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Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

Assess the formality of occasions in order to speak or write using appropriate language and tone.

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

Critical Literacy

Process and employ information for a variety of academic, occupational, and personal purposes.

Reception

Reading

Evaluate the contributions of informational text elements, including categories, point of view, purpose, and figurative, connotative, and technical word meanings, to develop central and supporting ideas.

Evaluate how effectively an author uses structures of informational texts, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, and substantiated or unsubstantiated claims and evidence, to achieve a purpose.

Explain how the author’s choice of setting, plot, characters, theme, conflict, dialogue, and point of view contribute to and/or enhance the meaning and purpose of prose and poetry, using textual evidence from the writing.

Evaluate literary devices to support interpretations of literary texts using textual evidence, including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, imagery, tone, symbolism, irony, and mood.

Listening

Evaluate rhetorical strategies used to develop central and supporting ideas in recorded or live presentations, including point of view, purpose, comparison, categories, and word meanings (figurative, connotative, and technical).

Evaluate the speaker’s use of hyperbole, tone, symbolism, imagery, mood, irony, and onomatopoeia in a live or recorded presentation.

Expression

Writing

Produce clear, coherent narrative, argument, and informative/explanatory writing in which the development, organization, style, and tone are relevant to task, purpose, and audience, using an appropriate command of language.

Write narratives to convey a series of events incorporating key literary elements, establishing a clear purpose, using narrative techniques (dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection), and sequencing events coherently (chronological and/or flashback).

Write informative or explanatory texts with an organized structure and a formal style to examine ideas or processes effectively while developing the topic and utilizing appropriate transitions, precise vocabulary, and credible information or data when relevant.

Write an argument to defend a position by introducing and supporting claim(s), acknowledging alternate or opposing claims, and presenting reasons and relevant text evidence from accurate and credible sources.

Speaking

Participate in collaborative discussions about arguments by evaluating claims, findings, and evidence from a source.

Participate in collaborative discussions about prose and poetry by evaluating the use of literary devices and elements.

Digital Literacy

Use technology, including the Internet, to research, analyze, produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information, people, and resources and to display information flexibly and dynamically.

Reception

Reading

Assess subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of various digital sources.

Compare and contrast the effectiveness of techniques used in a variety of digital sources to generate and answer literal, interpretive, and applied questions and create new understandings.

Determine the intended purposes of techniques used for rhetorical effect in multiple digital sources.

Listening

Interpret language through active listening to determine subject, occasion, audience, purpose, tone, and credibility of digital sources.

Expression

Writing

Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and tone.