According to Literacy Partners: A Principal's Guide to An Effective Library Media Program for The 21st Century, students in grades 9-12 should be able to:
NINTH GRADE (9th)
ACCESS
• Skim or scan written material to determine meaningful information. #
• Know sources for legal information.
• Locate clarification for the meaning of foreign phrases and archaic words. #
• Use sampling techniques to determine opinion on a topic.
• Recognize current event sources available in other countries and continents.
• Know a variety of technology resources useful in lifelong learning and career pursuits.
• Identify graphs that represent function data in a table.*
• Identify criteria used to select award winning publications and productions.
• Define geographic terms.*
EVALUATE
• Determine the pattern used by an author in writing an essay. #
• Recognize techniques used in mass media to sway opinion. #
• Relate headlines to specific events.*
• Analyze a political map.* #
• Draw conclusions from graphic organizers. * + #
• Compare reports on the same event from various news sources.*
• Recognize cultures and genres represented in selections from world literature. +
• Recognize the use of literary elements.+
• Determine when argument and propaganda are used.+ #
• Recognize that language changes and develops.+
USE
• Identify and follow directions that are implicit or embedded in a passage. + #
• Practice listening and viewing skills in a variety of situations.+
• Take notes from materials read, viewed, or heard. + #
• Make a prediction from a statistical sample.*
• Create a mnemonic device to recall specific information. + #
• Outline information from materials read, viewed, or heard.
• Demonstrate responsible use of others’ ideas.+
• Use appropriate sources to determine literary and writing styles. +
• Use appropriate sources to interpret parliamentary rules and procedures. + #
TENTH GRADE (10th)
ACCESS
• Locate information related to governments and laws. #
• Become familiar with the organizational system used to classify government documents.
• Select and use government documents appropriate to an assignment. #
• Locate information and examples related to the culture of various eras or periods. #
• Relate landmark documents and speeches to historical periods. #
• Identify methods of communication and the characteristics of each.
• Recognize Alabama authors and their contributions from statehood to the 1900s.+ #
• Recognize symbols used to convey information.+
• Use resources that assist writers (thesaurus, special dictionaries, manuals, etc.).
• Identify main ideas and supporting details from non fiction reading. + #
EVALUATE
• Identify the type of written selection by analyzing its characteristics.
• Explain the relationship of copyright law to the ethical use of resources.
• Recognize written characteristics of laws and treaties.
• Determine an author’s use of imagery, symbolism, dialogue, and plot to express meaning.+ #
• Recognize elements of plot in print form as well as in movies and plays. + #
• Recognize fallacies of logic in written, oral, and visual presentations. #
• Identify use of slang, dialect, and jargon in materials.
• Identify paragraph structure used in a specific essay. #
• Draw conclusions based on information in one or more passages or from graphic organizers. * #
• Determine cause and effect.*
• Infer cause and effect stated or implied in a passage. #
USE
• Develop presentations using graphic organizers.
• Paraphrase information. #
• Organize for orderly informal debates.+
• Develop audiovisual aids to use in presentations.
• Sequence events. * #
• Share information available from the Alabama Department of Archives and History. #
ELEVENTH GRADE (11th)
ACCESS
• Read selections written after 1900 by American authors and critiques of those works. + #
• Determine the history of a word, initialism, or acronym.
• Locate the text of significant speeches delivered during the 20th Century.
EVALUATE
• Evaluate effectiveness of literary devices in poetry and prose. + #
• Recognize the style of selected American authors (1900 to the present). + #
• Differentiate among various points of view. + #
• Compare similar information from different regions or time periods. #
• Discern the organizational pattern and transitional devices in written material and in oral or visual presentations. + #
• Recognize statements that summarize a passage. #
USE
• Employ critical listening skills in class discussions, lectures, and speeches—noting aspects that affect meaning. + #
• Demonstrate appropriate interview skills. +
• Produce graphs, charts, and models that clarify and explain complex information.
• Sequence historical events.
• Generalize a statement from related headlines.
TWELFTH GRADE (12th)
ACCESS
• Locate technical and statistical information (i.e., stock reports, computer manual, tax form, etc.) using electronic and print formats.
• Identify slogans, maxims, quotations by time period and purpose.
• Formulate strategies to locate, select, and evaluate research materials. +
• Identify landmark documents associated with our country’s government and development. #
• Identify types of information available from local agencies.
EVALUATE
• Analyze a series of statements.*
• Make an inference from a poem.*
• Draw a conclusion about the writings of an economic philosopher.*
• Recognize tone, diction, imagery, figurative language, and mood through inferential and interpretive reading, listening, and viewing.+ #
• Evaluate literature for its historical significance, moral significance, and universality. +
• Explain the relationship of individual rights, property rights, and privacy rights.
USE
• Develop an analogy for a given situation.
• Interpret and evaluate oral and written material. +
• Develop criteria by which information can be judged as relevant or irrelevant.
• Use available modern technology for a variety of communication purposes. +
• Document information using a consistent format.
• Synthesize information from primary and secondary sources for research. +
• Develop a chart comparing statistical data.
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* Stanford Achievement Test, 9th Edition
# Alabama High School Graduation Exam
+ Alabama Course of Study: Language Arts, 1999
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