Students communicate ideas in an organized pattern in a variety of speaking situations. Students analyze, synthesize and evaluate resource materials from a variety of media sources to generate a formal research project, MLA format. They analyze organization patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. Too, students read independently a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature as well as magazines, newspapers, and on-line information. Student writing demonstrates awareness of audience and purpose.
Students write and speak in standard English.
Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce an essay. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies. Students deliver focused and coherent presentations to convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They incorporate gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to audience and purpose. Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion and description.