Content Standard: G. Stylistic and Rhetorical Aspects of Writing and Speaking
Students will use stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing and speaking to explore ideas, to present lines of thought, to represent and reflect on human experience, and to communicate feelings, knowledge, and opinions.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Write stories with an identifiable beginning, middle, and ending.	Students will be able to use the Spandel trait of organization.			.	.	.
2. Write stories that include major events, develop settings, and deal with problems and solutions.	Students will be able to use the Spandel trait of ideas.			.	.	.
3. Write pieces and deliver oral presentations that use structures appropriate to audience and purpose.	Students will be able to use the Spandel trait of voice. Students will demonstrate proper techniques of oral presentation.			.	.	Power Points eye contact voice projection gestures posture (balance) pacing
4. Write essays and deliver oral presentations which identify a clear topic and reliably support that topic.	Students will be able to effectively use the Spandel traits of ideas and organization.			.	.	topic sentence paragraph indent supporting details
5. Write for both public and private audiences.	Students will keep a personal journal/diary Letter writing (friendly, business) Email			.	.	.
6. Write and deliver oral presentations that achieve distinct purposes (e.g., to summarize, to narrate, to inform, to explain).	Students will understand different purposes of oral presentations.			.	.	persuade entertain summarize narrate inform explain
7. Write pieces and make remarks that use descriptive language to clarify, enhance, and develop ideas.	Students will be able to effectively use the Spandel trait of word choice.			.	.	figurative language simile metaphor hyperbole personification assonance consonance
8. Write pieces and deliver oral presentations that include a variety of sentence structures appropriate to the purpose.	Students will be able to use the Spandel trait of sentence fluency.			.	.	.
9. Write pieces that use a variety of transitional devices (i.e., phrases, sentences, paragraphs).	Students will be able to use the Spandel traits of sentence fluency and organization.			.	.	phrases sentences paragraphs subordinating conjunctions (glue words)
10. Deliver oral presentations that use a variety of strategies of address (e.g., eye contact, hand gestures, voice modulation, changes of rhythm).	Students will use the Spandel trait of voice. Students will demonstrate proper techniques of oral presentation.			.	.	Power Point eye contact voice projection gestures posture (balance) emotion (inflection) rhythm