English 

• Composition: GENERAL STANDARD 20: Consideration of Audience and Purpose

Students will write for different audiences and purposes. (See also Standards 3, 6, and 19.)

• Composition: GENERAL STANDARD 21: Revising

Students will demonstrate improvement in organization, content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice (diction) in their compositions after revising them.

• Composition: GENERAL STANDARD 22: Standard English Conventions

Students will use knowledge of standard English conventions in their writing, revising, and editing.

• Composition:  GENERAL STANDARD 23: Organizing Ideas in Writing

Students will organize ideas in writing in a way that makes sense for their purpose.

•  Media: GENERAL STANDARD 27: Media Production*

Students will design and create coherent media productions (audio, video, television, multimedia, Internet, emerging technologies) with a clear controlling idea, adequate detail, and appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and medium. (See also Standards 18, 24, 26, and the Theatre Standards of the Arts Curriculum Framework.) 

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