ESOL - ESOL 10th Lit/Comp

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Listening, Speaking and Viewing | Reading and Literature | Research and Media Literacy | Writing

Reading and Literature

PS1: INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
The learner will be able to read to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize ideas, arguments and perspectives represented in a wide variety of informational materials.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.1 Genre: Technical/Exposition The learner will be able to read, discuss and analyze technical literature and general exposition.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.2 Construct Meaning The learner will be able to use literal comprehension skills (e.g., sequencing, explicitly stated main idea).

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.3 Summarize: Main Ideas The learner will be able to identify, comprehend, and summarize the main and subordinate ideas in a written work.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.1.4 Language Processes: Specifics and Generalizations The learner will be able to comprehend, develop, and use specifics and generalizations.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.5 Fact/Opinion: Distinguish The learner will be able to distinguish between fact and opinion.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.6 Analyze: Inferential Strategies The learner will be able to use inferential comprehension skills (e.g., predictions, comparisons, conclusions, implicitly stated main idea).

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.1.7 Construct Meaning: Critically The learner will be able to read critically, ask pertinent questions, recognize assumptions and implications, and evaluate ideas.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.1.8 Interpretation: Hypotheses The learner will be able to create hypotheses and predict outcomes.

PS2: LITERATURE
The learner will be able to read, respond to, and critique historically and culturally significant works of literature in order to understand their importance and relationship to past and present cultures.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.2.1 World Literature: Diversity The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze world literature representing diversity (e.g., gender, nationality, and ethnicity).

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.2.2 Genre: Variety The learner will be able to read and understand a variety of genres including short stories, drama (Shakespearean) poetry, an epic (Arthurian legend), novel, nonfiction (including informational reading), for pleasure and self improvement.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.2.3 World Literature: Evaluation The learner will be able to analyze literature according to characterization, mood, tone, plot, and point of view.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.2.4 Genre: Variety/Familiarity The learner will be able to read and respond to mythology, especially Greek and Roman.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.2.5 Literature The learner will be able to judge literature critically on the basis of personal response, technical clarity, or literary quality.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.2.6 Literature The learner will be able to experience a variety of nonprint resources( films, recordings, theater, computers, and databases) as a part of the study of literature and vocation/technical writing.

л	ESOL.LA.10.2.7 Purposes: Human Behavior The learner will be able to gain insight into human behavior from the study of literature.

л	ESOL.LA.10.2.8 Reading Behaviors The learner will be able to read guided as well as independent supplemental readings.

PS3: VOCABULARY
The learner will be able to extend knowledge of complex and specialized vocabulary in interdisciplinary contexts.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.3.1 Strategies: Word Study The learner will be able to increase vocabulary skills through reading and through the vocabulary program and demonstrate progress through speaking and writing.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.3.2 Author Choices: Words The learner will be able to learn that words gather meaning from their context and carry connotation and denotation.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.3.3 Decode: Use/Structural Context The learner will be able to define unfamiliar words by using appropriate structural analysis skills including prefixes, suffixes, root words, and context clues.

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Writing

PS4: STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
The learner will be able to demonstrate consistent control of Standard American English and consistently apply the structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the work.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.1 Edit: Structure/Punctuation The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct punctuation: end punctuation, commas, colon, semicolon, quotation marks, apostrophe, apostrophe with singular and plural possessives.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.2 Capitalization The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct capitalization.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.3 Verb: Correct Use The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences with correct use of verbs.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.4 Subject-Verb: Agreement The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct subject-verb agreement.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.4.5 Usage: Correct The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct common usage: homonyms, misused words, double negatives, double comparisons, commonly confused words, possessive forms.

л	ESOL.LA.10.4.6 Word Choice: Applying The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using appropriate word choice.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.7 Forms: Plural The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct plural forms.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.8 Grammar: Understand/Use The learner will be able to show progress in mastering grammatical systems and patterns of usage.

л	ESOL.LA.10.4.9 Modifier: Understand The learner will be able to understand modifier placement.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.4.10 Sentence Structure: Awareness The learner will be able to demonstrate awareness of sentence structure.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.4.11 Sentence Structure The learner will be able to use a variety of sentence patterns that emphasize subordination and coordination.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.4.12 Revising: Sentences/Parallelism The learner will be able to revise sentences in a written work by applying effective parallelism.

л	ESOL.LA.10.4.13 Edit: Language Convention The learner will be able to understand and use pronoun reference.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.4.14 Social: Language/Differences The learner will be able to understand that English usage is shaped by social, cultural, and geographic differences.

