will explain the effectiveness of stylistic elements such as syntax, rhetorical devices, and choice of details which communicate the author's purpose. 4. The student will explain connections between and among themes and styles of two or more texts. 5. The student will extend or further develop meaning by explaining the implications of the text for the reader or contemporary society. 6. The student will extend or further develop meaning by comparing texts presented in different media. Goal 1: Expectation 3: The student will explain and give evidence to support perceptions about print and non-print works. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will explain how language and textual devices create meaning. 2. The student will interpret a work by using a critical approach (e.g., reader response, historical, cultural, biographical, structural) that is supported with textual references. 3. The student will identify features of language that create voice and tone. 4. The student will explain how devices such as staging, lighting, blocking, special effects, graphics, language, and other techniques unique to non-print medium are used to create meaning and evoke response. 5. The student will explain how common and universal experiences serve as the source of literary themes which cross time and cultures. 6. The student will assess the literary merit of a text. Goal 2: The student will demonstrate the ability to compose in a variety of modes by developing content, employing specific forms, and selecting language appropriate for a particular audience and purpose. Expectation 1: The student will compose oral, written, and visual presentations which inform, persuade, and express personal ideas. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will compose to inform by using appropriate types of prose (e.g., to explain a process, to discuss cause and effect). 2. The student will compose to describe, using prose and/or poetic forms. 3. The student will compose to express personal ideas, using prose and/or poetic forms. 4. The student will compose persuasive texts that support, modify, or refute a position and include effective rhetorical strategies. Goal 2: Expectation 2: The student will compose texts using the prewriting, drafting, and revision strategies of effective writers and speakers. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will use a variety of prewriting strategies to generate and develop ideas. 2. The student will select and organize ideas for specific audiences and purposes. 3. The student will revise texts for clarity, completeness, and effectiveness. 4. The student will rehearse oral texts for effective application of diction intonation, and rhetorical strategies, such as introductions, sequence, illustrations, and conclusions. 5. The student will use suitable traditional and electronic resources to refine presentations and edit texts for effective and appropriate use of language and conventions, such as capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. 6. The student will prepare the final product for presentation to an audience. Goal 2: Expectation 3: The student will locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will identify sources of information on a self selected and/or given topic. 2. The student will use various information retrieval sources (traditional and electronic) to obtain information on a self-selected and/or given topic. Electronic sources include automated catalogs, CD ROM products, and on-line services like Internet, World Wide Web, and others. 3. The student will use a systematic process for recording, documenting, and organizing information. 4. The student will take a position and support it with documented information form an authoritative source. 5. The student will synthesize information from two or more sources to fulfill a self-selected or given purpose. Goal 3: The student will demonstrate the ability to control language by applying the conventions of standard English in writing and speaking. Expectation 1: The student will demonstrate understanding of the nature and structure of language, including grammar concepts and skills, to strengthen control of oral and written language. Indicators of Learning: 1. The student will determine the advantages and limitations of speech and writing when communicating in various situations for specific audiences and purposes. 2. The student will describe how intonation, pitch, volume, pause, and rate all influence meaning. 3. The student will explain how words are classified grammatically by meaning, position, form, and function. 4. The student will differentiate grammatically complete sentences from non-sentences. 5. The student will incorporate subjects, predicates, and modifiers when composing original sentences. 6. The student will compound various sentence elements - subjects, predicates, modifiers, phrases, and clauses - to link or contrast related ideas. 7. The student will vary sentence types - simple, complex, compound, and compound/complex - to sustain reader or listener interest. 8. The student will expand sentences by positioning clauses and phrases to function as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. 9. The student will recognize, combine, and transform basic sentence patterns to vary sentence structure, to emphasize selected ideas, and to achieve syntax maturity. Goal 3: Expectation 2: The student will identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will choose a level of language, formal to informal, appropriate for a specific audience, situation, or purpose. 2. The student will differentiate connotative from denotative meanings of words. 3. The student will describe how readers or listeners might respond differently to the same words. 4. The student will describe regional and social language differences. 5. The student will describe the impact of regional and social variations of language on listener or reader response. Goal 3: Expectation 3: The student will use capitalization, punctuation, and correct spelling appropriately. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will edit texts for spelling, capitalization, and punctuation using available resources. 2. The student will use available resources to correct or confirm editorial choices. Goal 4: The student will demonstrate the ability to evaluate the content, organization, and language of texts. Expectation 1: The student will describe the effect that a given text, heard or read, has on a listener or reader. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will state and explain a personal response to a given text. 2. The student will identify specific words, phrases, scenes, images, and symbols that support a personal response to a given text. Goal 4: Expectation 2: The student will 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. Indicators of Learning 1. The student will assess the effectiveness of diction that reveals his or her purpose. 2. The student will explain how the specific language and expression used by the writer or speaker affects reader or listener response. 3. The student will evaluate the use of transitions and their effectiveness in a text. 4. The student will explain how repetitions of words, phrases, structural features, and ideas affect the meaning and/or tone of a text. Goal 4: Expectation 3: The student will evaluate textual changes in a work and explain how these changes alter tone, clarify meaning, address a particular audience, or fulfill a purpose. Indicators of Learning: 1. The student will alter the tone of his or her text by revising its diction. 2. The student will justify revisions in syntax and diction from a previous draft of his or her same text by explaining how the change affects meaning. 3. The student will alter his or her text to present the same content to a different audience via the same or different media. 4. The student will compare the difference in effect of two texts on a given subject.
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