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Language Arts - Secondary Curriculum English Language Arts Grades 9-10 (2023)
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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.3:

Use appropriate language, grammar, organization, development, and delivery styles appropriate to purpose and audience for formal or informal contexts.
  • Book Reports
    This lesson plan meets the secondary requirements for The Engish Language Arts Standard Reading: Literature Grades 7-12 with the option of meeting the additional standard of Speaking and Listening. This lesson offers specific details with flexibility for implementation in the classroom. Students can work independently or in groups and be able to create their final book project using technology. 
  • Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
    Students will engage with primary source documents to explore the reasons behind memorializing people in public art. Students will craft written or oral statements to support an argument in favor of installing a statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, Philo T. Farnsworth, or Brigham Young in National Statuary Hall.
  • Elizabethan England & Shakespearean Context Lesson Plan
    Students will dive into research on different aspect of Elizabethan England in order to gain context and background knowlege on William Shakespeare's time prior to a Shakespeare unit in ELA.
  • 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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