Student Learning Outcomes
Learning Area |
Student Learning Outcome |
Content knowledge |
Demonstrate content knowledge by answering questions about specific content (subject matter) from units studied and incorporate this knowledge when speaking or writing about the content topic. |
Reading |
Preview a textbook chapter to successfully predict content and organization, annotate several paragraphs in a textbook to locate and identify essential elements, including topic, main idea, topic sentences, details and transitions, paraphrase an article by restating main ideas, and outline an article or section of a textbook to highlight the relationship between ideas and their relative importance. |
Writing |
write papers that utilize one or more critical thinking skill (i.e. summarizing, responding, evaluating, and synthesizing). |
Note-taking |
Listen for the relationship between ideas, structural clues, main ideas and key words. Use symbols, abbreviations, and a system of hierarchy. Utilize a note-taking system such as the Cornell method. |
Language |
Use appropriate language to support summary response, evaluation, and synthesis, and for polite requests in spoken and written communication. |
Rhetorical Thought Pattern |
Demonstrate the ability to identify the features and language characteristics of summary response, evaluation and rhetorical thought patterns and be able to organize ideas in communication using these patterns. |
Important Dates:
Topic: In this unit, we have focused on the topic of Media Literacy. In this paper, you will evaluate two television advertisements and two visual ads for credibility and strength of argument.
Media literacy skills help us to:
Procedure:
Step 1: Listening and Note-taking
Step 2: Reading and Note-taking
Step 3: Summarize and describe
Step 4: Evaluate the credibility and persuasion.
Step 5: Respond
Step 6: Writing the draft of CTP 2 (Evaluative Response)
Step 7
Step 8: Formatting your paper and submitting it
Assessment: The Critical Thinking Paper is worth 13.3% of the final course grade. The instructor will use a rubric to evaluate the papers. Areas of evaluation will include application of course content, task-related skills, and language use.