PS5: WRITING PROCESS
The learner will be able to use a process approach to produce coherent, multi-paragraph compositions that reflect analysis and synthesis of ideas for a variety of purposes and audiences, with complexity of thought and structure.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.1 Writing as a Process The learner will be able to participate in a writing process that includes pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, proof-reading, and publishing with emphasis on revision.

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ESOL.LA.10.5.2 Organization: Purposes
The learner will be able to write for many purposes including, but not limited to personal, (journals, diaries, stories, poems) social (friendly letters, thank you notes, invitations), academic (themes, reports, essays, compositions, analyses, critiques), and business applications (letters, memos, applications), and technical (reports, memos, charts).

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.3 Organization: Thesis/Statement The learner will be able to organize, select and relate ideas and develop them into coherent multi-paragraph essays that include an introduction and thesis statement, body paragraphs, conclusion.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.4 Purposes: Writing The learner will be able to write in narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository modes of writing with emphasis on persuasive writing.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.5 Comparison/Contrast The learner will be able to write a comparison/contrast essay.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.6 Literary Analysis The learner will be able to write a literary analysis essay.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.7 Audience: Consider/Writing The learner will be able to adapt a writing style to various audiences.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.5.8 Usage: Audience/Language The learner will be able to use language appropriate to situation and audience.

л	ESOL.LA.10.5.9 Draw Conclusion: Refine The learner will be able to defend conclusions rationally.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.5.10 Tools The learner will be able to use the tools and resources of writers (e.g., specialized and general dictionaries, specialization manuals, thesauri, style manuals, and usage handbooks).

лл	ESOL.LA.10.5.11 Manuscript Forms The learner will be able to use appropriate elements of manuscript form: paragraph indentation, use of title, page numbering, title page, use of graphics.

л	ESOL.LA.10.5.12 Word Processing: Text/Word The learner will be able to compose and revise on a computer.

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Listening, Speaking and Viewing

PS6: LISTENING
The learner will be able to listen critically to process multiple information sources, to expand content knowledge, and to evaluate for decision making.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.6.1 Discussion: Skills/Participation The learner will be able to engage in discussion as both speaker and listener, critically and constructively interpreting, analyzing, and summarizing ideas.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.6.2 Notes: Main Idea The learner will be able to take notes on the main and subordinate ideas in lectures and discussions and report accurately on what others have said.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.6.3 Solution: Creative The learner will be able to invent solutions to problems using metaphors, analogies, brain-storming, models, and role-playing.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.6.4 Collaboration The learner will be able to work as a team member to solve problems.

л	ESOL.LA.10.6.5 Interpersonal: Communication The learner will be able to perceive and clarify understanding of verbal and non-verbal components of interpersonal communication.

PS7: DELIVER PRESENTATIONS
The learner will be able to deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that reflect an awareness of audience and combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.7.1 Processes: Communicate Main Ideas The learner will be able to conceive and develop ideas about a topic for the purpose of speaking to a group, choose and organize related ideas, present them clearly in standard American English, and evaluate similar presentations by others.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.7.2 Facts: Arguments The learner will be able to present arguments in orderly and convincing ways.

л	ESOL.LA.10.7.3 Speech: Audience/Purpose The learner will be able to adapt words and strategies to various situations and audiences.

л	ESOL.LA.10.7.4 Clarity The learner will be able to speak so others can hear and understand.

PS8: INTERPRET MEDIA
The learner will be able to analyze a wide range of media in order to evaluate the cognitive, affective, and ethical dimensions of the message.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.8.1 Mass Media: Representation The learner will be able to use appropriate criteria to evaluate messages and effects of mass media (newspaper, television, radio, film, and periodicals).

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Research and Media Literacy

PS9: RESEARCH AND PUBLISH
The learner will be able to formulate research questions, analyze and evaluate information from primary and secondary sources, and publish documented findings in a variety of formats.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.9.1 Research Skills: Variety The learner will be able to use the research process: selecting a topic, formulating questions, identifying key words, choosing sources, skimming, paraphrasing, note-taking, organizing, summarizing, and presenting.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.9.2 Reference Form: Text/Electronic The learner will be able to engage in the research process using appropriate print, electronic, and interview sources.

ллл	ESOL.LA.10.9.3 Research Project The learner will be able to gather information from print and non-print sources, write orders, descriptions, and reports using research; quote, paraphrase, and summarize accurately; and cite sources properly.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.9.4 Research Skills: Primary The learner will be able to review and apply research skills using multiple sources, primary and secondary.

л	ESOL.LA.10.9.5 Cite: Sources The learner will be able to attribute information and quotations to their sources.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.9.6 Research Technology: Access The learner will be able to use available technologies in the research process.

лл	ESOL.LA.10.9.7 Analyzing: Variety/Draw Conclusions The learner will be able to draw reasoned conclusions from various sources.

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