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Standard Number: LAS 1.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Listening and Speaking Strategies Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations that convey clear and distinct perspectives and demonstrate solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.1
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Comprehension
Recognize strategies used by the media to inform, persuade, entertain, and transmit culture (e.g., advertisements; perpetuation of stereotypes; use of visual representations, special effects, language).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.10
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Evaluate when to use different kinds of effects (e.g., visual, music, sound, graphics) to create effective productions.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.11
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications
Critique a speaker's diction and syntax in relation to the purpose of an oral communication and the impact the words may have on the audience.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.12
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications
Identify logical fallacies used in oral addresses (e.g., attack ad hominem, false causality, red herring, overgeneralization, bandwagon effect).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.13
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications
Analyze the four basic types of persuasive speech (i.e., propositions of fact, value, problem, or policy) and understand the similarities and differences in their patterns of organization and the use of persuasive language, reasoning, and proof.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.14
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications
Analyze the techniques used in media messages for a particular audience and evaluate their effectiveness (e.g., Orson Welles' radio broadcast "War of the Worlds").
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.2
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Comprehension
Analyze the impact of the media on the democratic process (e.g., exerting influence on elections, creating images of leaders, shaping attitudes) at the local, state, and national levels.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.3
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Comprehension
Interpret and evaluate the various ways in which events are presented and information is communicated by visual image makers (e.g., graphic artists, documentary filmmakers, illustrators, news photographers).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.4
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use rhetorical questions, parallel structure, concrete images, figurative language, characterization, irony, and dialogue to achieve clarity, force, and aesthetic effect.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.5a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Distinguish between and use various forms of classical and contemporary logical arguments that include inductive and deductive reasoning.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.5b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Distinguish between and use various forms of classical and contemporary logical arguments that include syllogisms and analogies.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.6
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use logical, ethical, and emotional appeals that enhance a specific tone and purpose.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.7
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use appropriate rehearsal strategies to pay attention to performance details, achieve command of the text, and create skillful artistic staging.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.8a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use effective and interesting language that include informal expressions for effect.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.8b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use effective and interesting language that include standard American English for clarity.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.8c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use effective and interesting language that include technical language for specificity.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 1.9
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
Use research and analysis to justify strategies for gesture, movement, and vocalization, including dialect, pronunciation, and enunciation.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.1a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver reflective presentations that explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns, using appropriate rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.1b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver reflective presentations that draw comparisons between the specific incident and broader themes that illustrate the speaker's beliefs or generalizations about life.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.1c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver reflective presentations that maintain a balance between describing the incident and relating it to more general, abstract ideas.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.2a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral reports on historical investigations that use exposition, narration, description, persuasion, or some combination of those to support the thesis.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.2b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral reports on historical investigations that analyze several historical records of a single event, examining critical relationships between elements of the research topic.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.2c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral reports on historical investigations that explain the perceived reason or reasons for the similarities and differences by using information derived from primary and secondary sources to support or enhance the presentation
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.2d
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral reports on historical investigations that include information on all relevant perspectives and consider the validity and reliability of sources.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.3a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral responses to literature that demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas of literary works (e.g., make assertions about the text that are reasonable and supportable).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.3b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral responses to literature that analyze the imagery, language, universal themes, and unique aspects of the text through the use of rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, persuasion, exposition, a combination of those strategies).
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.3c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral responses to literature that support important ideas and viewpoints through accurate and detailed references to the text or to other works.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.3d
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral responses to literature that demonstrate an awareness of the author's use of stylistic devices and an appreciation of the effects created.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.3e
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver oral responses to literature that identify and assess the impact of perceived ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.4a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver multimedia presentations that combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.4b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver multimedia presentations that select an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.4c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver multimedia presentations that use the selected media skillfully, editing appropriately and monitoring for quality.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.4d
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Deliver multimedia presentations that test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.
State: California
Standard Number: LAS 2.5
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Listening and Speaking
Description: Recite poems, selections from speeches, or dramatic soliloquies with attention to performance details to achieve clarity, force, and aesthetic effect and to demonstrate an understanding of the meaning (e.g., Hamlet's soliloquy "To Be or Not to Be").
State: California
Standard Number: R 1.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.
State: California
Standard Number: R 1.1
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Vocabulary and Concept Development
Trace the etymology of significant terms used in political science and history.
State: California
Standard Number: R 1.2
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Vocabulary and Concept Development
Apply knowledge of Greek, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon roots and affixes to draw inferences concerning the meaning of scientific and mathematical terminology.
State: California
Standard Number: R 1.3
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Vocabulary and Concept Development
Discern the meaning of analogies encountered, analyzing specific comparisons as well as relationships and inferences.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Readings in Literature, Grades Nine Through Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.1
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Structural Features of Informational Materials
Analyze both the features and the rhetorical devices of different types of public documents (e.g., policy statements, speeches, debates, platforms) and the way in which authors use those features and devices.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.2
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.3
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Verify and clarify facts presented in other types of expository texts by using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.4
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Make warranted and reasonable assertions about the author's arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.5
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze an author's implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.
State: California
Standard Number: R 2.6
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Expository Critique
Critique the power, validity, and truthfulness of arguments set forth in public documents; their appeal to both friendly and hostile audiences; and the extent to which the arguments anticipate and address reader concerns and counterclaims (e.g., appeal to reason, to authority, to pathos and emotion).
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent themes. The selections in Recommended Readings in Literature, Grades Nine Through Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.1
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Structural Features of Literature
Analyze characteristics of subgenres (e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.2
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.3
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author's style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposes or both.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.4
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.5a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of American literature representing a variety of genres and traditions that trace the development of American literature from the colonial period forward.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.5b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of American literature representing a variety of genres and traditions that contrast the major periods, themes, styles, and trends and describe how works by members of different cultures relate to one another in each period.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.5c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of American literature representing a variety of genres and traditions that evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and settings.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.6
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze the way in which authors through the centuries have used archetypes drawn from myth and tradition in literature, film, political speeches, and religious writings (e.g., how the archetypes of banishment from an ideal world may be used to interpret Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth).
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.7a
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that contrast the major literary forms, techniques, and characteristics of the major literary periods (e.g., Homeric Greece, medieval, romantic, neoclassic, modern).
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.7b
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that relate literary works and authors to the major themes and issues of their eras.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.7c
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Narrative Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors that Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and, settings.
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.8
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Literary Criticism
Analyze the clarity and consistency of political assumptions in a selection of literary works or essays on a topic (e.g., suffrage, women's role in organized labor). (Political approach)
State: California
Standard Number: R 3.9
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Reading
Description: Literary Criticism
Analyze the philosophical arguments presented in literary works to determine whether the authors' positions have contributed to the quality of each work and the credibility of the characters. (Philosophical approach)
State: California
Standard Number: W 1.0
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing
Description: Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students' awareness of the audience and purpose and progression through the stages of the writing process.
State: California
Standard Number: W 1.1
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing
Description: Organization and Focus
Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments.
State: California
Standard Number: W 1.2
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing
Description: Organization and Focus
Use point of view, characterization, style (e.g., use of irony), and related elements for specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.
State: California
Standard Number: W 1.3
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing
Description: Organization and Focus
Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples.
State: California
Standard Number: W 1.4
Grade(s): 11,12
Discipline: English Language Arts
Strand: Writing
Description: Organization and Focus
Enhance meaning by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy; the incorporation of visual aids (e.g., graphs, tables, pictures); and the issuance of a call for action.
State: California