STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY

Students who successfully complete a balanced and effective English Language Arts program will be able to perform the following activities:

Use strategies and processes to improve their language use:

• by planning, adjusting, evaluating, and refining the language they use for different purposes and audiences.

Use language to acquire, interpret, and apply information:

• by identifying, collecting, or selecting information and ideas;
• by analyzing, synthesizing, and organizing information to discover related ideas, concepts, or generalizations; and
• by applying, extending, and expanding on information and concepts.

Use language to critically analyze and evaluate information:

• by assessing the validity and accuracy of information and ideas determining the value of information and ideas; and
• by developing criteria and evaluating the quality, relevance, and importance of information and ideas.

Use language to express aesthetic and personal responses:

• by responding to personal situations and events in selections and to personal situations and events;
• by responding to the personal, social, cultural, and historical significance of selections or personal experiences; and
• by responding critically and creatively to selections or personal experience.