Language, Literature & Deliberation

Objectives

• D04.S1.12.01 Engage in complex, sustained deliberation on contested issues, hearing many voices and reaching reasoned positions.
• D04.S1.12.02 Speak with clarity, care, and integrity in public and professional settings, adapting to diverse audiences and purposes.
• D04.S2.12.01 Read, evaluate, and integrate scholarly, technical, and literary texts across registers and disciplines.
• D04.S2.12.02 Reason across multiple writing systems and languages, recognizing how each encodes meaning differently.
• D04.S3.12.01 Produce a sustained, polished piece of writing that demonstrates command of structure, style, and evidence for a chosen audience.
• D04.S3.12.02 Write with clarity and care across disciplines and registers, using language ethically and precisely in a multilingual world.
• D04.S4.12.01 Advocate for language justice, making communication accessible to people of all languages in public life.
• D04.S4.12.02 Move confidently and respectfully across languages and cultures, hearing many voices and speaking with clarity and care in a multilingual world.

Essential questions

• How do I deliberate on contested issues, hearing many voices and reaching reasoned positions, and speak with clarity, care, and integrity in public and professional settings?
• How do I read, evaluate, and integrate scholarly, technical, and literary texts — and reason across multiple writing systems and languages?
• How do I write a sustained, polished piece for a chosen audience, and advocate for language justice in a multilingual world?

Big ideas

• Sustained deliberation on contested issues hears many voices and reaches reasoned positions, and public and professional speech asks for clarity, care, and integrity adapted to diverse audiences.
• Reading across scholarly, technical, and literary registers — and reasoning across writing systems and languages — deepens how I understand meaning, since each system encodes it differently.
• Mature writing is sustained, polished, and audience-aware, and language justice makes public communication accessible to people of all languages.

Lessons

1. 1 The Deliberative Stance 55 minutes
2. 2 The Architecture of a Reasoned Position 55 minutes
3. 3 Clarity, Care, and Integrity in Public Speech 55 minutes
4. 4 Reading Across Registers 55 minutes
5. 5 Integrating Texts Across Disciplines 55 minutes
6. 6 How Writing Systems Encode Meaning 55 minutes
7. 7 One Idea, Many Scripts 55 minutes
8. 8 Planning a Sustained, Polished Piece 55 minutes
9. 9 Drafting: Structure, Style, and Evidence 55 minutes
10. 10 Revision as Re-Seeing 55 minutes
11. 11 Writing Across Disciplines, Ethically and Precisely 55 minutes
12. 12 Language Justice: Access for Every Language 55 minutes
13. 13 Bridging Across Languages and Cultures 55 minutes
14. 14 The Many-Voiced Capstone 60 minutes

Assessment plan

A sustained multi-voice deliberation with a reasoned position; a public or professional speech adapted to audience and purpose; a scholarly-technical-literary text integration; a writing-systems-and-languages reasoning; a sustained, polished written piece for a chosen audience; cross-discipline ethical writing; a language-justice advocacy; and a confident cross-language bridging record, gathered as capstone portfolio artifacts.