Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.2 D Grade 12 CPI 6

 

Standard: 3.2 Reading

 

Strand: D - Writing for Forms, Audiences, & Purposes (exploring a variety of writing)

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 6 -  The student will compile and synthesize information for everyday and workplace purposes, such as job applications, resumes, business letters and college applications.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·               Secondary students read model college admission essays. Next, they identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of the selected essays, considering how persuasive, sincere, cogent, and well-written the sample texts are. In groups, students use this information to develop a final checklist they can use for their own writing. Using actual application prompts from colleges and universities, the students then draft a college essay that their teacher and peers review using the class-generated checklist.

 

·               The English and Spanish language teachers are working collaboratively on a communications project. They have arranged for students to communicate via the Internet with students who live in Argentina. The students correspond in their second language, exchanging information about their respective communities, schools, and friends.

 

·               Students read and respond to classified ads. They develop an appropriate résumé, fill out an application, and write a cover letter.