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English III AP
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

English III AP A

Literature

  • Respond to literature in a variety of formats.

  • Develop personal, imaginative, and analytical responses to literature.

  • Assess the effectiveness of strategies used during the reading process.

  • Read independently for a variety of purposes including gathering information and expanding specific knowledge as well as personal enjoyment.

Logic and Communication

  • Critique the effectiveness of rhetorical devices in persuasion.

  • Use evidence from text to support interpretations, to understand relationships, and validate judgments.

  • Participate in group discussion by modeling effective interpersonal skills.

  • Consider and evaluate the perceptions of speakers and listeners by assessing the viewpoints, judgments, and expectations for speakers and listeners.

Writing and Language

  • Use elements of the writing process that are appropriate to the assigned task.

  • Write reflections to analyze the processes used to create his/her own work.

  • Create a written explanation to a selected topic/problem.

  • Write for a variety of purposes including persuasion, narration, description, and exposition.

  • Move effectively through the stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review.

  • Use a variety of prewriting activities appropriate to the assigned task.

  • Proofread a passage for correct punctuation, mechanics, and usage.

Media

  • Compare and contrast the effectiveness or print and non-print media.

English III AP B

Literature

  • Respond to diversity in literary selections.

  • Analyze two or more literary selections for language use, patterns, and dialects.

  • Apply text information to make connections.

  • Apply various reading strategies.

Logic and Communication

  • Gauge the accuracy and reliability of any given set of sources.

  • Support, modify, or refute positions by citing accurate and reliable sources.

  • Judge a variety of oral presentations by evaluating preparation, content, and delivery.

Writing and Language

  • Write persuasively to present valid arguments form an established point of view.

  • Create original works.

  • Support thesis statement with documentation from the text and/or examples from personal experiences.

  • Demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in individual writings.

  • Identify dialects and their contribution to meaning.

  • Support key ideas with well-developed examples, use transitional elements effectively, and vary sentence beginning, lengths, and structures.

  • Practice various means of evaluation and revision.

Media

  • Examine and respond to the effects of media on the ideas, morals, and values of individuals, communities, and the world.

English III AP C

Literature

  • Participate in a variety of oral reading experiences.

  • Critique the significance of literary elements.

Logic and Communication

  • Produce and respond to expository, analytical, and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate evidence drawn from primary and secondary sources, cogent explanations, and clear transitions.

  • Gather information from the Internet, periodicals, books, CD ROMS, and non-print sources to produce and present formal research projects.

  • Make presentations using or showing an understanding of volume, pitch, rate, diction, inflections, gestures, and body language to facilitate communication in a variety of situations.

Writing and Language

  • Convey in a writing passage a deliberate style through word choice, specified point of view, tone, and sentence structure.

  • Critique the effectiveness of figurative language.

  • Use summaries, paraphrases, direct quotations, internal documentations, and works cited pages as appropriate.

  • Cite quotations, paraphrases, and summaries correctly in the research project.

Media

  • Analyze image relative to text and as text itself.

  • Create and present products incorporating multimedia components for specific audiences and purposes.

  • Use a variety of print and non-print media to research a topic and evaluate the information in order to create a presentation.

  • Use a variety of media sources to create and present information.

  • Examine production elements in both print and non-print media for the purpose of interpreting, clarifying, and communicating information.

  • Use electronic media and other audio-visual media to conduct research and to create and present researched-based products.

 

 

 

 

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