WRITING

Students will: 

conduct research and find relevant sources to use by evaluating sources critically and effectively; develop well-reasoned and relevant ideas that are supported with reliable evidence analyze writing prompts and produce relevant responses that address a given prompt fully  write coherent, logical, organized, and well-developed academic essays by following stages of process writing  incorporate citations accurately and effectively in writing by identifying relevant information from different texts and synthesizing them, by paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting directly from outside sources, and by giving correct references in APA style

READING

Students will practice reading a text:

strategically to identify relevant sources for their purpose and eliminate the irrelevant ones: predict content by looking at the title and subtitles, reading the abstract, introduction & conclusion, skimming and scanning the text to comprehend it fully (identifying main/supporting ideas, identifying tone, purpose, and audience, recognizing patterns of organization and cohesive devices, text annotation, guessing meaning from context) critically by identifying inferred meanings, arguments, and attitude, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and evaluating information to make critical judgments  to use it as support in writing by evaluating and synthesizing information from multiple texts 

SPEAKING

Students will practice communicating effectively in academic contexts by:

participating in discussions,   expressing and justifying their opinions in whole class/group discussions,   reacting to different ideas to agree/disagree/refute/justify  analyzing and synthesizing information from different sources to justify their opinions  giving short individual or group presentations 

LISTENING

Students will practice:

listening for a specific purpose,   listening for main ideas and supporting ideas/details,   listening for implied ideas,   listening and note-taking,   recognizing the relationship between a recording/video and a reading text,   reflecting on and reacting to ideas in a recording/video,   evaluating ideas in a recording/video to use them as support in their own writing