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ELA: Grade 11 - SPEAKING
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Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
	11.1.S.1	Prepare and give presentations to a variety of audiences on a range of informational topics	Who Pays the Price When a Sea Disappears? A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel "Persepolis": A WebQuest on Iran
	11.1.S.2	Use figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, to make new ideas and complex information clearer to listeners	Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
	11.1.S.3	Anticipate and respond to the listener’s points of view	Galileo and the Inevitability of Ideas Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events Audience Analysis Inventory: Student Interactive
	11.1.S.4	Give directions and explain complex processes	Writing Technical Instructions
	11.1.S.5	Ask and respond to probing and challenging questions to acquire information	Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of "All Quiet on the Western Front" Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an "Ordered Place"? Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job Placement Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps The Comic Book Show and Tell Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment
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Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
	11.2.S.1	Use devices such as voice, tone, volume, pitch, rate, body language, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition to create an emotional or aesthetic response	Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Mini-lesson Put That on the List: Collaboratively Writing a Catalog Poem Persuasive Techniques in Advertising Speaking Poetry: Exploring Sonic Patterns Through Performance Exploring "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
	11.3.S.1	Express opinions or make judgments about ideas, information, experiences, and issues in literary, scientific, and historic articles, in public documents, and in advertisements	Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an "Ordered Place"? Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps Deceptive Advertising: Crossing the Line America's New Birth of Freedom: Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
	11.3.S.2	Articulate personal opinions to clarify stated positions, persuade or influence groups, or state preferences about topics	I Remember That Book: Rereading as a Critical Investigation
	11.3.S.3	Present reasons, examples, and details from sources such as reviews of books, plays, and interviews to defend opinions and judgments	Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire" Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job Placement
	11.3.S.4	Modify content and presentation strategies on the basis of audience response during presentation	Pygmies: Getting Right to the Point
	11.3.S.5	Respond to constructive criticism	Latino Poetry Blog: Blogging as a Forum for Open Discussion
	11.3.S.6	Use visuals and technology to enhance presentation	Designing Effective Poster Presentations Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events Star-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age Creating Better Presentation Slides through Glance Media and Billboard Design
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Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
	11.4.S.1	Speak informally with familiar and unfamiliar people, individually and in group settings	Defining Literacy in a Digital World Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events Beyond "What I Did on Vacation": Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing And the Question Is...Evaluating the Validity of a Survey And the Question Is... Writing Good Survey Questions Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive The Importance of Titles: From Big Blank Space to Small Good Thing Language and Power in "The Handmaid's Tale" and the World
	11.4.S.2	Respect the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the listener
	11.4.S.3	Use social communication in workplace settings to foster trust and build goodwill
	11.4.S.4	Respond respectfully	Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive
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Literacy Competencies
	11.LC.S.0	Speaking A literacy competency strand for grades 9-12 Speaking is under development and will be posted when available.	Discovering a Passion for Poetry with Langston Hughes


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