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Grade 12 · English language arts

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English language arts · 2017 framework

More reading and writing

  1. 01Cite evidence that connects specific details to a whole source, summarize the relationships among key ideas, and evaluate competing explanations of an eventExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 02Analyze how Madison uses and refines the key term 'faction', how Federalist No. 10 is structured, and evaluate historians' differing perspectives on itExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 03Integrate data, images and words to address a question, evaluate an author's premises and claims by corroborating or challenging them, synthesize primary and secondary sources noting discrepancies, and read grades 11-12 history texts independentlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 04Cite evidence from a technical text while attending to its distinctions and gaps, summarize its central conclusions in simpler but accurate terms, and follow a complex pendulum procedure and analyze the resultsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 05Determine the meaning of symbols and domain-specific terms, analyze how a science text structures information into categories and hierarchies, and analyze the author's purpose while identifying issues that remain unresolvedExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 06Integrate data, a simulation and multimedia to address a question, evaluate a study's hypotheses, data, analysis and conclusions by verifying the data, synthesize sources while resolving conflicting information, and read grades 11-12 science texts independentlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 07Write a discipline-specific argument with a thorough thesis, sequenced claims and counterclaims, fairly developed evidence, cohesive links, a formal style and a conclusion that followsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 08Write an informative or explanatory text that narrates a historical event or explains a scientific procedure, with a thorough thesis, a cumulative organization, well-chosen development, precise language and a significant conclusionExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 09Conduct short and sustained research, gather and assess authoritative sources with advanced searches, integrate evidence without plagiarism, and produce, revise, publish and update discipline-specific writingExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Stories and poetry

  1. 10Cite thorough evidence, mark where the text leaves matters uncertain, and analyze how two themes interact in The Scion WoodExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 11Analyze the impact of an author's choices about setting, the order of action, characters, beginnings, endings and resolution in The Scion WoodExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 12Determine denotative, connotative and figurative meanings and analyze how diction, multiple-meaning words and structure shape tone, mood and meaning in an original poemExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 13Distinguish what is directly stated from what is really meant in an original satire, and evaluate how satire, sarcasm, irony and understatement shape content and styleExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 14Analyze multiple interpretations of Hamlet, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and a recorded poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source textExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 15Demonstrate knowledge of foundational American literature by analyzing how Gilman's story and Dunbar's poem, both from the 1890s, treat the theme of a concealed self, and read complex literature proficientlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Informational reading

  1. 16Cite thorough evidence, analyze how two or more central ideas interact and build, craft an informative abstract, and explain how events and ideas develop in a complex essayExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 17Analyze how an author refines a key term, evaluate the effectiveness of an essay's structure, and analyze how style and content give a speech its powerExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 18Integrate and evaluate information presented visually, quantitatively and in words to address a question about the Mill Creek BridgeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 19Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in Federalist No. 51 and the premises, purposes and arguments in Washington's Farewell AddressExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 20Analyze foundational U.S. documents from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries for their themes, purposes and rhetorical features, and read complex literary nonfiction proficientlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Writing and research

  1. 21Write an argument that anticipates an audience’s knowledge, concerns, values and possible biases while weighing claims and counterclaimsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 22Write an explanatory text that manages a complex idea with extended definitions, a table, analogy and domain-specific vocabularyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 23Write a narrative whose events build on one another toward a particular tone and outcomeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 24Produce, revise and publish writing with technology, and update it in response to ongoing feedback and new informationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 25Conduct sustained research: refine the question, search effectively, weigh each source for the task and synthesize without overreliance on one sourceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 26Draw evidence from American literature and seminal U.S. texts for analysis, and write routinely over short and extended time framesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Speaking and listening

  1. 27Lead a collaborative discussion, integrate sources in diverse formats, and evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning and rhetoricExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 28Present findings with a clear and distinct perspective, strategic digital media, and speech adapted to contextExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Language and vocabulary

  1. 29Treat usage as convention, resolve contested usage with references, observe hyphenation, and vary syntax for effect and for reading complex textsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 30Determine word meanings with context, word patterns and references; interpret hyperbole and paradox; weigh nuance; and build academic vocabulary independentlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers