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Language Arts - Secondary Curriculum English Language Arts Grades 9-10 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Speaking and Listening (9-10.SL)

Students will learn to collaborate, express and listen to ideas, integrate and evaluate information from various sources, use media and visual displays as well as language and grammar strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt to context and task.

Standard 9-10.SL.2:

Interpret and evaluate the credibility of multiple sources of information presented in various formats and media to solve problems and make informed decisions.
  • Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
    Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as ?generative AI.?
  • One Tin Soldier Rides Away
    This episode of This American Life that discusses mob mentality and how easily we can all fall victim to it. English Language Arts teachers can use It with many different texts to explore the concept of mob mentaility. For example, it can be used when teaching Lord of the Flies.
  • Research and Develop a Topic
    Students learn how to research and develop a topic for a student choice project.
  • Team Working Session #2: Interview Prep and Scripting
    Students prepare for interviews by reviewing what they know about the sources, conducting pre-interviews, creating a list of questions for the recorded interviews, and making a shot list. They will also identify locations for the interviews and decide which members of the group will conduct the interviews.


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