12th Grade English

12th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
[RI] Reading Information Strand
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

ELA-12.RI.07 Analyze and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visuals, videos, tables, charts, and graphs), including written text.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

• I can define various formats of information (e.g., visual, quantitative, text).

Reasoning Targets

• I can evaluate multiple sources in difference media or formats to find quality information in order to answer a question or solve a problem.
• I can analyze each source of information checking for relevance and reliability.
• I can answer or solve the question or problem, citing and synthesizing information from multiple sources.

Skills (Performance) Targets

• I can formulate a driving question or problem that demands research.
• I can select appropriate source material to use to answer a question or solve a problem. 
• I can develop organizational strategies (e.g., note taking, comparison charts, Venn Diagrams, thinking maps) to integrate multiple sources of information.
• I can integrate and present information from multiple sources to address a question or solve a problem.

Product Targets

• I can write a research paper, complete with cited and synthesized sources and a works cited page.
• I can create a presentation that answers a question or solves a problem by synthesizing various credible sources.

Measurement

of Progress

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (often taught in connection with speaking and writing)

• RI 11-12.7 Analyze and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visuals, videos, tables, charts, and graphs), including written text.

• RI 11-12.8 Delineate and evaluate a text’s argumentative reasoning and persuasive techniques, including emotional appeals and establishing credibility.

• RI 11-12.9 Analyze how texts within and/or across time periods treat similar topics, addressing their themes, purposes, and rhetorical strategies.

In addition to expectations of proficiency, student provides consistent evidence of in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught and expected.

The student can

• when addressing a question or solving a problem,

  • evaluate multiple sources in different media or formats

  • choose details that offer the best support.

  • integrate reliable information within writing and speaking.

• assess the logic or rationale in key foundational documents.

• delineate and evaluate the reasoning and persuasive techniques within a text

• analyze how texts within and/or across time periods treat similar topics; consider theme, purpose and rhetoric.

There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes as the student:

• evaluates, chooses, and integrates reliable information within writing and speaking.

• identifies logic or rationale in various documents.

• identifies reasoning and persuasive techniques.

• determines themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

• recognizes or recalls specific terminology that relates to literature, such as:

  • rhetoric, delineate, supporting evidence, persuasive techniques, ethos, pathos, logos

However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.