English 11 - Communicate Ideas and Information (Presenting and Valuing)

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

• demonstrate pride and satisfaction in using language to create and express ideas and personal viewpoints
• create a variety of communications using different tones and voices to evoke emotions, influence, persuade, and entertain
• create a variety of academic, technical, and personal communications, including multi-genre presentations, articles, formal reports, advertising and persuasive materials, résumés, and research papers

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Have students design and develop multimedia advertising campaigns directed toward their peers that include audio, visual, and print materials to promote favourite short stories or novels. Invite a panel of peers to provide responses as to the effectiveness of the campaigns.
• Invite students to prepare live or video presentations for the class illustrating how to prepare or deliver a speech for a particular audience.
• Have students view a variety of election campaign speeches. Engage them in a discussion by prompting them with questions such as: How are the speeches alike or different? Which were successful and which unsuccessful? What were some of the techniques the politicians used? Run an election campaign in the class to have students elect a class representative. Have students write campaign speeches to persuade their classmates to vote for them.
• Identify with students a number of simple problems that families, classes, or schools might have (e.g., the garbage pickup was missed, a bank account was overdrawn, an assignment was late, a library book was missing). Ask students to prepare technical reports addressed to people in authority explaining how the errors occurred and how the problems will be rectified. Invite a review panel to comment on the acceptability of the explanation and solution in each report.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• When students write persuasive essays, criteria such as the following can provide the basis for a performance rating scale:
  • thesis clearly states position
  • argument is logically developed through examples, explanations, and specific, relevant details
  • sustains focus on thesis
  • takes a tentative stance; considers alternative views
  • uses rhetorical devices
  • reaches a logical conclusion, supported by the argument that has been developed
  • clearly written; follows the conventions of expository writing
• When students prepare material in specific written, oral, or other formats, collaborate with them to develop guidelines and criteria for scoring and self-assessment by posing questions such as the following:
  • Who is your audience? What do you know about them? What features will appeal to them? What special considerations do you need to make for them?
  • What is your purpose? What features are essential if you are to accomplish your purpose?
  • What are the key features and conventions that characterize the medium and format you have chosen?
• From time to time, have students review and reflect on the written, oral, and visual presentations they have created. (This may be part of a portfolio review or self-assessment.) Give each student three stickers. Have students place the stickers beside three ideas, excerpts, or works of which they are particularly proud. Provide opportunities for them to share their choices with partners or small groups and receive responses to their choices from the teacher through written or oral comments.

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

• 3-D English
• The Act of Writing
• The Art of Teaching Writing
• The Business of English
• The Canadian Writer's Market
• Coming of Age
• The Communications Handbook
• Discovering Poetry
• Family Issues
• Global Matters
• Horizons
• Literature Circles
• The Little, Brown Handbook
• Macbeth
• NTC Vocabulary Builders
• Poetry Alive
• The Prentice Hall Reader
• Print Out
• Process and Practice
• The Project Book
• The Prose Reader
• Richard III
• Speechcraft
• The Stolen Party
• Technically-Write!
• Twelfth Night
• World Literature
• World Literature, Signature Edition
• Worlds in Small
• The Writer's Workshop
• Writing Clear Essays
• Writing for Results
• Your Voice and Mine

• In Perspective

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