That's not fair! Examining civil liberties with the U.S. Supreme Court

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 11 — English III

• Goal 2: The learner will inform an audience by using a variety of media to research and explain insights into language and culture.
  • Objective 2.01: Research ideas, events, and/or movements related to United States culture by:
    - locating facts and details for purposeful elaboration.
    - organizing information to create a structure for purpose, audience, and context.
    - excluding extraneous information.
    -providing accurate documentation.
  • Objective 2.02: Examine and explain how culture influences language through projects such as:
    - showing the evolution of forms of communication in the United States (e.g., the Pony Express, telegraph, telephone, fax, e-mail).
    - tracing the development of technology in a particular area such as audio or video recordings, radio, television, and film.
    - demonstrating proficiency in accessing and sending information electronically, using conventions appropriate to the audience.
  • Objective 2.03: Respond to informational texts by:
    - using a variety of strategies for preparation, engagement, and reflection.
    - paraphrasing main ideas and supporting details present in texts.
    -explaining significant connections among the speaker's/author's purpose, tone, biases, and the message for the intended audience.
• Goal 3: The learner will demonstrate increasing sophistication in defining issues and using argument effectively.
  • Objective 3.01: Use language persuasively in addressing a particular issue by:
    - finding and interpreting information effectively.
    - recognizing propaganda as a purposeful technique.
    - establishing and defending a point of view.
    -responding respectfully to viewpoints and biases.
  • Objective 3.03: Use argumentation for:
    - interpreting researched information effectively.
    - establishing and defending a point of view.
    - addressing concerns of the opposition.
    - using logical strategies (e.g., deductive and inductive reasoning, syllogisms, analogies) and sophisticated techniques (e.g., rhetorical devices, parallelism, irony, concrete images).
    -developing a sense of completion.
• Goal 4: The learner will critically analyze text to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.
  • Objective 4.01: Interpret meaning for an audience by:
    - examining the functions and the effects of narrative strategies such as plot, conflict, suspense, point of view, characterization, and dialogue.
    - interpreting the effect of figures of speech (e.g., personification, oxymoron) and the effect of devices of sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia).
    - analyzing stylistic features such as word choice and links between sense and sound.
    - identifying ambiguity, contradiction, irony, parody, and satire.
    - demonstrating how literary works reflect the culture that shaped them.
  • Objective 4.03: Assess the power, validity, and truthfulness in the logic of arguments given in public and political documents by:
    - identifying the intent and message of the author or artist.
    - recognizing how the author addresses opposing viewpoints.
    - articulating a personal response to the message and method of the author or artist.
    -evaluating the historical significance of the work.
• Goal 6: The learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage.
  • Objective 6.02: Discern and correct errors in speaking and writing at a level appropriate to eleventh grade by:
    - reviewing and refining purposeful use of varying sentence types with correct punctuation.
    - reviewing and refining correct pronoun usage, antecedents, and case.
    - refining subject/verb agreement and choice of tense.
    - extending effective use of phrases and clauses. - discussing parts of speech as they relate to writing.
    -editing for correct spelling and mechanics.