A. The student will develop narrative, expository, persuasive, and technical writings.

  Apply knowledge of prewriting strategies.

  Elaborate the central idea in an organized manner.

  Choose vocabulary and information that will cause a reader to perceive images and tone.

  Use clauses and phrases to embed context into sentences.

  Revise writing for clarity.

  Edit final copies to ensure correct use of elements, such as homonyms, pronoun-antecedent

  agreement, subject-verb agreement, and verb tense consistency.

  Edit final copies to ensure correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and format.

  Evaluate, revise, and edit writing through self-evaluation and by conferring with others.

  Use available technology.

B. The student will write in a variety of formats including stories, poems, plays, essays, and research projects.

C. The student will use the writing process fluently and expand the use of writing to learn across the curriculum.

D. The student will keep reflective, dialogue, and double-entry journals and write drafts to understand and record experiences and ideas.

E. The student will demonstrate identifiable personal writing styles and write for both familiar and distant audiences.

F. The student will edit final written products for effectiveness.

G. The student will publish in a variety of formats, such as stories, poems, plays, and reports and other technical writing across the curriculum.

H. The student will evaluate effectiveness gained by adjusting use of formal and informal language

according to setting, purpose, and audience.

I. The student will select and use a variety of forms in writing.

  Vary writing to fit given purpose and audiences.

  Compose personal writing (thank you notes, letter of request, etc.) in conventional forms.

  Compose in other genres, such as research, poetry, stories, songs, essays, articles, and drama

  scripts.

  Practice written forms in which conventions may be waived, such as poetry, advertisements,

  certain examples of fiction, and dialogue.

J. The student will assimilate and synthesize information from various sources and convey it clearly to others.

K. The student will write a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts for sustained periods of time.

L. The student will expand use of quality literature to enhance personal writing styles.

V. Research

A. The student will apply knowledge of resources and conduct research in preparing written and oral presentations.

  Use print and electronic sources to locate books and articles.

  Use a thesaurus to select more exact descriptive, specific, or effective vocabulary for writing.

  Use graphic organizers to organize information.

  Use note-taking, annotating, multiple drafts, and list of sources.

  Cite reference sources.

B. The student will assimilate and synthesize information from various sources and convey it clearly to others.

  Use strategies to organize information and analyze topics.

C. The student will compare information sources and note the relevance or purpose of each for specific research projects.

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