Grade: 11th Grade

Course: Language Arts III, College Prep

Discipline: Communication Arts

Additional Course Information:

Course Description

1 credit. Required.

Objectives:

Local Objective
B2: Students will analyze the cause/effect relationship the Scarlet Letter had on Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale. (W1A)
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C1: Students will compare and contrast 2 characters from a story or novel. (W1A)
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B1 Students will analyze and evaluate nonfiction literature. (R3B)
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E1: Students will summarize and paraphrase information presented from an interview.(W2A, W3A)
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A1: Students will apply grammar usage and mechanics rules to revise writing. (W2C)
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D2: Student will construct and organize afive paragraph essay. (W2A,W2B)
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C3: Student will choose and critique characters, consequences, or themes from a short story or novel. Tech. III.1: Students will use content-specific technological tools and resources to manage data and produce a product or system (e.g. determine a community concern and generate possible solutions). (ITEA 8) Tech. III.2: Students will use a word processor to produce a document (e.g., underlining, bold, insert items, cut/paste, web pages). Tech. IV.1: Design, develop and present multi-media presentations. Tech IV.4: Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base, by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information models and other creative works (e.g., survey results, interviews, evaluations).(W1A)
R3C & W3 compose an accurate/reasonable writteninterpretation of character, consequence or theme & use of relevant details to support critique
W2A-E compose text with an awareness of audience and purpose and effective use ofideas and content, organization and sentence structure, word choice, conventions
Tech III1&2, IV1& 4 correct format, clarity, and accuracyof document
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D3: Students will compare and contrast two historical figures through their personal writings. (W2A, W2B, W2C, R2B, R2C)
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A2: Wordskills Vocabulary- The students will predict meanings of new words and concepts from context using various decoding strategies. (R1E)
Unit
Research Unit
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D1: Students will produce research papers that develop a thesis, contain information from multiple sources, and conform to MLA style. Tech IV.2: Use internet for e-mail and research services. (FILTERED). Tech IV.3: Use information and communication systems to inform, persuade, entertain, control, manage, and educate (e.g. internet, telephone, televisions, radios, computers, fax machines). (ITEA 17). (I1A, I1B, I1C, I1D)
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C2: The student will examine Myers' writing techniques in the novel Monster. Tech. III.2: Students will use a word processor to produce a document (e.g., underlining, bold, insert items, cut/paste, web pages). Tech IV.4: Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base, by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information models and other creative works (e.g., survey results, interviews, evaluations). (R2B, W2A, W2B, W3A)