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English language arts · 2017 framework
Grade band 9-10 · 70 / 72 statements targeted
| Standard | Instruction status | Source text |
|---|---|---|
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze literary text development. |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning, mood, and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place or an emotion; how it sets a formal or informal tone). |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a point of view, perspective, or cultural experience is reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.8 | Not applicable at this grade | (Not applicable to literature) |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how an author alludes to and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). |
| ela-2017:RL.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range, building background knowledge and activating prior knowledge in order to make personal, historical, and cultural connections that deepen understanding of complex text. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently, building background knowledge and activating prior knowledge in order to make personal, historical, and cultural connections that deepen understanding of complex text. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze informational text development. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper). |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine an author's perspective or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that perspective or purpose. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington's Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"), including how they address related themes and concepts. |
| ela-2017:RI.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.) |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grades 9-10.) |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:W.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Evaluate a speaker's perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. |
| ela-2017:SL.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grades 9-10 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.) |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9-10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. |
| ela-2017:L.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social studies. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare the perspectives of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. |
| ela-2017:RH.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 10, read, comprehend, and respond to history/social studies texts in the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze content-area-specific text development. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.3 | Provisional target; review pending | Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined in the text. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 9-10 texts and topics. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy). |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claim or a recommendation for solving a scientific or technical problem. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Compare and contrast findings presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous explanations or accounts. |
| ela-2017:RST.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | By the end of grade 10, read, comprehend, and respond to science/technical texts in the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.1 | Provisional target; review pending | Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.2 | Provisional target; review pending | Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.3 | Not applicable at this grade | (See note; not applicable as a separate requirement) |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.4 | Provisional target; review pending | Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.5 | Provisional target; review pending | Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.6 | Provisional target; review pending | Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.7 | Provisional target; review pending | Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.8 | Provisional target; review pending | Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.9 | Provisional target; review pending | Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research. |
| ela-2017:WHST.9-10.10 | Provisional target; review pending | Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |