English 12 · Week 23 · Modern Worlds and Real World Writing
Workplace Communication
Professional emails, cover letters, and tone.
- Students will
- Students write a professional email or cover letter paragraph with clear purpose, audience awareness, and appropriate tone.
- SEL skill
- Adjust tone to fit a reader and show respect in a professional message
- What it looks like
- Students practice social intelligence by adjusting tone to fit the audience.
- Content focus
- Workplace communication and tone
- Format
- Role play
Relationship skills
Relationship skills are using communication, listening, teamwork, and conflict resolution to build and keep healthy relationships. More relationship skills activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- W.11-12.4: Writing, Grades 11 to 12, Standard 4
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.11-12.4 Adapting language choices; ELD.PI.11-12.10 Writing
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Effective Expression
- Works with: Writing
Fits these textbook chapters
- StudySync Grade 12, Unit 3: An Exchange of Ideas
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC), Module 26: What's Next? Thinking About Life After High School
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More relationship skills activities for English 12
- Seminar on Power Relationship skillsSocratic seminar on power and responsibility.
- Peer Review Like a Professional Relationship skillsProfessional feedback norms.
- The Interview Relationship skillsMock job and college interviews.
- Senior Project: Collaborate Relationship skillsTeam roles and resolving conflict on long projects.
Previous: Surveillance and Privacy · Next: The Interview
RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.