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ESOL - ESOL 9th 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.9.1.1 Genre: Technical/Expository
The learner will be able to read, discuss and analyze technical literature and general exposition.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.1.2 Summarize: Main Ideas
The learner will be able to identify, comprehend, and summarize the main and subordinate ideas in a written work.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.1.3 Fact/Opinion: Distinguish
The learner will be able to distinguish between fact and opinion.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.1.4 Construct Meaning: Strategies
The learner will be able to use literal comprehension skills (e.g., sequencing, explicitly stated main idea).
  

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ESOL.LA.9.1.5 Rate: Varying/Skimming
The learner will be able to vary reading speed and methods according to the type of material and purpose of reading.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.1.6 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.9.1.7 Construct Meaning: Critical
The learner will be able to read critically, ask pertinent questions, recognize assumptions and implications, and evaluate ideas.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.1.8 Strategies: Text Features
The learner will be able to use the features of print materials appropriately (e.g., table of contents, preface, introduction, titles and subtitles, index, glossary, appendix, and bibliography).
  

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ESOLA.9.1.9 Language Processes: Specifics and Generations
The learner will be able to comprehend, develop, and use specifics and generalizations.
  
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 ESOLA.9.2.1 Genre: Variety
The learner will be able to read and understand a variety of genres: short stories, drama (Romeo and Juliet) poetry, epic (The Odyssey), novel, nonfiction (including informational reading), structural elements of literature, literary terms.
  
л ESOLA.9.2.2 Reading Behaviors: Personal
The learner will be able to read literature (including an epic, short stories, drama, poetry, essays, novels, magazines, newspapers, charts, graphs, and technical documents) for pleasure and self-improvement.
  
ллл ESOLA.9.2.3 Structure: Identify
The learner will be able to identify the structural elements of literature (e.g., plot, characterization, setting, mood, tone, and point of view.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.2.4 Myth: Greek Mythology
The learner will be able to read and respond to mythology.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.2.5 Print/Nonprint: Use
The learner will be able to use a variety of print and nonprint resources (e.g., films, recordings, theater, computer data bases) as parts of the study of literature.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.2.6 Interpretation: Hypotheses
The learner will be able to create hypotheses and predict outcomes.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.2.7 Purposes: Human Behaviors
The learner will be able to gain insight into human behavior from the study of literature.
  
PS3: VOCABULARY
The learner will be able to extend knowledge of complex and specialized vocabulary in interdisciplinary contexts.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.3.1 Decode: Use/Structural Cues
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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ESOL.LA.9.3.2 Construct Meaning: Vocabulary
The learner will be able to apply vocabulary study: vocabulary in context, prefixes, suffixes and roots, connotation and denotation, word analogies.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.3.3 Reading: Expand/Literature
The learner will be able to acquire new vocabulary through reading and through the vocabulary program and demonstrate progress through speaking and writing.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.3.4 Analogy: Solve
The learner will be able to solve word analogy problems.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.3.5 Author Choices: Words
The learner will be able to learn that words gather meaning from their context and carry connotation and denotation.
  
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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.9.4.1 Parts of Speech: Review
The learner will be able to review parts of speech and parts of sentence.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.4.2 Verb: Correct Use/Identification
The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences with correct use of verbs.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.4.3 Forms: Plural
The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct plural forms.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.4.4 Word Choice: Applying
The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using appropriate word choice.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.4.5 Subject-Verb: Agreement
The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct subject-verb agreement.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.4.6 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.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.4.7 Capitalization: Apply/Com
The learner will be able to write standard American English sentences using correct capitalization.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.4.8 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.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.4.9 Spelling: Misspelled Word
The learner will be able to correctly spell commonly misspelled words: athlete-athlete, congradulations -congratulations, collage-college, definately-definitely; diffrent/diferent- different, enviroment/environment; excercise/exercise; Febuary- February, goverment-government; kindergarden/ kindergarten; knowlege-knowledge; libary-library, restruant-restaurant; seperate-separate; sincerly/sincerely; sophmore-sophomore; supose-suppose; truely/truly; (will include rules-based spelling).
  
л ESOL.LA.9.4.10 Double Letter: Consonant
The learner will be able to double consonants in -ing forms.
  
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.9.5.1 Writing as a Process: Application
The learner will be able to participate in the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.2 Paragraph: Clear/Developed
The learner will be able to write well developed paragraphs with clear, controlling ideas.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.5.3 Language Conventions: Audience
The learner will be able to use written language appropriate to situation and audience.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.4 Paragraph: Multi/Write/Statement
The learner will be able to write a multi-paragraph essay that includes: opening statement, thesis statement, topic sentence, paragraph development, transitional devices, conclusion.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.5 Essay: Variety/Write
The learner will be able to write multi-paragraph compositions: narrative, descriptive, persuasive, expository and informational.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.6 Analyze: Character Analysis
The learner will be able to write a literary analysis paper (character analysis).
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.7 Draw Conclusion: Refine
The learner will be able to defend conclusions rationally.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.5.8 Manuscript Forms
The learner will be able to use appropriate manuscript form: paragraph indentation, use of title, page numbering, title page, use of graphics.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.5.9 Word Processing: Text/Writing
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.9.6.1 Directions: Complicated/Follow
The learner will be able to follow multi-part instructions and ask questions for clarification.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.6.2 Purposes: Speaker's/Motivation
The learner will be able to recognize speaker's purpose and identify verbal and non-verbal components of communication (body language, facial expression, gestures).
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.6.3 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.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.6.4 Discussion: Skills/Participation
The learner will be able to engage critically and constructively in discussions by speaking and listening.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.6.5 Discussion: Solve Problem
The learner will be able to work as a team member to solve problems.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.6.6 Speaking
The learner will be able to identify verbal and nonverbal components of interpersonal communications.
  
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.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.7.1 Speech: Audience/Purpose
The learner will be able to adapt words and statements to various situations and audiences.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.7.2 Speaking: Appropriate Loudness
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.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.8.1 Persuasion: Effects/Understand
The learner will be able to understand the effects of mass media: persuasive techniques (bandwagon, testimonial, name-calling, glittering generality, ad hominem, begging the question) and recognizing the purpose, intended audience, and significance of details in a media message.
  
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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.9.9.1 Research Skills: Variety
The learner will be able to use the research process: selecting a topic, formulating questions, identifying key words, choosing sources, skimming.
  

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ESOL.LA.9.9.2 Research Skills: Use/Support
The learner will be able to use paraphrasing, note-taking, organizing, summarizing, and presenting.
  
ллл ESOL.LA.9.9.3 Research Skills: Awareness
The learner will be able to use the research process: primary internal documentation, finding sources-validity.
  
л ESOL.LA.9.9.4 Analyzing: Variety/Draw Conclusions
The learner will be able to draw reasoned conclusions from various sources.
  
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