English Language Arts 1202 (Applied)

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Growing as a practical speaker and listener: communicating clearly in everyday and workplace settings, listening critically, and interacting with sensitivity and respect.

• 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 practical reader and viewer: selecting and understanding everyday and media texts, researching real questions, and responding to texts personally and critically.

• 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 functional writer and representer: writing to clarify and reflect, creating clear texts for real purposes and audiences, and refining them to be effective.

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

• Creating texts for purposes and audiences

• Demand and process writing with the six traits