Eloquence

Appendix: Virginia Standards of Learning

11.1 The student will make informative and persuasive presentations.

• a) Gather and organize evidence to support a position.
• b) Present evidence clearly and convincingly.
• c) Address counterclaims.
• d) Support and defend ideas in public forums.
• e) Use grammatically correct language, including vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• f) Monitor listening and use a variety of active listening strategies to make evaluations.
• g) Use presentation technology.
• h) Collaborate and report on small-group learning activities.

11.2 The student will examine how values and points of view are included or excluded and how media influences beliefs and behaviors.

• a) Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge in ways others can view, use, and assess.
• b) Use media, visual literacy, and technology skills to create products.
• c) Evaluate sources including advertisements, editorials, blogs, Web sites, and other media for relationships between intent, factual content, and opinion.
• d) Determine the author's purpose and intended effect on the audience for media messages.

11.5 The student will read and analyze a variety of nonfiction texts.

• a) Use information from texts to clarify understanding of concepts.
• c) Generalize ideas from selections to make predictions about other texts.
• d) Draw conclusions and make inferences on explicit and implied information using textual support.

11.6 The student will write in a variety of forms, with an emphasis on persuasion.

• a) Generate, gather, plan, and organize ideas for writing to address a specific audience and purpose.
• b) Produce arguments in writing developing a thesis that demonstrates knowledgeable judgments, addresses counterclaims, and provides effective conclusions.
• c) Organize ideas in a sustained and logical manner.
• d) Clarify and defend position with precise and relevant evidence elaborating ideas
• clearly and accurately.
• e) Adapt content, vocabulary, voice, and tone to audience, purpose, and situation.
• f) Revise writing for clarity of content, accuracy and depth of information.
• g) Use computer technology to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writing.