English Language Arts 10-2

Unit 1: Exploring Ideas & Perspectives

Reading and writing as thinking, applied to everyday and workplace texts: forming your own understandings, shaping effects on purpose, and letting new perspectives widen what you notice.

• Forming tentative understandings
• Experimenting with language, image and structure

• Considering new perspectives
• Expressing preferences and expanding interests
• Setting personal goals for language growth

Unit 2: Comprehending Everyday & Workplace Texts

Practical reading: identifying a text's purpose and audience, recognizing common forms and the devices that make them clear, and evaluating whether a text does its job.

• Discerning context
• Understanding and interpreting content
• Engaging prior knowledge
• Using reference strategies

• Relating form to purpose
• Devices that create clarity and emphasis

• Connecting self, text, culture and milieu
• Evaluating texts with criteria
• Appreciating effectiveness and artistry

Unit 3: Managing Ideas & Information (Inquiry & Research)

Practical research: scoping an inquiry, gathering and organizing information, judging sources, and drawing conclusions that fit the evidence.

• Focusing purpose and form
• Planning and identifying sources

• Selecting, recording and organizing information
• Evaluating sources and detecting bias
• Forming generalizations and conclusions
• Reviewing the inquiry process and findings

Unit 4: Creating Texts

The writing core, applied: choosing a form that fits your purpose, developing content you own, and revising and editing so the work is clear and correct.

• Assessing the text-creation context
• Choosing form, structure and medium
• Developing content
• Producing and presenting the text

• Enhancing thought, support and detail
• Enhancing organization
• Addressing matters of stylistic choice
• Editing for correctness