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English I Honors
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

English I Honors A

Language

• Demonstrate an understanding of the eight parts of speech including their troublesome aspects.

• Use a variety of techniques to correct sentence fragments.

• Combine a set of simple sentences into a single compound or complex sentence.

• Recognize the correct placement of end marks with quotation marks.

• Select the appropriate word in frequently confused pairs.

• Identify commonly used foreign words and phrases.

Communication

• Select the most appropriate strategies for participating in a team.

Writing

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

• Choose the transitional device that appropriately connects sentences or paragraphs within a writing sample.

• Select a vivid word to strengthen a written description.

• Select the thesis statement in a writing sample or passage.

Logic

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

• Choose a logical word to complete an analogy.

Informational Text

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

• Use the graphics of informational and technical passages to answer questions.

Literature

• Identify and analyze examples of idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or pun in poetry or prose.

• Differentiate among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

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

• Identify and analyze how the author reveals character.

• Determine the significance/meaning of a symbol in poetry or prose.

• Identify and analyze standard literary elements.

• Identify the common stated or implied theme in a series of passages.

• Demonstrate knowledge of sound and metric devices.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of lyric poetry, epics, sonnets, dramatic poetry, and ballads.

• Identify and analyze basic elements of plot.

Work Skills

• Turn in assignments on time following the requirements of the assignment.

• Come to class prepared.

• Develop and practice college study habits.

• Appropriately participate during class discussion.

• Demonstrate appropriate respect during class time, especially during peer presentations.

• Demonstrate academic integrity.

English I Honors B

Language

• Use commas correctly with appositives and introductory words, phrases, or clauses.

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

Communication

• Distinguish between a summary and a paraphrase.

• Distinguish between a critique and a summary.

Writing

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

• Choose the transitional device that appropriately connects sentences or paragraphs within a writing sample.

• Select a vivid word to strengthen a written description.

• Select the most precise word to provide clarity appropriate to audience and purpose.

Research

• Select the research topic with the highest degree of focus.

• Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.

• Evaluate the reliability and credibility of sources for use in research.

• Evaluate the validity of Web pages as sources of information.

• Determine which statement presents an opposing view from those stated on a Web page.

• Identify information that must be cited or attributed within a writing sample.

Logic

• Evaluate text for fact and opinion.

• Analyze cause-effect relationships in text.

• Select the persuasive device.

• Distinguish the strongest or weakest point of an argument within a passage.

Media

• Draw an inference from a non-print medium.

• Select the type of conflict represented in a non-print medium.

• Infer the mood represented in a non-print medium.

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

Literature

• Differentiate among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

• Identify the common stated or implied theme in a series of passages.

• Identify the elements of drama.

• Identify classical, historical, and literary allusions in context.

Work Skills

• Turn in assignments on time following the requirements of the assignment.

• Come to class prepared.

• Develop and practice college study habits.

• Appropriately participate during class discussion.

• Demonstrate appropriate respect during class time, especially during peer presentations.

• Demonstrate academic integrity.

English I Honors C

Creative Writing

• Develop creative outlet through additional writing experiences.

• Develop imaginative writing.

• Create various pieces of creative writing.

• Explore various writing styles to promote self expression.

• Practice a variety of diction, sentence structure, and format.

• Develop fluency, logic, clarity, and creativity.

• Write for a variety of audiences.

• Explore diverse modes and genres of writing.

• Utilize evaluation and revision skills.

• Focus on the steps of the process writing.

• Write in a variety of modes for a variety of audiences and purposes.

• Use available technology in the creative process.

EOC

• Review skills for EOC exam.

• Practice taking EOC multiple choice exam.

Communication

• Deliver effective oral presentations.

Work Skills

• Turn in assignments on time following the requirements of the assignment.

• Come to class prepared.

• Develop and practice college study habits.

• Appropriately participate during class discussion.

• Demonstrate appropriate respect during class time, especially during peer presentations.

• Demonstrate academic integrity.

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