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English II Health Science
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

English II Health Science A

Logic and Literature

• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in text.

• Evaluate text for fact and opinion.

• Indentify examples of idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or pun in poetry or prose.

• Differentiate among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

• Indentify and analyze an author's point of view.

• Identify and analyze how the author reveals character.

• Indentify and analyze basic elements of plot.

• Discern the stated or implied main idea and supporting details of informational and technical passages.

Language

• Recognize and use the appropriate word in frequently confused pairs.

• Know and use correctly Standard English conventions for punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

Communication

• Follow multi-tasked or multi-dimensional instructions to perform a specific role in a task, answer difficult questions, and solve challenging problems.

• Participate productively in self-directed work teams for a particular purpose.

• Contribute relevant and appropriate information and ideas that move the team towards its goals.

• Ask relevant questions.

• Gain the floor in orderly, respectful ways and listen with civility to ideas of others.

• Understand the purpose for working as a team and working according to that purpose.

• Identify the needs of the team and share various resources to respond to those needs.

• Set the ground rules for decision making, either by reaching consensus, following the majority, or some other method.

• Consider the treatment of a particular subject or event in two or more media.

Writing

• Use a variety of strategies when appropriate to provide facts, details, reasons, and examples that support the thesis.

English II Health Science B

Language

• Use sentence-combining techniques, effectively avoiding problematic comma splices, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments.

• Recognize correct subject-verb agreement with intervening elements.

• Recognize a shift in either verb tense or point of view within a writing sample.

• Select correct pronoun usage in a sentence.

• Select correct pronoun-antecedent agreement using collective nouns or indefinite pronouns.

Communication and Media

• Include facts, reasons, details, and examples to support increasingly complex points.

Writing

• Include relevant, specific, and compelling details.

• Choose the most effective order of sentences in a paragraph.

• Demonstrate the ability to combine a set of simple sentences into a longer, more interesting sentence.

• Determine the writer's purpose in a writing sample.

Research

• Use relevant data to support the research topic.

• Evaluate resources for their credibility, reliability, strengths, and limitations, using criteria appropriate to the discipline.

• Summarize, paraphrase, and report research information supporting or refuting the thesis, as appropriate.

• Cite sources using a standard format with a high degree of accuracy.

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