ELA21.12.15

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

ELA21.12.15
Analyze digital texts and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:

Digital texts, such as online academic journals, social media, and blogs, have various subjects, appropriate occasions, intended audiences, purposes, and tones.
A credible source is free from bias and supported with relevant evidence.
Strategies to evaluate digital text based on a set of identified criteria.

Skills

Students are able to:

Identify and analyze digital texts' subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.
Evaluate the effectiveness of a digital text's subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.

Understanding

Students understand that:

It is important to evaluate the credibility of digital text.
Digital texts will focus on different subjects, be used on different occasions, are created with different intended audiences, have different purposes, and a variety of tones.
The effectiveness of a digital text can be assessed by identifying its subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility.

Vocabulary

Analyze
Digital texts
Evaluate
Effectiveness
Subject
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Tone
Credibility

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