Sandra K. Friday
Language Arts English Standard 4.0 Listening
Students will develop strategic listening skills by interpreting and constructing meaning from auditory cues.
While students will read poetry and prose and engage in creative writing routinely in this unit, it focuses, largely, on listening to the voices of the narrators and protagonists in the poems and prose that we will read for the purpose of discerning from the diversity of these voices the feelings and attitudes that they express. Through listening to these voices, and identifying the range in attitudes and feelings of the people or characters who own them, my students will have the opportunity to discover the attitudes and feelings behind their own voices, and experiment with their newfound awareness. Therefore, students will, among other skills, establish a purpose for listening, construct meaning through initial understanding and interpretation, and will compare and contrast similar characters and their problems.