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Grade 911 standards
Explain how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning and/or style in a literary text.
Analyze how multiple text structures and/or features convey a purpose and/or meaning in texts.
Explain how figurative language creates mood in text(s).
Analyze universal themes and their development throughout a literary text.
Evaluate the support an author uses to develop the central idea(s) throughout a text.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Analyze the influence of narrator perspective on a text, explaining how the author creates irony or satire.
Analyze how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
Compare and contrast the ways in which authors have adapted mythical, classical, or religious literary texts.
Analyze the characters, structures, and themes of epic poetry.
Compare the development of two opposing arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims.
Grade 1010 standards
Analyze how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning and/or style in a literary text.
Analyze the impact of multiple text structures and the use of features in text(s).
Analyze how figurative language creates mood in text(s).
Analyze and compare universal themes and their development throughout a literary text.
Analyze the central idea(s) of historical American speeches and essays.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Analyze coming of age experiences reflected in a text and how the author represents conflicting perspectives.
Analyze an author’s choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in historical American speeches and essays.
Analyze how authors create multiple layers of meaning and/or ambiguity in a poem.
Compare the development of two opposing arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims and analyzing the ways in which the authors use the same information to achieve different ends.
Grade 1111 standards
Evaluate how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning and/or style in a literary text.
Evaluate the structure(s) and features in texts.
Analyze the author’s use of figurative language and explain examples of allegory.
Track and analyze universal themes in literary texts from different times and places.
Analyze the central idea(s) of speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Analyze the author’s choices in using juxtaposition to define character perspective.
Analyze an author’s choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
Compare and contrast how contemporaneous authors address related topics, comparing the authors’ use of reasoning and analyzing the texts within the context of the time period.
Analyze ways in which poetry reflects themes and issues of its time period.
Compare the development of multiple arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims, the authors’ reasoning, and the ways in which the authors use the same information to achieve different ends.
Grade 1212 standards
Evaluate how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning and/or style in a literary text and explain the functional significance of those elements in interpreting the text.
Evaluate the structure(s) and features in text(s), identifying how the author could make the text(s) more effective.
Evaluate an author’s use of figurative language.
Analyze two or more themes and evaluate their development throughout a literary text.
Evaluate how an author develops the central idea(s), identifying how the author could make the support more effective.
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
Evaluate the development of character perspective, including conflicting perspectives.
Evaluate an author’s choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s).
Analyze the influence of classic literature on contemporary world texts.
Evaluate works of major poets in their historical context.
Compare the development of multiple arguments in related texts, evaluating the validity of the claims, the authors’ reasoning, use of the same information, and/or the authors’ rhetoric.
Evaluate rhetorical choices across multiple texts.