Assessment

Peer conference

Discussion

Student writing

Discussion

Written response

Oral explanation

Incorporate vocabulary in writing and speaking.

Written response

Test

Discussion

Quiz

Test

Test essay

Written response

Compare and contrast texts.

Make extensions to related ideas, topics, or information.

Make inferences.

Written response

Group work

Test

Open-ended question

Focus on word patterns.

Use appropriate reading techniques (rhythm, flow, meter, and pronunciation).

Read a variety of genres and texts.

Use textual details.

Make connections among observations.

Written response

Quiz

Test

Assessments

Relate to history and culture.

Make decisions and draw conclusions using established criteria.

Evaluate the text organization and content.

Study guides

Open-ended question

Discussion

Written response

Use media to demonstrate understanding.

Assessments

Recognize authorial techniques.

Note the historic, social, and cultural impact.

Written response

Test

Character analysis

Recognize narrative voice.

Quiz

Identify and analyze figurative language (e.g., personification, simile, allusion, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, and symbolism, apostrophe, paradox).

Recognize the dramatic satiation.

Discussion

Assessments

• varying organizational methods and characteristics
• relevant illustrations
• appropriate dialogue
• conflict
• literary elements
• literary devices
• detailed descriptions
• tone

Project

Graphic organizer

• a well developed topic
• precise language and specific detail
• cause and effect
• various models of development (e.g., definition, analogy)
• primary and secondary sources
• an awareness of one’s audience
• a complex central idea
• clear transitions

Written response

Include pertinent documented evidence.

Develop reader interest.

Address reader arguments and concerns.

Select the method of development to best advance the argument or position to the audience.

Incorporate precise language

Use varied sentence structure

Display coherence through repetition, transitions, and emphasis.

Achieve emphasis through parallelism and antithesis.

Essay test

Written responses within a time frame

Open-ended responses

Assessments

Maintain a single point of view.

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

Utilize the most effective format for purpose and audience.

Write fully developed paragraphs specific to the topic and relevant to the focus.

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

Anchors of samples of good writing

Include an effective introduction and conclusion.

Use repetition, transitions, and emphasis.

Display a balance of generalization and specific details.

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

Use vocabulary appropriate to the purpose and audience.

Establish and maintain voice.

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

style

word choice

sentence variety

paragraph development

clarity of meaning

organization in the context of purpose, audience, and genre

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

Use proper grammar and standard usage.

Vary sentence formations.

Use appropriate mechanics.

Peer conferencing

Writing sample

Teacher-made rubric

Checklist

Research paper

Assessments

Evaluate the relevancy of information, ideas, and opinions.

Take notes.

Notebook

Test

Written response

Make predictions.

Summarize and reflect on content.

Identify and define new words and concepts.

Analyze and synthesize the selections, relating them to other selections heard or read.

Presentation

Writing response

Use effective verbal communication skills to create the desired impression or effect on the audience.

Adjust stress, volume, and inflection to provide emphasis to ideas or to influence the audience.

Peer assessment

Teacher observation

Enhance the discussion by introducing and responding with relevant information, ideas, and opinions.

Listen to and acknowledge the contributions of others.

Paraphrase and summarize as needed.

Present oral readings for a specific purpose.

Conduct interviews.

Engage in informal debate on a particular topic.

Critically evaluate group discussion.

Peer assessment

Checklist

Recognize the impact of media on public opinion.

Utilize a variety of media to design and develop effective presentations for a specific purpose

Assessments

Time line

Discuss the impact of the language on literature.

Identify the differences between British and American English.

Assessments

Discussion

Evaluate the importance and quality of the sources.

Select sources appropriate to the breadth and depth of the research.

Teacher observation

Develop a thesis statement based on the research.

Anticipate readers’ problems or misunderstandings.

Give precise, formal credit for others’ ideas, images, or information using a standard method of documentation.

Write a paper displaying unity, clarity, and effective style.

Show evidence of revising and editions.

Note cards

Rubric

Outline

Teacher conference

• Whole group instruction
• Small group instruction
• Flexible groups
• Cooperative groups
• Peer revising and editing
• Writing workshop
• Teacher and peer conferencing
• Games
• Projects
• Creative activities
• Class discussion
• Modeling process
• Direction instruction
• Self-reflection
• Oral presentations
• Thematic units
• Individual instruction
• Contract grading
• Role playing
• Dramatizations
• Independent study
• Research
• Literature Circles
• Graphic organizers
• Read alouds
• Independent reading
• Guest speakers
• Guided reading
• Review
• Student-guided lessons
• Debate
• Interviews

Supplemental Literature:

• The Story and Its Writer, Sixth Edition, Ann Charters
• The Norton Anthology of Poetry
• A Room with a View, Forster
• Sense and Sensibility, Austen
• The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald
• The Fountainhead, Rand
• Othello/King Lear, Shakespeare
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams
• Hedda Gabler/A Doll’s House, Ibsen
• The Cherry Orchard, Chekov
• 1984, Orwell
• Annie John, Kincaid