Appendix
Oklahoma State English Language Arts Standards
The ELA standards for grades 9-12 vary little from grade to grade. For simplicity, I include the tenth-grade standards.
9.1.R.3 Students will engage in collaborative discussions about appropriate topics and texts, expressing their own ideas clearly while building on the ideas of others in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class setting. This standard will be addressed as we develop our skills in Socratic seminars about a few of the essential questions the unit addresses.
9.2.R.1 Students will summarize, paraphrase, and generalize ideas, while maintaining meaning and logical sequence of events, within and between texts.
9.3.R.7 Students will make connections between and across multiple texts and provide textual evidence to support their inferences. For both of the above standards, throughout the unit we will look at a variety of texts and media to see how different perspectives might be presented. Students will analyze individual texts and complex relationships between texts, such as between an essay and a political cartoon.
9.6.R.1 Students will use their own viable research questions and well-developed thesis statements to find information about specific topics. Final project work will include students communicating their ideas for solutions to the problems we learn about in the unit. They may write letters, draft legislation or write other kinds of convincing text.
9.7.R.2 Students will analyze the impact of selected media and formats on meaning. Students will analyze their own perceptions of information as presented to them from a variety of formats such as editorial pieces and song lyrics; conversely, they will have to discern the most effective kinds of communication media to get their own messages out to their selected audiences.
9.3.W.2 Students will compose essays and reports to objectively introduce and develop topics, incorporating evidence, and maintaining organized structure and formal style. Final project work will include students communicating their ideas for solutions to the problems we learn about in the unit. They may write letters, draft legislation or write other kinds of convincing text.
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