CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH SYLLABUS AND EVALUATION PLAN
ELEVENTH GRADE
Educational Region
Mayaguez
Code
INGL
Municipality
Mayaguez
Teacher
Ms. Rodriguez
CAPA-TADO
8:20am – 10:00 am
Credits
1
School
Dr. Pedro Perea Fajardo
Prerrequisites
School Year
ENGLISH 10th GRADE
2024-2025
Education
☐BA ☒MA ☐Ed.D ☐Ph.D
E-mail
ed163700@miescuela.pr
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is for eleventh-grade students who will learn to understand, speak, read, and write in the real world. Its
main purpose is for students to improve listening comprehension. Participate in class, group, and partner discussions
by asking and answering questions, adding relevant information, and improving listening comprehension. Students
will demonstrate formal greetings and recounting experiences using complete sentences. The course develops in
student ways to converse about personal experiences from everyday situations. Grammar will be practiced through
social settings interactions.
STANDARDS DESPCRIPTIONS
The Listening/Speaking Standard develops a range of broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills,
including those used for formal or informal presentations. The student learns to communicate, collaborate, and listen
to ideas; strategically integrate information from oral, visual quantitative, and media sources to evaluate what they
hear, use, and display, helping to achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.
The Reading Standard places equal importance on the complexity of what students read and the skill with which they
read. This standard defines a grade-by-grade level of text complexity that starts with beginning reading and increases
up to the college and career-readiness high school level. When reading or viewing multimedia resources, the student
must also demonstrate a growing ability to understand or use texts, make connections among ideas and between texts,
and use textual evidence to support comprehension.
The Writing Standard develops the student’s capacity and skills to plan, revise, edit, and publish many types of writing,
such as arguments, informational/explanatory texts, and narratives. These standard stresses the importance of the
reading-writing connection by requiring students to draw upon and write about evidence from literary and informational
texts/media or when writing for research and investigations.
The Language Standard is presented as a summary of the skills and abilities that support the understanding of essential
rules of written and spoken English. The vocabulary focuses on understanding and acquiring new general, academic,
and content-specific words and phrases.
UNITS
FIRST SEMESTER
SECOND SEMESTER
Unit 1 – Robot Revolution
 Discuss the potential uses of robots in everyday
life
 Acknowledge arguments and propose
counterarguments
 Write an essay about AI in our homes
Unit 2 – The Labels We Live By
 Discuss assumptions about behavior
 Write a report based on graphs
Unit 7 - Roots
 Discuss the growing interest in DNA testing and genealogy
 Talk about celebrations in your family and your community
 Share a story about visiting a place with special significance
Unit 3 – In Hindsight
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
Discuss past actions and their present
results
Write a short story based on a set of facts
Unit 4 – Close Up
 Discuss the value of changing perspective
 Write a personal profile statement for a
résumé
 Create and present an action plan for a
project
Unit 5 – Remote
 Discuss traveling to remote places
 Discuss cause and effect
 Write a company profile
Unit 6 – Surprise, Surprise
 Discuss shocks and surprises
 Discuss the difference between local and
global brands
 Write a paragraph drawing from multiple
sources
10 WEEKS
Instrument
Points
Tests and
Assessment
300
Techniques
Performance
100
Tasks
Total Points
400
Accumulated
400
Total Points
Unit 8 – Short
 Discuss distractions and attention spans
 Talk about instincts and gut reactions
 Pitch a company, an idea, or a product to investors
Unit 9 – Health vs. Modern Life



Discuss the effects of a sedentary lifestyle
Suggest ways to establish good sleeping habits
Present and explain choices you have done for other
people
Unit 10 - Reinvention
 Talk about future options and how likely they are
 Discuss new ways to use natural energy sources
 Write a summary of a discussion about the new
economy
Unit 11 – True Colors
 Discuss the importance of color for businesses
 Talk about color expressions and their meaning
 Respond to questions in different ways
Unit 12 – Things Change
 Answer job interview questions about change
 Talk about places that have changed drastically
 Write a review of a movie or book
EVALUATION PLAN (subject to change)
20 WEEKS
30 WEEKS
Instrument
Points
Instrument
Points
Tests and
Tests and
Assessment
300
Assessment
300
Techniques
Techniques
Performance
Performance
100
100
Tasks
Tasks
Total Points
400
Total Points
400
Accumulated
Accumulated
800
1200
Total Points
Total Points
EVALUATION SCALE
100-90 A
89-80 B
79-70 C
69-60 D
40 WEEKS
Instrument
Points
Tests and
Assessment
100
Techniques
Performance
100
Tasks
Total Points
200
Accumulated
1400
Total Points
GPA SCALE
4.00 – 3.50 A
3.49 – 2.50 B
2.49 – 1.60 C
1.59 – 0.80 D
59- 0
F
0.79 – 0.00 F
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-REFERENCE TEXTS
 Evolve 6 - Anne, L., Ibbotson, M., & O’Dell, K. (2019). Evolve level 6 Teacher’s Book with Practice Extra.
Cambridge University Press.
* The teacher can use other appropriate available texts in school authorized by the DEPR. (Should be included as a
reference text).
GENERAL NOTES
1. It is a requisite to comply with: attendance, behavior, punctuality, handing in and reposition of classroom
tasks, as established in the student regulation manual of the Department of Education.
2. Comply with daily work, homework, and tests with honesty and punctuality.
3. Students that participate in the Special Education Program, 504 Section of the Vocational Rehabilitation Law
and the Limited Spanish Proficient Program will receive accommodations as specified in their corresponding
student services plans.
4. If any student has a medical condition that requires curricular adaptations, please inform the school
authorities.
The syllabus is subject to change due to adverse climate conditions, teacher illness or student needs (re-teaching)
among others.
ACUSE DE RECIBO DE PRONTUARIO Y PLAN DE EVALUACIÓN DEL ESTUDIANTE
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