Grade 10 - Communicate Ideas and Information (Presenting and Valuing)

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

• demonstrate pride and satisfaction in using language to formulate and express personal positions
• create communications for an increasing range of audiences and purposes including pleasure and entertainment
• create a variety of academic, technical, and personal communications, including debates, research and technical reports, oral and multimedia presentations, poetry, and personal essays

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Teach students how to write a bibliography and citation correctly and have them include bibliographies and citations in all their writing that is based on research.
• Ask students to use advertising techniques to write persuasive articles, advertisements, or reviews. Invite them to present their work to the class in print, video, or audio form.
• Have students prepare for debates by researching sources that support their opinions and beliefs. Tell them that they should also research opposing information and arguments so that they are better able to counter the opposing team's arguments. Prior to the debates, discuss the importance of body language, tone of voice, inflection, pronunciation, and other aspects of public speaking.
• Have groups of students each design a multimedia presentation on a controversial topic drawn from a piece of literature. Ensure that each student in each group is responsible for retrieving and presenting material from a different medium (e.g., TV, print, the Internet, CD-ROM).
• Ask groups of students to prepare class presentations on their solutions to issues related to the school or community. Ensure that each group divides the presentation tasks equally and involves all group members in the final presentation. During the presentations ask the rest of the class to keep mind maps of the ideas in their notebooks. Then ask students to share these with the class and present alternative solutions. Have each presentation group record the information and use it along with their own ideas to construct an action plan that can be presented to decision makers.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Provide students with criteria and rating systems for debates. While the criteria will vary slightly with each debate's formality and format, in general the debater should:
  • be easy to hear and understand
  • state the key points clearly
  • provide support for each key point, logically developed through specific and relevant details, examples, and explanations
  • focus on the issue: all material should be relevant to key points
  • address counter-arguments and alternative views
  • use a variety of persuasive strategies appropriate to the audience and judges (e.g., analogies, definitions of the issues in terms favourable to the speaker's position, appeals to the interests and feelings of the audience)
  • conclude with a concise, effective summary of key points
• Collaborate with students to develop criteria and rating scales for specific formats, reviewing samples of similar work and 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 are you trying to accomplish? What is essential if you are to accomplish your purpose?
  • What are the key features and conventions of this format?
  • What characteristics are common to the samples of effective similar work that you have analysed?
• When students submit portfolios or collections, have them include covering letters introducing their work and highlighting their favourite selections or features.

RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES

• 3-D English
• The Art of Teaching Writing
• As You Like It
• Beyond Chalk & Talk
• Centrestage
• Desktop Publishing
• Develop Your English Skills
• Family Issues
• Global Reading Safari
• Julius Caesar
• Literature Circles
• The Little, Brown Handbook
• Marking Success
• The Merchant of Venice
• Mini Anthologies - Grade 9/10
• NTC Vocabulary Builders
• On Common Ground
• Prism of Poetry
• The Project Book
• Romeo and Juliet
• Speaking for Success
• Speechcraft
• Stories from Asia
• Transitions
• The Whole Language Catalogue
• The Writer's Workshop
• Writing for Results

• Race to Freedom

• In Perspective

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