Program Transfer Goals

Students will be able to independently…

• Read and respond to a range of increasingly complex texts in various genres and purposes.
• Write in various genres for various audiences in order to explain, entertain, argue, guide, and challenge.
• Generate open ended questions and seek answers through critical analysis of texts, media, interviews, and/or observations.
• Communicate effectively in writing, discourse, and presentation based on purpose, task, and audience.
• Analyze an author’s/speaker’s message through their use of figurative language, sentence structure, and tone.
• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society (text to self, text to text, text to world).

Fall Semester

Unit Name

Unit Focus

Unit 1: Literature and Me

In this unit, students will focus on reading literary text and literary writing, including short answer responses.  Students will consider the following questions:

• What can literature reveal about people?
• How does literature impact who I am and who I will become?
• How do we create meaningful stories?

Unit 2: Fact v. Fiction

In this unit, students will focus on reading informational text and informational writing.  Students will consider the following questions:

• How does an author present factual information?
• When is it important for an author to be unbiased?
• How can an author’s personal experience impact their writing?
• How does an author’s organizational pattern impact the reader’s understanding of a text?

Spring Semester

Unit Name

Unit Focus

Unit 3: Making an Argument  

In this unit, students will focus on reading argumentative text and argumentative writing, including correspondence.  Students will consider the following questions:

• What makes an argument believable?
• What would discredit someone who is making an argument?
• When is it important for an author to be unbiased?

Unit 4: Literature In Our World

In this unit, students will focus on reading literary text and literary writing .  Students will consider the following question:

• What makes a story endure across time and cultures?
• How does culture affect a story?

• How does literature transcend time?
• How does literature from the past shape the world today?