Grade: 12th Grade

Course: Language Arts IV

Discipline: Communication Arts

Additional Course Information:

Course Description

1 credit. Required.

Objectives:

Local Objective
Students will revise their papers after analyzing and criticizing their own papers and considering peer editor feedback.
Local Objective
In an essay, students will reflect on how their name has affected their life. III. 2. Use a word processor to produce a document
Local Objective
Students will use resources to reduce surface errors in their first paper for practice. III 2. Use a word processor to produce a document (e.g. underlining, bold, insert items, cut/paste, web pages).
Local Objective
Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic grammar rules and structures.
Local Objective
Students will make meaning of an influence in their life in an informal/personal essay. III. 2. Use a word processor to produce a document
Local Objective
Students will produce a research paper following the proper procedures. III. 2. Use a word processor to produce a document IV. 2. Use internet for research services V. 2. Collect information and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of the information and its sources.
Local Objective
Students will argue for a position in a persuasive paper following the proper guidelines. III.1. 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). PERSUASIVE III 2. Use a word processor to produce a document (e.g. underlining, bold, insert items, cut/paste, web pages). IV. 2. Use internet for email and research services (FILTERED). IV. 3. Use information and communication systems to inform, persuade, entertain, control, manage, and educate (e.g. internet, telephone, televisions, radios, computers, fax machines). V. 2. Collect information and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of the information and its sources. VI. 1. Create, apply and evaluate a design process to solve problems in and/or beyond the laboratory/classroom (e.g. an invention, an innovation, or a solution based on a need, want or problem).
Local Objective
Students will criticize a selected topic in a critical review essay.
Local Objective
Students will analyze the tone of a selected essay in an essay.
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In an essay, students will analyze the character from a selected short story. III. 2. Use a word processor to produce a document
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Students will analyze, critique, and reflect on various readings in literature through ten minute writings.
Unit
Senior Project
Proposal Paper
Local Objective
Students will use the steps of the writing process to compose a 2-3 page proposal for their Senior Project.
Unit
Senior Project
Research Paper

Local Objective

Students will produce an 8-10 page research paper on a topic closely related to their senior project.

Unit

Senior Project
Presentation

Local Objective

Students will present a presentation including PowerPoint and an additional visual aid exhibiting the process and completion of the Senior Project and product.

Unit

Senior Project
Portfolio

Local Objective

Students will compile a portfolio of papers and forms collected during the Senior Project process.

Unit

College and Career Choice

Local Objective

Students will reflect on their future plans by researching and analyzing the information they find about the path the choose to follow.