140: Intermediate English I - Student Learning Outcomes

Writing Student Learning Outcomes
Writing 140
When a student completes this course successfully,
he/she will be able to:
Analyze a sentence, and identify the parts of speech of its parts
(noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun)
Comprehend and use simple present and past, present and past
progressive tenses
Comprehend and express future with simple future, be going to
and present progressive
Comprehend and use present perfect tense
Identify and comprehend present perfect progressive and past
perfect tense
Comprehend and use passive voice in simple tenses
Comprehend and use count and non-count nouns with appropriate
quantifiers
Comprehend and use pronouns
Comprehend and use comparisons with adjectives and adverbs
Comprehend and use adjective clauses with who, that and which
Comprehend and use infinitive to express purpose, as a subject,
and in basic colocations
Writing:
Write a variety of simple, complex and compound sentences with
increasing ability
Write a well-developed and coherent paragraph with a topic
sentence, several supporting sentences and concluding sentence
Demonstrate increasing ability to write a five-paragraph essay that
has
an introduction with a thesis statement
body paragraphs with logical flow of ideas
a conclusion
Revise the draft for content and organization
Recognize and correct mistakes in sentence structure and other
grammatical points covered at this level
Forms of
Assessment:
Homework
In-class graded
activities
Quizzes
Teacher observation
Coordinated Tests
Final Achievement Test
(for placement)
In-class writing
Homework
Coordinated Tests
Teacher observation
Final Achievement Test
(for placement)