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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao TzuEnduring understanding: Students will understand that comparing and describing sports and health topics effectively requires clear articulation to highlight differences and degrees of attributes or performance.

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Enduring understanding: Effective use of reported speech is more than a grammatical transformation. Purposeful choices about tense, pronouns, time/place shifts, and reporting verbs allow writers and speakers to integrate and characterize others’ ideas with precision, preserving meaning and maintaining academic integrity.

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Essential Question: How do our linguistic choices when reporting others’ ideas shape accuracy, integrity, and meaning in academic discourse?

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• Identify when backshifting is required, optional, or inappropriate, justifying choices with context and communicative purpose.
• Transform direct statements and questions into reported speech accurately, adjusting tense, pronouns, time, and place references.
• Select reporting verbs (e.g., argue, claim, suggest, insist, deny, explain) to convey stance and intention, and explain how verb choice affects interpretation.
• Summarize and synthesize multiple sources using reported speech to integrate ideas coherently while avoiding plagiarism.
• Evaluate sample academic passages for accuracy of reported speech and integrity of representation, proposing revisions as needed.
• Produce a short literature-review style paragraph that integrates at least two sources with precise reporting structures and appropriate citation conventions. </aside>

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