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Standards:: 3: Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for critical analysis and evaluation.
Performance Indicators:
1. Develop and present clear interpretations, analyses, and evaluations of issues, ideas, texts, and experiences; justify and explain the rationale for positions, using persuasive language, tone, evidence, and well-developed arguments. Forms of such presentations include oral (class presentations, speeches, and debates), visual (posters, graphs, charts, political cartoons, and illustrations), and written (essays, editorials, movie/textbook/book reviews, position papers, and brochures).
2. Assess, compare, and evaluate the quality of spoken or written texts and visual presentations, using different criteria related to the organization, subject area, and purpose of text. Text types include editorials, letters to the editors, political speeches, illustrations, charts, movie/textbook/book reviews, and advertisements.
3. Recognize and communicate personal and multiple points of view within and among groups, in discussing, interpreting, and evaluating information, make inferences about a writer's or speaker's point of view.
4. Evaluate students' own and others' work, individually and collaboratively, on the basis of a variety of criteria, and recognize how chosen criteria affect evaluation. Criteria include visual presentation; clarity of ideas; logic; originality; comprehensiveness; and use of English vocabulary, grammar, and register.
5. Recognize, explain, evaluate, and analyze how structural features affect readers' and listeners' understanding and appreciation of text. Such features include organization, syntax, repetition of words or ideas, vocabulary, and visuals.
6. Speak and write, using the conventions and features of American English, to effectively influence an audience (e.g., to persuade, negotiate, argue). Such spoken language features include appropriate grammar, precise vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, and presentation strategies. Such written language features include appropriate grammar, vocabulary, correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
7. Engage in collaborative activities through a variety of groupings to discuss, share, reflect on, develop, and express, and to interpret opinions and evaluations about a variety of experiences, ideas, and information. Such groupings include small groups, discussion groups, process writing groups, and cooperative learning groups.
8. Apply self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies using established criteria for effective oral and written presentation and standards for a particular genre (e.g., debate, speech, argument) to adjust presentation and language production to effectively express opinions and evaluations. Such strategies include asking questions, starting over, rephrasing, and exploring alternative ways of saying things.
9. Apply learning strategies to examine, interpret, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a variety of materials. Such strategies include using prior knowledge, graphic organizers, and context cues; planning; note taking; and exploring cognates and root words.