English/Language Arts
The English Language Arts (ELA) program for a globally-focused school is designed to ensure that students are both globally competent and college ready. To achieve those goals, students are asked to understand, analyze, evaluate, embrace, harness, and create the multiple literacies they will face in the 21st century.
The ELA program hinges on opportunities given to students that allow them to explore and investigate multiple genres and text structures on their way to generating their own questions and responses to these texts. The students will experience being a part of a community of readers and writers while they make sense of the enduring understanding for ELA: Language shapes and reflects human experience.
The performance outcomes and rubric developed to measure students’ knowledge and skills have four domains:
Within each of these categories are specific skills, knowledge, and dispositions that will guide teachers in their decision-making for what should be taught and how it can be taught within an ELA class. Tasks that reflect the outcomes will be used to evaluate whether a student has met the college-ready standards of the ELA curriculum.
The curriculum is anchored by four globally-focused themes that are organized with essential questions to focus the reading and writing students experience:
Within the ELA class, students will develop their voice as writers, use a variety of communication tools for advocacy, and create original material that reflects their understanding of the global community.
The ELA program hinges on opportunities given to students that allow them to explore and investigate multiple genres and text structures on their way to generating their own questions and responses to these texts. The students will experience being a part of a community of readers and writers while they make sense of the enduring understanding for ELA: Language shapes and reflects human experience.
The performance outcomes and rubric developed to measure students’ knowledge and skills have four domains:
- Investigate the World
- Recognize Perspectives
- Communicate Ideas
- Take Action
Within each of these categories are specific skills, knowledge, and dispositions that will guide teachers in their decision-making for what should be taught and how it can be taught within an ELA class. Tasks that reflect the outcomes will be used to evaluate whether a student has met the college-ready standards of the ELA curriculum.
The curriculum is anchored by four globally-focused themes that are organized with essential questions to focus the reading and writing students experience:
- Identity
- Power
- Justice
- Change
Within the ELA class, students will develop their voice as writers, use a variety of communication tools for advocacy, and create original material that reflects their understanding of the global community.
The goals of a globally-focused English Language Arts (ELA) program is to ensure that students are both globally competent and college ready. To achieve these goals, students are asked to understand, analyze, evaluate, embrace, harness, and create the multiple literacies so that they can take action and impact the 21st century.