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Apr 27, 2024
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PCADE 083 Reading/Writing/Communication for Modern World History (ESL) (5 credits)
Course Description
This course will help students develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills at the high school level. Students will demonstrate their reading for comprehension and writing skills through reflective essays.
Course Content
• Scientific readings/materials
• Opposing opinion resources
• Essays and short stories
• Reading Apprenticeship strategies
• Proper citation style and format; differentiating between paraphrasing,
citing and plagiarism
• Writing Standards regarding word choice, spelling, punctuation, sentence
structure and organization
Student Outcomes
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate opinions and ideas through writing
• Organize and analyze information and reflect upon its meaning
• Support points of view with evidence
• Understand citation/reference formats and requirements
• Use a wide range of reading and AVID strategies
• Integrate prior knowledge with new information to deepen synthesis of the
information
• Develop sound sentence structure and proper punctuation usage through
writing assignments
READING STRAND of College and Career Readiness Standards
• Application: cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary
and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of
the information.
• Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether
earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
• Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same
or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in
their respective accounts.
• Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data)
with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
• Application: compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several
primary and secondary sources.
WRITING STRAND of College and Career Readiness Standards
• Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or
texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and
information clearly and accurately through the effective selection,
organization, and analysis of content.
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using
effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event
sequences.
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization,
and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach.
• Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and
to interact and collaborate with others.
• Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused
questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
• Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess
the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information
while avoiding plagiarism.
• Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking:
Graduates will be able to question, search for answers and meaning, and develop ideas that lead to action.
Effective Communication:
Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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