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Explore Puritanism, Transcendentalism, and other literary periods framing the work of American writers. Use reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to understand a variety of texts, including biographical sketches, fiction, poetry, speeches, and diary entries. Understand how language, historical events, literary periods, personal perception, and cultural context shape the meaning of a text Make connections between life and literature, explore identity, and ponder intriguing philosophical questions through analytical reading, questioning, listening and writing Understand and apply the steps to clear, logical writing (prewriting, drafting, and revising) to compose a variety of texts, including fiction, expository essays, persuasive essays, and autobiographical pieces for authentic audiences Evaluate both fiction and nonfiction literary works by writing a literary analysis, an interpretive essay, or an evaluative essay. Prepare multimedia presentations that demonstrate knowledge of visual design, technology and audience awareness. Recognize vocabulary words and know how to find the meaning of unfamiliar words. Speak and introduce relevant, facilitating information, ideas and opinions in discussions and formal speech situations. Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the features of informational texts and documents in a variety of academic areas. Adjust stress, volume and inflection to provide emphasis to ideas or influence audience during informal discussion. Explore a range of sources (primary and secondary) and expert opinions including interviews with experts. Develop an argument that uses the most effective format for purpose and audience, address readers'/listeners' problems, uses convincing, properly cited evidence and clearly states a position using rhetorical strategies. Create a persuasive text that accurately and honestly addresses multiple perspectives by using language and rhetorical devices and accurately documented, valid, reliable primary and secondary sources. Write persuasive texts to influence the attitudes or actions of a specific audience on specific issues. Identify and advance a clear thesis statement or controlling idea with the intent of affecting the attitudes or actions of a specific audience. Utilize a variety of methods to advance the argument such as facts, expert opinions, quotations or expressions of widely held beliefs. Use a variety of formatting techniques (headings, graphics) and graphic organizers (outlines, lists, visuals) to aid reader understanding. Learn new vocabulary and recognize vocabulary words and know how to find the meaning of words the students don't understand; infer word meaning through the identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships; identify and understand key vocabulary used in contemporary informational texts; determine the meaning of grade-level technical academic English words in multiple content areas. Use and understand a variety of media, and evaluate the quality of material. Evaluate the objectivity of coverage of the same event in various types of media. Evaluate how messages presented in contemporary media reflect social and cultural views in ways different from traditional texts. Evaluate the role of media as well as various texts. Create a multi-media presentation that demonstrates an understanding of a specific topic or issue, or teaches others about it. Produce a multimedia presentation with graphics, images, and sound that appeals to a specific audience and synthesizes information from multiple points of view. Use a variety of sentence structures to add interest to a presentation, and edit writing using the conventions of language. Demonstrate consideration of the validity and reliability of all primary and secondary sources used. Synthesize information, ideas and opinions to determine relevancy. Distinguish between essential and nonessential information, and fact and opinion. Identify and analyze the structure of contemporary informational texts. Write an analysis of an author’s use of stylistic or rhetorical devices. Provide textual evidence, direct quotations, to support analysis of text. Use stylistic aspects of composition effectively, including sentence variety. Become familiar with employment-related documents. Anticipate questions and gather resources needed to respond. Maintain a record of resources. Write a personal résumé and other work-related documents. Listen responsively to a speaker and acknowledge the contributions of others. Speak using skills appropriate to formal speech situations. Use appropriate organizational structures supported by facts and details. Translate (from text to graphic or from graphic to text) complex factual, quantitative, or technical information. Analyze the structure of informational materials. Select and refine a topic for research and locate information using appropriate sources and strategies. Select sources appropriate to the breadth and depth of the research. Organize and write a report based on research, including effective introductions, conclusions and paragraphs. Revise drafts to clarify meaning and achieve specific rhetorical purposes; improve style, word choice and sentence variety; in response to feedback. Edit, proofread, and publish final drafts.

Unit 6: The Art of Persuasion
Section A: Speaking and Listening
Section B: The Art of Debate
Section C: Investigations in Persuasive Communication


Section D: Persuasive Speaking and Writing

Unit 7: Media and Its Impact on History
Section A: Types of Media
Section B: Evaluating Media
Section C: Media’s Impact on Opinion
Section D: My Media Project

Unit 8: Contemporary Issues in American Communication
Section A: Contemporary Media in America
Section B: Contemporary Messages in Print
Section C: Assessing Contemporary Messages in Communication
Section D: Independent Exploration of Messages in the Media

Unit 9: Communication in the Workplace
Section A: Skills for Finding a Job
Section B: Going to Work
Section C: Communicating at Work
Section D: Written and Verbal Work Communication

Unit 10: Independent Project
Section A: Exploring, Planning, and Researching a Topic
Section B: Organizing Your Writing and Composing Your Drafts
Section C: Revising and Editing
Section D: Publishing

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