ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS LEARNING GOALS AND EXPECTATIONS (ODE)

• Speaking - Use standard language formats and complex transitions to clarify relationships among events and ideas; analyze and critique others' arguments; participate in conversations/discussions or oral presentations; develop presentations to communicate research; introduce/develop claims/informational topics with facts, details, and evidence.

• Reading - Determine the meaning of figurative language, some idiomatic expressions; identify main ideas/summarize key points; analyze reasoning and rhetoric; conduct research based on sources; and demonstrate comprehension.

• Writing - Produce coherent narratives with details using compound and complex sentences; use a variety of language structures in context-specific messages; construct written claims with reason in paragraph form; participate in written exchanges on a range of topics, texts and issues; introduce and develop informational and argumentative topics with facts, details and evidence; cite information and reference sources correctly.

• Listening - Determine meanings of academic and content-specific word forms, figurative language, and idiomatic expressions; demonstrate comprehension by participating in a range of discussion topics; infer the intent and analyze the speaker's development of themes and ideas; analyze the reasoning and use of rhetoric in persuasive speech to determine whether the evidence is sufficient to support the claim.