ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS LEARNING TARGETS
- Reading Literature: Demonstrate understanding of irony ELA30
- Reading Informational Text: Determine the central idea(s) of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another ELA1
- Reading Informational Text: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem. ELA3
- Reading Literature: Analyze the development of a story ( exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) ELA27
- Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
- Reading Informational Text Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging. ELA32
- Reading Informational Text Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text. ELA33
- Reading Literature: Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) ELA9
- Reading Literature: Demonstrate understanding of satire
- Reading Informational Text Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist , presidential addresses). ELA4 10
- Language Interpret figures of speech in context and analyze their role in the text ELA38
- Reading Informational Text Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g. Washington's Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
- Writing Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
- Writing Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.