Topics+of+Study


 * Students will know and be able to do the following: **
 * Analyze writing from a varying time periods (fiction, informational non-fiction, drama, letters, speeches, editorials, blogs, advertisements, historical documents and other media)
 * Locate important details and facts that support ideas, arguments, or inferences in increasingly challenging texts and substantiate with textual examples that may be in other sources.
 * Distinguish between valid and invalid arguments
 * Analyze how writers develop arguments and judge the effectiveness of those approaches
 * Distinguish between fact and opinion, basing judgments on evidence and reasoning.
 * Recognize, criticize and avoid logical fallacies in argument and persuasion
 * Recognize appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos, analyze how they enhance argumentative and persuasive essays, and use all three appeals effectively in original writing
 * Craft first drafts, revise, and then polish final drafts of persuasive papers that articulate a clear position, support assertions using rhetorical devices, including personal anecdotes and appeals to emotion or logic; and developing arguments using a variety of methods.
 * Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research and/or personal experience
 * Write thoughtfully about their own process of composition
 * Revise a work to make it suitable for a different audience;
 * Write for a variety of purposes;
 * Produce expository, analytical and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate evidence drawn from primary and/or secondary sources, cogent explanations and clear transitions;
 * Evaluate and incorporate reference documents into researched paper;
 * Demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writings