ESOL - ESOL American Literature

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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.AL.1.1 Construct Meaning: Critical The learner will be able to read critically, ask pertinent questions, recognize assumptions and implications, and evaluate ideas.

ллл	ESOL.AL.1.2 Construct Meaning: Strategies The learner will be able to use literal comprehension skills (e.g., sequencing, explicitly stated main idea).

л	ESOL.AL.1.3 Analyze: Inferential Strategies The learner will be able to use inferential comprehension skills (e.g., predictions, comparisons, conclusions, implicitly stated main idea).

ллл	ESOL.AL.1.4 Fiction/Nonfiction: Main Ideas The learner will be able to identify, comprehend, and summarize the main and subordinate ideas in written work.

л	ESOL.AL.1.5 Analyze: Relationships The learner will be able to analyze logical relationships and arguments and detect fallacies.

ллл	ESOL.AL.1.6 Fact/Opinion: Distinguish The learner will be able to distinguish between fact and opinion.

ллл	ESOL.AL.1.7 Draw Conclusion: Variety The learner will be able to draw reasoned conclusions from various sources.

лл	ESOL.AL.1.8 Interpretation: Hypotheses The learner will be able to create hypotheses and predict outcomes.

лл	ESOL.AL.1.9 Language Processes: Specifics and Generalizations The learner will be able to comprehend, develop, and use specifics and generalizations.

лл	ESOL.AL.1.10 Solution: Creative The learner will be able to invent solutions to problems using thinking techniques (e.g., metaphors, analogies, models, brainstorming, and role-playing).

лл	ESOL.AL.1.11 Logical Relation The learner will be able to analyze logical relationships in arguments and detect fallacies.

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.AL.2.1 American Literature: Diversity The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze American literature representing diversity (e.g., literary movements and periods).

л	ESOL.AL.2.2 Reading Behaviors: Personal The learner will be able to read poems, short stories, essays, novels, magazines, newspapers, charts, graphs, and technical documents for pleasure and self-improvement.

л	ESOL.AL.2.3 Print/Nonprint: Literature The learner will be able to use a variety of print and non-print resources (e.g., films, recording, theater, computer databases) as parts of the study of literature.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.4 Early Writers The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections from the early writers such as Native Americans, Colonials, Puritans, and Planters.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.5 Age of Reason/Rationalism The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections from the Age of Reason/Rationalism.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.6 Age of Romanticism The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections from the Age of Romanticism.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.7 Age of Realism The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections representing Realism.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.8 Modernism The learner will be able to read, discuss and analyze literary selections representing Modernism.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.9 Post-Modernism The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections representing Post-modernism.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.10 Contemporary Period The learner will be able to read, discuss, and analyze literary selections from the Contemporary Period.

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.11 American Literature: Analysis The learner will be able to develop an understanding of the effect of history on American literature (e.g., literary movements and periods).

ллл	ESOL.AL.2.12 Theme: Major Influences The learner will be able to understand major cultural, religious, philosophical, and political influence on the literature of a given period or culture.

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ESOL.AL.2.13 Analyzing: Use/Literary/Terms
The learner will be able to apply knowledge of literary terms such as alliteration, allusion, aphorism, flashback foreshadowing, hyperbole, imagery, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, pun, refrain, regionalism or local color, repetition, rhyme, simile, stream of consciousness, symbol to works of literature (M).

л	ESOL.AL.2.14 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.

л	ESOL.AL.3.1 Reading: Expand/Literature The learner will be able to acquire new vocabulary through reading and vocabulary study; demonstrate progress through writing.

лл	ESOL.AL.3.2 Strategies: Unfamiliar Word The learner will be able to define unfamiliar words by using appropriate structural analysis skills including prefixes, suffixes, root words, and context clues.

лл	ESOL.AL.3.3 Author Choices: Words/Analysis 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.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.1 Subject-Verb: Agreement The learner will be able to use correct subject-verb agreement - with compound subject, with intervening phrases, with inverted subject and verb, with pronoun and antecedent.

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.2 Pronoun: Usage The learner will be able to demonstrate proficiency in pronoun usage and pronoun-antecedent agreement.

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.3 Usage: Verb/Agreement/Tense The learner will be able to choose correct verb forms, including: tense consistency, formation of perfect tense, irregular verbs.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.4 Homonym: Identify The learner will be able to identify homonyms, misused words, double negatives, double comparisons, and commonly confused words.

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.5 Noun: Plural Forms The learner will be able to use correct plural forms: irregular plurals, constant singular plurals.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.6 Parallel Structure: Identify The learner will be able to identify parallel structure.

