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California Language Arts Content Standards

The following are the California Language Arts Content Standards to be met completing both webquests:

1.0 Writing Strategies
Students write coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students' awareness of the audience and purpose and progression through the stages of the writing process.

Research and Technology

• 1.6 Develop presentations by using clear research questions and creative and critical research strategies (e.g., field studies, oral histories, interviews, experiments, electronic sources).
• 1.7 Use systematic strategies to organize and record information (e.g., anecdotal scripting, annotated bibliographies).
• 1.8 Integrate databases, graphics, and spreadsheets into word-processed documents.

Evaluation and Revision

• 1.9 Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and genre.

 

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

2.4 Write historical investigation reports:

• a. Use exposition, narration, description, argumentation, exposition, or some combination of rhetorical strategies to support the main proposition.
• b. Analyze several historical records of a single event, examining critical relationships between elements of the research topic.
• c. Explain the perceived reason or reasons for the similarities and differences in historical records with information derived from primary and secondary sources to support or enhance the presentation.
• d. Include information from all relevant perspectives and take into consideration the validity and reliability of sources.
• e. Include a formal bibliography.
     

For the extended webquest only the following will also be addressed:

2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.

2.2 Deliver oral reports on historical investigations:

• a. Use exposition, narration, description, persuasion, or some combination of those to support the thesis.
• b. Analyze several historical records of a single event, examining critical relationships between elements of the research topic.
• c. Explain the perceived reason or reasons for the similarities and differences by using information derived from primary and secondary sources to support or enhance the presentation.
• d. Include information on all relevant perspectives and consider the validity and reliability of sources.
  

2.4 Deliver multimedia presentations:

• a. Combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images.
  

 

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created 23 June 2002 by S. Hayes
revised January 24, 2005