Create mental images to deepen understanding
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Grade 12 English Language Arts and Reading Video Lessons
Watch 9 dedicated curriculum video lessons.
Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts
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Determine the meaning of foreign words or phrases used frequently in English such as ad nauseum, in loco parentis, laissez-faire, and caveat emptor
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Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently
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Discuss and write about the explicit and implicit meanings of text
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Engage in meaningful and respectful discourse when evaluating the clarity and coherence of a speaker's message and critiquing the impact of a speaker's use of diction, syntax
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Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts
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Formulate sound arguments and present using elements of classical speeches such as introduction, first and second transitions, body, conclusion, the art of persuasion, rhetorical
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Use print or digital resources to clarify and validate understanding of multiple meanings of advanced vocabulary
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