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English IV
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

English IV A

Language

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

Communication

• Paraphrase accurately multiple challenging ideas and information presented orally by others.

• Employ presentation skills including good eye contact, correct enunciation, appropriate rate and volume, effective gestures.

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

•  Contribute relevant and appropriate information that moves the team towards its goal.

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

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

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

• Use appropriate decision making processes by coming to a consensus or by following the majority.

Writing

• Write in a variety of modes.

• Create sophisticated, complex work-related text.

• Provide specific ideas, extended examples, and appropriate comparisons to support the main points in a text.

• Include clear and purposeful illustrative material to support ideas effectively in the text.

Literature

• Compare and contrast the elements of two works representing different literary periods.

• Analyze the role and function of characters and determine ways in which the author reveals those characters.

• Analyze the narration and point of view in complex literary texts, in which the narrator and point of view may shift with multiple characters acting as narrators and/or with some characters serving as unreliable narrators.

• Identify and analyze elements of literary drama.

• Analyze works of literature as reflections of historical periods in which they are written.

English IV B

Writing

• Skillful acknowledge source material.

• Cite sources using a standard format appropriate to the discipline with a high degree of accuracy.

• Strategically and skillfully quote, paraphrase, or summarize text, ideas, or other information taken form print or electronic sources.

• Create detailed outline based research, note-taking or some other method of generating content.

Logic and Literature

• Distinguish between evidence which is directly stated and evidence which implied within an argument.

• Indentify and analyze the use of literary elements, such as irony, paradox, symbol, and foreshadowing.

• Comprehend and use figurative language.

Research

• Select reliable resources using appropriate criteria and avoiding the overuse of any one source.

• Skillfully acknowledge source material.

Informational Text

• Summarize, paraphrase, and critique information in text.

• Follow extended multi-tasked or multi-dimensional instructions in complex informational or technical text.

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