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.7 Verb-Active/Passive The learner will be able to distinguish between active and passive voice of verbs.

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ESOL.AL.4.8 Edit: Language Conventions
The learner will be able to use correct punctuation: end punctuation, commas (direct and indirect quotation), introductory subordinate clause, subordinate clause between subject and verb, introductory participial phrase, introductory phrase between subject and verb, subordinate adjective clause, items in a series, conjunction joining independent clauses, compound subjects and predicates, restrictive phrases and clauses, appositive, words in direct address, parenthetical expressions (R).

лл	ESOL.AL.4.9 Semicolon: Conjunctive Adverb The learner will be able to correctly use a semicolon with independent clauses without a conjunction and independent clauses with a conjunctive adverb.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.10 Colon: List/Use The learner will be able to use a colon with items in a list.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.11 Apostrophe: Use The learner will be able to use apostrophes with singular and plural possessives, indefinite pronoun to show possession, plurals of nouns.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.12 Capitalization: Use Correctly The learner will be able to use capitalization correctly: proper adjectives, proper nouns, names of high school courses, seasons of the year, relationships (direction as region), words in titles.

лл	ESOL.AL.4.13 Double Letter: Consonants The learner will be able to double consonants in -ing forms.

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ESOL.AL.4.14 Spelling: Misspelled Words
The learner will be able to correctly spell commonly misspelled words: athlet-athlete, congradulations -congratulations, collage-college, definately-definitely; diffrent/diferent- different, enviroment/environment; excercise/exercise; Februay- February, goverment-government; kindergarden/ kindergarten; knowlege-knowledge; libary-library, restraunt-restaurant; seprate-separate; sincerly/sincerely; sophmor-sophomore; supose-suppose; truely/truly; (will include rules-based spelling) (R).

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.15 Development of Language The learner will be able to learn about the development of American English, including the influences of other languages.

ллл	ESOL.AL.4.16 Language Usage The learner will be able to understand that language usage is shaped by social, cultural, and geographical 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.

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ESOL.AL.5.1 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, analyses, critiques), and business applications (letters, memos, applications).

ллл	ESOL.AL.5.2 Purposes: Elements/Discourse The learner will be able to write in narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository modes of writing with emphasis on exposition.

лл	ESOL.AL.5.3 Audience: Consider/Writing The learner will be able to will adapt a writing style to various audiences.

лл	ESOL.AL.5.4 Word Choice: Specific The learner will be able to use appropriate word choice: replace generic words with more specific, meaningful words.

л	ESOL.AL.5.5 Literary Term: Writing/Use The learner will be able to write and speak critically about literature.

ллл	ESOL.AL.5.6 Types of Essays The learner will be able to write a variety of essays including a persuasive/argumentative, extended literary analysis, and definition.

ллл	ESOL.AL.5.7 Purpose/Method of Writing The learner will be able to recognize different purposes and methods of writing; identify a writer's tone and point of view.

л	ESOL.AL.5.8 Word Processing: Text/Write 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.AL.6.1 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.

л	ESOL.AL.6.2 Critical Listening: Speaker The learner will be able to recognize a speaker's purpose and identify verbal and nonverbal components of communication (body language, facial expression, gestures).

л	ESOL.AL.6.3 Discussion: Solve Problems The learner will be able to work as a team member to solve problems.

ллл	ESOL.AL.6.4 Purposes: Speaker's/Recognize The learner will be able to identify the purpose of a speaker and be aware of the techniques a speaker is using to affect an audience.

ллл	ESOL.AL.6.5 Discussion The learner will be able to engage in discussion as both speaker and listener, critically interpreting, analyzing, and summarizing ideas.

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.

лл	ESOL.AL.7.1 Processes: Communicate Meaning 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, and evaluate similar presentations by others.

лл	ESOL.AL.7.2 Usage: Audience/Language/Use The learner will be able to adapt words and strategies to various situations and audiences.

л	ESOL.AL.7.3 Speaking: Appropriate Loudness The learner will be able to speak so others can hear and understand.

л	ESOL.AL.7.4 Draw Conclusion The learner will be able to defend conclusions rationally.

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.

л	ESOL.AL.8.1 Mass Media: Representations The learner will be able 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.AL.9.1 Research Skills 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.

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ESOL.AL.9.2 Process: Electronic/Sources
The learner will be able to engage in the research process using appropriate print, electronic and interview sources and will cite sources properly according to a standard style sheet (MLA, APA, or others).

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