Assessment

Techniques

Grade 12

Language

Academic Expectation #3

 “Students will learn to seek and use information effectively, creatively, and ethically to construct knowledge.”

Reading/Literature

Academic Expectation #1

 “Students will read actively and critically.” 

Composition

Standards

Academic Expectation #2

“Students will speak and write effectively.” 

Media

Standards:

Academic Expectation  #3  “Students will learn to seek and use information effectively, creatively, and ethically to construct knowledge.”

I.  Teacher-made quizzes and tests

II.  Student self-assessment

(formative assessments, student-generated rubrics)

III.  Performance tests

IV.  Criterion Referenced tests

(student self-selected individual objectives)

V.  Criterion referenced tests based on small group objectives

VI.  Standardized Achievement Tests (SDRT)

VII.  Criterion-referenced achievement tests based on a student’s potential

At the end of English 12, students will be able to:

Write a research paper and cite sources

Use a variety of written forms for a particular audience and purpose

Analyze and evaluate the structure of a piece of literature

Identify and effectively utilize literary terms

Perform an oral/media presentation

Engage with universal themes in a variety of examples of literature and connect them to real life

SAT Review

Standards: 4.26, 4.27

Gruber’s SAT, Ten New SAT’s

Reference Material Use:

1.  Reinforce, expand MLA conventions (footnotes/endnotes, works cited/bibliography)

2.  Reinforce, expand other research paper conventions (formatting, page numbering, spacing of quotations longer than 5 lines, integrating quotations appropriately)

Vocabulary:

Learn and use new words in context

Standards: 4.26, 4.27, 6.10, 6.11

vocabulary in context or from cultural context (scop, kenning, mead); Chaucer’s pilgrims (various social designations, religious practices –relics, pardons)

Vocabulary for the College-Bound Student (prefixes, suffixes, roots)

Literary terms:

Standards: 8.33, 9.7, 10.5, 10.6

Perrine’s Literature Handbook to Literature, glossary to the British Literature anthology (Prentice-Hall) and

EMC Literature and Language Arts: The British Tradition (Maple Level)

Language Development and Language Awareness:

Standards: 5.30, 5.31, 5.32, 5.33

Lord’s Prayer in Old English: Chaucer’s Prologue in Middle English; Shakespeare’s tragedies (Macbeth, Hamlet) excerpts from on-line readings, audio or CD versions

Oral Presentations:

Standards: 3.7, 27.8

Literature: The British Experience and EMC Literature and EMC Language Arts: The British Tradition (Maple Level)

Standards: 8.23, 8.33, 9.7, 11.6, 11.7, 12.6, 16.12

Comprehension:

1. Students will demonstrate comprehension of what they read.

2.  Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, no merely summarize.

3.  Students will make predictions and draw conclusions.

4. Students will state and analyze the advancement of themes for the works they read.

5.  Students will make thematic connections between and among works that they read.

Reading in class:

Beowulf (required)

Grendel

Secret Sharer  

The Handmaids’s Tale or Brave New World

Things Fall Apart

The Things They Carried

Murder on the Orient Express

Heart of Darkness

Beloved

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Song of Solomon

Their Eyes Were Watching God

My Name is Asher Lev

Siddhartha

The Stranger

1984

Drama:

Standards 16.12 (analogues in film and text 17.8, 17.9

Macbeth/Men of Respect or Othello

Hamlet

The Tempest

King Lear/A Thousand Acres

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

A Streetcar Named Desire

Waiting for Godot or No Exit

(APE 2)

Pride and Prejudice

The Return of the Native

The Awakening

Heart of Darkness

The House of Mirth

The Piano Lesson

Poetry:

Standards 14.6

Students will identify poetic devices and determine their function.  Canterbury Tales (required) (selections)  Poetry selections by literary period )ballad, sonnet, lyrical poems, dramatic monologue)

Nonfiction:

Standards 13.26, 13.27

George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” (Xeroxed essay) (required) paired with William Zinsser’s (Xeroxed) essay “Simplicity” (required) Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” in Modern English Writers (required) (bookroom) Karl Popper’s “Utopia and Violence”  (Xeroxed essay) Irving Janis’ essay (Xeroxed) “Groupthink” (both essays required)

Resume, personal essay, college essay, or narrative, as needed

Standard 19.28

Argumentative essay

Standard 19.30, 20.6

Expository essay

Standards 23.14, 23.15, 25.6

Write a research paper or technical paper; incorporate evidence, cite sources.  Refine thesis statement

Standards: 23.14, 23.15, 24.6

Recognize and use satire, parody, allegory, or the pastoral in poetry, prose, drama, short story, essay, or editoral format

Standards: 10.6, 19.29

Create and apply peer generated student rubrics to written and oral presentations

Standards: 3.18, 21.9, 22.10

Write various kinds of poems

Standard: 19.29

Continuation, expansion of Word Publisher, PowerPoint, digital photo integration, intermedia presentations.  In Advanced Placement English 2, for example, students “revise” or revisit a work of literature that they’ve created a contemporary cast of characters, a movie poster, a magazine or newspaper ad, and incorporate appropriate theme music to accompany an oral presentation that explores the work’s conflicts and themes from a current perspective.  Students have created DVD movie trailers and PowerPoint interviews with the main actors to supplement their presentations before the class.