English Language Arts 20-2

Unit 1: Exploring Ideas & Perspectives

Deliberate thinking about texts you meet in everyday and workplace life: forming and testing understandings, shaping effects, and choosing strategies to consider new perspectives.

• 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

Reading with more analysis: paraphrasing key messages to describe purpose and audience, relating form to content, and evaluating whether a text does its job.

• Discerning and analyzing 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)

Applied research: scoping an inquiry, selecting and organizing information, judging sources for bias, and forming defensible conclusions.

• 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

Purposeful creation: matching form to purpose, developing content you own, and reviewing the controlling idea for clarity and focus.

• 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