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Learning Outcomes for this Assignment:
- Select and use appropriate listening comprehension strategies before, during, and after listening to understand oral texts, including increasingly complex texts
- Select and use appropriate reading comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading to understand texts, including increasingly complex texts
- Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned exchange of ideas
- Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making (e.g., informal consensus, taking votes on key issues, presentation of alternate views), clear goals and deadlines, and individual roles as needed
- Extend understanding of texts, including increasingly complex texts, by making appropriate connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world around them
- Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme
- Determine whether the ideas and information gathered are relevant to the topic, accurate, and compete and appropriately meet the requires of the writing task
- Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence
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