Grades 9-10 Speaking and Listening Standards : Comprehension and Collaboration
Essential Questions:
1. What is my role in communication (as a listener, speaker, thinker)?
2. How do sources of information affect the communication process?
3. Why do I adapt my communication to different purposes and audiences?
Essential Vocabulary: rhetoric, fallacy, distorted evidence, quantitative, credibility, active listening, collaboration, collegial, cultural diversity,
justify, qualify, persuasion, diverse perspectives
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 1 for Speaking and Listening: Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations
and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative and culturally diverse discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
a. 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.
b. 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.
c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively
incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when warranted, qualify or justify
their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence and reasoning presented.
Grade 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• relate the current
• that mature discussions
Students will…
discussion to broader
require preparation.
• collaboration
themes.
• engage effectively in
• that discussions are
• collegial
collaborative discussions
evidence based, not
• collaborate with peers to
• cultural diversity
on grade 8 topics.
develop frameworks for
opinion based.
• justify
discussions.
• prepare in advance for
• that discussion-based
• qualify
discussions by reading or
activities
contain
academic
•
qualify their own
• persuasion
studying related materials
understandings.
merit.
• diverse perspectives
and explicitly refer to those
• formulate questions that
findings during the
generate and further
discussion.
discussion.
• follow rules, track progress,
and define personal goals
for collegial discussions.
• pose questions that elicit
Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 •
elaboration and respond to
others’ questions and
comments with relevant
observations and ideas that
bring the discussion back
on topic as needed.
acknowledge new
information expressed by
others and, when
warranted, modify their
own views.
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College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 2 for Speaking and Listening: Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media
and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL.9-10.2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the
credibility and accuracy of each source.
Grades 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• evaluate the credibility and
• that different media types
Students will…
accuracy of sources.
and their messages
• quantitative
influence people in
• analyze the purpose of
• synthesize information
• credibility
different ways.
information presented in
presented via diverse
• active listening
diverse media and formats
formats.
(e.g., visually,
quantitatively, orally).
• evaluate the motives (e.g.,
social, commercial,
political) behind the media
presentation.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 3 for Speaking and Listening: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of
evidence and rhetoric.
SL.9-10.3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, within culturally diverse contexts, identifying any
fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
Grades 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students
will
know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• identify fallacious
• that a speaker’s point of
Students will…
reasoning.
view dictates meaning.
• rhetoric
• identify when irrelevant
• identify exaggerated or
• that speakers use rhetoric
• fallacy
evidence is introduced.
distorted evidence.
for
effect.
• distorted evidence
• delineate a speaker’s
• evaluate a speaker’s point
argument and specific
of view, reasoning, use of
claims.
evidence and rhetoric.
• evaluate the soundness of
the reasoning and
relevance and sufficiency of
the evidence.
X
Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 Grades 9-10 Speaking and Listening Standards : Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Essential Questions:
1. What is my role in communication (as a listener, speaker, thinker)?
2. How do sources of information affect the communication process?
3. Why do I adapt my communication to different purposes and audiences?
Essential Vocabulary: evidence, diversity, style, line of reasoning, purpose, audience, synthesizing, central idea, purpose, theme, diction, syntax
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 4 for Speaking and Listening: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that
listeners can follow the line of reasoning, and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
SL.9-10.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of
reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
Grade 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Students will be able to…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that listeners need
• prepare and present for a
Students will…
• evidence
reasoning and clear
range of purposes,
organization in order to
audiences, and tasks.
• gather pertinent
• diversity
understand a speaker.
information to prepare for
• apply supporting evidence
• style
conversations and
• that presentation of
for development and
• line of reasoning
collaboration.
knowledge
and
ideas
substance.
• purpose
must include
• build on others’ ideas.
• present information and
• audience
organization,
findings coherently and
• use appropriate speaking
• theme
development,
logically.
conventions.
substance, and style.
X
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 5 for Speaking and Listening: Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to
express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
SL.9-10.5 Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance
understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Grades 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will understand…
Students will be able to…
Students
will
know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that they must use digital
• integrate digital media
Students will…
• synthesizing
media responsibly.
effectively into
presentations.
• select or create visual and
• central idea
• that use of digital media in
multimedia displays to
presentations should
• create interesting
• purpose
integrate into presentations
enhance audience
presentations with the use
for the purpose of
understanding.
of digital media to express
clarifying key ideas,
a central idea, theme, or
strengthening claims, and
purpose.
adding interest.
Adoption Date: July 22, 2013 X College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard 6 for Speaking and Listening: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks,
demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
SL.9-10.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See
grades 9–10 Language standards 1 and 3 on pages 56 for specific expectations.)
Grades 9-10 Enduring Understandings
Students will be able to…
Students will understand…
Students will know…
Prior Background Knowledge
Vocabulary:
Required:
• that audience and purpose
• adapt speech to meet a
Students will…
dictate diction and syntax.
• diction
variety of tasks, contexts, or
• adapt speech to meet a
• that speech must be
• syntax
audiences while
variety of tasks, contexts, or
adapted to fit environment
demonstrating use of
audiences while
and purpose.
appropriate syntax, word
demonstrating use of
choice, style, and
appropriate syntax, word
conventions at a 9-10
choice, style, and
grade level.
conventions at an 8th grade
level.
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Adoption Date: July 22, 2013