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Poyen School |
| Oral and Visual Communications |
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Adjust language to audience
The learner will be able to create, present, and adjust oral language to audience and appropriately apply the rules of standard English.
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Structured discussions
The learner will be able to prepare and participate in informal discussions and activities, such as oral presentations, group discussions/work teams, and debates that 1. exhibit a logical structure appropriate to the audience, context, and purpose.
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Visual aids in presentations
The learner will be able to use appropriate visual aids in presentations.
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Speaking activities
The learner will be able to perform a variety of speaking activities as scenes from a play, oral book reports, monologues, memorization of lines, character analysis, and literary reviews.
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Conventions of English
The learner will be able to analyze how the conventions of English affect oral expressions.
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Purpose for listening
The learner will be able to establish a purpose for listening and identify relevant information.
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Barriers to listening
The learner will be able to identify barriers to listening and generate methods to overcome them.
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Listening skills
The learner will be able to demonstrate critical listening skills and productive participation in self-directed work teams for a particular purpose to include 1. listening with civility to ideas of others 2. gaining the floor in respectful ways 3. offering dissent courteously 4. ensuring a hearing of diverse positions 5. avoiding premature consensus.
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Advantages/disadvantages media
The learner will be able to compare the advantages and disadvantages of various types of media.
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Response to media
The learner will be able to articulate personal response to such media as editorials, news stories, and advertisements.
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Bias/point of view
The learner will be able to identify and evaluate a media source for bias and point of view.
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| Writing |
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Ideas for writing
The learner will be able to generate, gather, and organize ideas for writing.
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Write for audience
The learner will be able to plan and organize writing to address a specific audience and purpose with emphasis on narration.
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Purpose of writing
The learner will be able to communicate clearly the purpose of the writing.
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Clear & Varied sentences
The learner will be able to write clear and varied sentences.
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Elaborate ideas
The learner will be able to elaborate ideas clearly and accurately through word choice, vivid description, and selected information.
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Adapt to audience
The learner will be able to adapt content vocabulary, voice, and tone to audience, purpose and situation.
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Arrange paragraphs
The learner will be able to arrange paragraphs into a logical progression with appropriate transition.
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Revise Content
The learner will be able to revise content of writing for central idea, elaboration, unity, and organization.
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Revise style
The learner will be able to revise style of writing for selected vocabulary, selected information, sentence variety, tone and voice.
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Revise sentence formation
The learner will be able to revise sentence formation in writing for completeness, coordination, subordination, standard word order, and absence of fused sentences.
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Edit by grammatical conventions
The learner will be able to apply grammatical conventions to edit for standard inflections, agreement, word meaning, and conventions.
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Grammatical conventions
The learner will be able to apply grammatical conventions for capitalization, punctuation, formatting, and spelling.
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Refine pieces
The learner will be able to refine selected pieces frequently to publish for intended audiences and purposes.
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Writing portfolio
The learner will be able to maintain a writing portfolio that exhibits growth and reflection in the progress of meeting goals and expectations.
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Technology for writing
The learner will be able to use available technology for all aspects of the writing process.
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Adjust formality
The learner will be able to adjust levels of formality, style, and tone when composing for different audiences.
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Biographies & Autobiographies
The learner will be able to write biographies or autobiographies that 1) communicate the significance of the events and characters 2) specify scenes and incidents in specific places 3) describe using sensory details 4) pace time and mood 5) maintain consistency in point of view.
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Expository compositions
The learner will be able to write expository compositions, including analytical essays and research reports that assemble and convey evidence in support of the thesis.
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Rhetorical strategies
The learner will be able to write using rhetorical strategies with special emphasis on definition, narration, description, exemplification, and compare/contrast.
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Write work related documents
The learner will be able to write a variety of work related documents such as letters, including letters of complaint or apology that: 1. follow a customary format, including proper salutation, closing and signature and create predictable structures through the use of headings, white space, and graphics 2. address audience needs, stated purpose and context 3. provide clear, purposeful information that includes relevant information and excludes extraneous information 4. use appropriate vocabulary, tone, and style 5. use appropriate strategies, such as providing facts and details and/or describing and analyzing the subject.
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Write poems
The learner will be able to write poems using a range of poetic techniques, forms, and figurative language, emphasizing narrative poetry.
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Write response to literature
The learner will be able to write responses to literature that 1) articulate the significant ideas of literary works 2) support important ideas with evidence from text 3) recognize conflicts (character dilemmas) as revealed by characters' motivations and behaviors.
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Write on demand
The learner will be able to write on demand to a specified prompt within a given time frame.
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Write across curriculum
The learner will be able to write across the curriculum.
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Clauses
The learner will be able to use knowledge of types of clauses (main, subordinate).
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Parallel structures
The learner will be able to use parallel structures.
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Types of verbals
The learner will be able to use knowledge of types of verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles).
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Parts of a sentence
The learner will be able to apply rules for the parts of a sentence, including subject/verb, direct/indirect object, predicate nominative/predicate adjective, objective complement, and pronoun case.
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Active/passive voice
The learner will be able to distinguish between active and passive voice.
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