Unit 3 Outcomes

Students will know…

  • strategies to accomplish their purpose and engage their audience (3.1.2)
  • the breadth and depth of prior knowledge will inform the questions used to determine information needs and to guide the collection of required information (3.1.2)
  • potential strategies and technologies for gathering, generating and recording information (3.1.2)
  • that content needs to be appropriate for the audience and situation (4.1.3)
  • the significance of having a personal vocabulary and repertoire of stylistic choices   (4.2.3)
  • the effects of their own use of stylistic techniques and rhetorical devices (4.2.3)

Students will be able to…

  • Reflect on and describe strategies to determine the depth and breadth of inquiry or research and to identify the purpose, audience and potential forms of presentation (3.1.1)
  • Describe the purpose of inquiry or research and the scope of the inquiry or research topic; identify the target audience; and identify the potential form for the presentation of inquire or research findings, when applicable (3.1.1)
  • Refine the purpose of inquiry or research by limiting or expanding the topic as appropriate (3.1.1)
  • Develop an appropriate inquiry or research plan that will address the topic and satisfy contextual requirements – purpose, audience and situation – and requirements of presentation form (3.1.2)
  • Describe and address audience factors that affect text creation (4.1.1)
  • Select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text (4.1.2)
  • Identify and use structures consistent with form, content and purpose when creating texts (4.1.2)
  • Develop supporting details, by using developmental aids appropriate to form and purpose (4.1.3)
  • Incorporate effective examples from personal experience, concepts and ideas from exploration, and finding from inquiry and research into created texts, when appropriate (4.1.3)
  • Assess the beginning of a text in progress, and revise it as needed to establish purpose (4.2.2)
  • Review the organizational components of a text in progress and revise them as needed to strengthen their effectiveness as units of thought or experience (4.2.2)
  • Review the closing of a text in progress, and revise it as needed to strengthen its relationship to purpose and to establish a sense of developed understanding (4.2.2)          
  • Assess transitions and transitional devices, and revise them as needed to strengthen coherence (4.2.2)
  • Expand vocabulary and repertoire of stylistic choices (4.2.3)
  • Use words and expressions appropriately (4.2.3)
  • Use a variety of sentence patterns and structures appropriately and effectively (4.2.3)
  • Use handbooks and other tools, including electronic tools, as resources to assist with text creation (4.2.4)
  • Know and be able to apply spelling conventions consistently and independently (4.2.4)
  • Identify and be able to use parts of speech correctly (4.2.4)
  • Identify parts of the sentence in own and others’ texts (4.2.4)
  • Review and revise texts in progress to correct common sentence faults (4.2.4)
  • Know and be able to use common sentence structures correctly (4.2.4)
  • Pay particular attention to conventions when using unfamiliar vocabulary, complex syntax, & sophisticated rhetorical devices (4.2.4)