LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

English IV

Goal 1: The learner will express reflections and reactions to print and non-print text as well as to personal experience.

Objective 1.02. Respond to texts so that the audience will:
- empathize with the voice of the text.
- make connections between the learner's life and the text.
- reflect on how cultural or historical perspectives may have influenced these responses.
- examine the learner's own response in light of peers' responses.
-recognize features of the author's use of language and how the learner relates these features to his/her own writing.

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