Oxford High School

Courses in Economics and Business

# Communication with Text II (9-12)         One Semester         .5 Credit

This course is designed to refine text input skills and to further expand the student’s knowledge of Microsoft Office.  Students will be exposed to advanced features found in tables and columns; styles, templates, and AutoText; merging and sorting; graphing and special effects.  Students will have an intensive review of reports using the Modern Language Association (MLA) style of report writing.  Exposure to a variety of business documents and desktop publishing will complete this course.

1. Enduring Understandings (broad ideas, usually grounded in the discipline):

• Understand and apply technology in the workplace.
• Develop an appreciation for the role of business in a global society.
• Understand the legal and ethical aspects of business.
• Understand the responsibility of each worker in the business and finance enterprise.
• Utilize traits associated with a positive work ethic.
• Work with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Explore career opportunities.
• Develop an appreciation for lifelong learning and further education.
• Understand and apply economic and personal finance concepts.
• Demonstrate a mastery of basic skills in communication, computation, critical thinking and decision-making.
• Transfer and adapt skills learning to different work and life situations.

2. Course Specific Goals (aligned with Content Standards):

• Prepare advanced business correspondence.

• Format advanced business correspondence.

• Express thoughts and ideas through formal writing.

• Utilize research tools and techniques to assess, evaluate and synthesize information in order to answer questions, solve problems, and/or defend positions.

• Demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze problems and support conclusions using appropriate methods and technology.

• Utilize technology to research and communicate effectively.

• Demonstrate the ability to express themselves creatively.

• Respond critically to a variety of written sources.

3. Expected Performances (aligned with state Expected Performances)

• Demonstrate advanced skill in managing data in a workstation and/or network environment.

• Demonstrate competency to create, save, retrieve, and print a variety of documents in different formats.

• Evidence ability to use speller and thesaurus to edit word processing documents.

• Show competency to compose documents using correct grammar and spelling.

• Integrate graphics and tables into business documents.
   

Communication with Text II: Scope and Sequence Calendar