Revise drafts to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed;
Write an analytical essay of sufficient length that includes:
Edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling;
Oral and Written Conventions/Spelling. Students spell correctly. Students are expected to spell correctly, including using various resources to determine and check correct spellings.
Use a variety of correctly structured sentences (e.g., compound, complex, compound-complex).
Use correct punctuation marks including:
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze how literary essays interweave personal examples and ideas with factual information to explain, present a perspective, or describe a situation or event.
Analyze textual context (within a sentence and in larger sections of text) to distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words;
Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the controlling idea and specific purpose of an expository text and distinguish the most important from the less important details that support the author's purpose.
Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns;
Differentiate between opinions that are substantiated and unsubstantiated in the text;
Summarize text and distinguish between a summary that captures the main ideas and elements of a text and a critique that takes a position and expresses an opinion;
Analyze the clarity of the objective(s) of procedural text (e.g., consider reading instructions for software, warranties, consumer publications);
Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
Analyze how authors develop complex yet believable characters in works of fiction through a range of literary devices, including character foils;
Analyze the way in which a work of fiction is shaped by the narrator's point of view;
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