TEACHER ELEMENTS

STUDENT ELEMENTS

GRADE 10

GRADE 10

THE TEACHER SHALL:

THE STUDENT SHOULD:

NEW CONCEPTS

NEW CONCEPTS

Teach sentence conciseness.

Avoid repetition and wordiness.

Reduce clauses to phrases and phrases to words when possible.

Avoid a wordy style (verbosity).

Teach ways to avoid monotony in writing.

Avoid joining sentences together with "so." Vary sentence length.

Begin sentences with participial phrases, infinitive phrases, clauses, appositives, modifiers, and prepositional phrases.

Teach clear thinking to avoid fallacious reasoning.

Identify fallacious reasoning (e.g., in advertisements, letters to the editor, student papers).

Provide opportunities for students to write many types of multi-paragraph compositions in correct final form.

Write an informal outline (before writing the composition) and a formal outline (while writing the composition) which includes the purpose (to inform, to persuade, to inspire, or to entertain), thematic statement, introduction, body, and conclusion. Demonstrate competency in pre-writing, drafting, revising, and proofreading skills in writing essays.

Write persuasive essays with well-developed elaboration strategies (e.g., facts, figures, reasons, advantages, disadvantages, anecdotes, historical background), avoiding fallacious reasoning.

Write a full research paper complete with correct research-writing format and the use of a minimum of four blended sources, including periodicals.

Write a comparison/contrast essay.

Write a categorical (classificatory) essay.

Update personal essay document.

Teach students to utilize most informational materials which are found in the library.

Utilize most of the informational materials which are found in the library.