Standards that will be met:
Texts used:
Alive
Outsiders
Hamlet
- Understands maintaining the flow of ideas in a text depends on integrating information selectively from multiple sources.
- Knows the accuracy and relevance of information is enhanced by using multiple sources.
- Understands bias, currency, and author's qualifications are used to assess the credibility and relevance of a source.
- Understands figurative language enhances meaning beyond the literal meaning of words.
- Understands word choice impacts mood and tone.
- Understands voice can be revised to enhance writing.
- Understands advanced research includes conducting an advanced search, using multiple print and online sources, adjusting strategies as appropriate, citing information and creating a properly formatted bibliography.
- Understands sentences need varied transitions connections to enhance rhythm, flow, and cadence.
- Is skilled at developing a conclusion to support a thesis statement.
- Is skilled at linking complex ideas and information within and across paragraphs using varied transition to clarify the relationship among ideas.
- Is skilled at developing connections and distinctions while maintaining a clear and objective tone by introducing a complex thesis and organizing complex ideas, concepts and information.
- Is skilled at providing a conclusion that reflects experience, observation,or resolution.
- Is skilled at establishing perspective by a creating a smooth progression of ideas and establishing a particular tone and mood.
- Is skilled at anticipating and addressing the audience's point of view to enhance a piece of writing.
- Understands voice enhances writing
Texts used:
Alive
Outsiders
Hamlet