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Grade 9 · English language arts

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English language arts · 2017 framework

More reading and writing

  1. 01Cite evidence from primary and secondary sources using their date and origin, summarize how ideas develop, and decide whether earlier events caused later onesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 02Determine political, social and economic vocabulary in context, analyze how structure emphasizes key points, and compare two authors' perspectivesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 03Integrate quantitative data with qualitative accounts, assess how well reasoning and evidence support an author's claims, compare several sources and read grades 9-10 history texts independentlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 04Cite precise details of a science text, summarize how it explains a complex process, and follow a multistep friction procedure with its special casesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 05Determine symbols and key terms in a physics text, analyze the relationships among force, friction, reaction force and energy, and define the question the author seeks to addressExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 06Translate between words, tables, graphs and equations, assess the reasoning behind a technical recommendation, and compare a text's findings with other sources and your own experimentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 07Write a discipline-specific argument with a thorough thesis, precise claims, fairly developed counterclaims, cohesive links, formal style and a conclusion that followsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 08Write informative texts that report a scientific experiment and narrate a historical event, with a thorough thesis, organized sections, precise vocabulary and a significant conclusionExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 09Produce clear writing for a task, purpose and audience, strengthen it by revising what matters most, publish and update it with technology, and write routinely over long and short time framesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 10Conduct short and sustained research: frame and adjust a question, search effectively, assess each source, synthesize, cite in a standard format and draw evidence from informational textsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Stories and poetry

  1. 11Cite strong and thorough evidence, trace a theme and write an objective summary of The Line at Halloran's OrchardExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 12Analyze how complex characters with conflicting motivations develop, interact and advance plot and themeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 13Analyze word choice, tone and mood, and how structure and manipulated time create mystery, tension and surpriseExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 14Analyze how point of view, perspective and cultural experience are reflected in literature from outside the United StatesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 15Analyze how a subject or key scene is represented in two artistic mediums, including what each emphasizes or leaves absentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 16Analyze how an author alludes to and transforms source material: Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and a modern retellingExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 17Read and comprehend complex literature and literary nonfiction in the grades 9-10 band, building background knowledge and making connectionsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Informational reading

  1. 18Cite strong evidence, trace how a central idea develops, summarize objectively and analyze how an author unfolds a series of ideasExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 19Analyze technical, figurative and connotative word meanings, how claims are refined by sentences and sections, and how rhetoric advances purposeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 20Analyze accounts of one subject told in different mediums and determine which details each emphasizesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 21Delineate and evaluate an argument: valid reasoning, relevant and sufficient evidence, false statements and fallacious reasoningExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 22Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance and how they address related themes and conceptsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Writing and research

  1. 23Write an argument with a precise claim, a fairly developed counterclaim and the strengths and limitations of bothExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 24Write an explanatory text that examines a complex idea with a thesis, headings, a table, extended definitions and precise vocabularyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 25Write a narrative with two points of view, parallel plot lines, deliberate pacing and a reflective conclusionExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 26Produce writing for a task, purpose and audience; revise what matters most; and publish and update shared writing with technologyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 27Conduct short and sustained research: shape the question, search and assess sources, synthesize, integrate and cite without plagiarismExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 28Draw evidence from literary and informational texts for analysis, and write routinely over long and short time framesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Speaking and listening

  1. 29Lead and join evidence-based discussions, integrate sources in diverse media, and evaluate a speaker's reasoning and evidenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 30Present findings with a followable line of reasoning, use digital media strategically, and adapt speech to context with command of formal EnglishExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Language and vocabulary

  1. 31Use parallel structure and choose among phrases and clauses to convey precise meaning and add varietyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 32Link clauses with semicolons, introduce lists and quotations with colons, spell correctly, and write and edit to a style manualExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 33Determine word meanings from context, word patterns and references; interpret euphemism and oxymoron; weigh nuance; and build academic vocabulary independentlyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers