English Language Arts 1201 (Academic)

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Growing as an analytical speaker and listener: sustaining reasoned discussion, listening critically, and interacting with sensitivity and respect at a university-preparation register.

• Strategies for effective informal communication
• Advocating a point of view with evidence
• Questioning to elaborate, clarify, and qualify
• Social conventions and cues for purpose and audience

• Active listening to analyze ideas and information

• Refining presentation skills in formal contexts

• How spoken language influences thoughts and opinions
• Critical listening for reasoning, bias, and reliability

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Growing as a critical reader and viewer: selecting and analyzing demanding texts, inquiring rigorously across sources, and responding personally and critically with evidence.

• Engaging with text forms and selecting for purpose

• Strategies for meaning and comprehension of texts
• How literary and language devices convey meaning
• Critically analyzing texts
• Justifying points of view through connections
• How media and visual devices convey meaning

Unit 3: Writing and Representing

Growing as a purposeful writer and representer: writing to explore and reflect, creating analytical texts for real audiences, and developing effective, well-crafted products.

• Approaches and strategies in inquiry and research
• Evaluating sources for legitimacy and reliability
• Citing researched information with academic integrity

• Creating texts for purposes and audiences

• Demand and process writing with the six traits