California State Content Standards

You Selected: The Search for Meaning (A Holocaust Project)

ELA R.1.2: Distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words and interpret the connotative power of words.

ELA R.2.3: Generate relevant questions about readings on issues that can be researched.

ELA R.2.4: Synthesize the content from several sources or works by a single author dealing with a single issue; paraphrase the ideas and connect them to other sources and related topics to demonstrate comprehension.

ELA R.2.8: Evaluate the credibility of an author's argument or defense of a claim by critiquing the relationship between generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which the author's intent affects the structure and tone of the text (e.g., in professional journals, editorials, political speeches, primary source material).

ELA R.3.3: Analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text (e.g., internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences) and explain the way those interactions affect the plot.

ELA R.3.4: Determine characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy.

ELA R.3.5: Compare works that express a universal theme and provide evidence to support the ideas expressed in each work.

ELA R.3.6: Analyze and trace an author's development of time and sequence, including the use of complex literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashbacks).

ELA R.3.7: Recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism, and explain their appeal.

ELA R.3.9: Explain how voice, persona, and the choice of a narrator affect characterization and the tone, plot, and credibility of a text.

ELA R.3.12: Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period. (Historical approach)

ELA W.2.2.a: Demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas of literary works.

ELA W.2.2.b: Support important ideas and viewpoints through accurate and detailed references to the text or to other works.

ELA W.2.2.c: Demonstrate awareness of the author's use of stylistic devices and an appreciation of the effects created.

ELA L.1.1: Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with convincing evidence.

ELA L.1.11: Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone of the oral communication and make an impact on the audience.

ELA L.1.12: Evaluate the clarity, quality, effectiveness, and general coherence of a speaker's important points, arguments, evidence, organization of ideas, delivery, diction, and syntax.

ELA L.2.1.b: Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.

ELA L.2.1.c: Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and the specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of characters.

ELA L.2.2.c: Make distinctions between the relative value and significance of specific data, facts, and ideas.

ELA L.2.2.d: Include visual aids by employing appropriate technology to organize and display information on charts, maps, and graphs.

ELA L.2.2.e: Anticipate and address the listener's potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

ELA L.2.4.a: Advance a judgment demonstrating a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas of works or passages (i.e., make and support warranted assertions about the text).

ELA L.2.4.b: Support important ideas and viewpoints through accurate and detailed references to the text or to other works.

ELA L.2.4.c: Demonstrate awareness of the author's use of stylistic devices and an appreciation of the effects created.

ELA L.2.4.d: Identify and assess the impact of perceived ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text.

ELA L.2.5.c: Clarify and defend positions with precise and relevant evidence, including facts, expert opinions, quotations, expressions of commonly accepted beliefs, and logical reasoning.

ELA 3.10.1: Identify a basic element of text (main character, subject of text)

ELA 3.10.2: Respond to simple questions about text (Yes/No, Choice of 2 - 3 possible answers).

ELA 3.10.3: Recall events/story

ELA 3.10.4: Answer "Wh" questions about materials read

ELA 3.11.1: Sequence story line

ELA 3.11.2: Predict what will happen next when given a short story or a social situation

ELA 3.11.3: Determine cause by given effect, or determine effect by given cause

ELA 6.20.2: Identify characteristics of a person, place, thing, location or action

ELA 6.20.4: Describe a person, place or thing using two or more descriptors

ELA 6.20.5: Share descriptive information about locations and actions

ELA 6.21.1: Attend and respond to speaker

ELA 6.21.2: Interact with person or group regarding specific topic

ELA 6.21.3: Participate in communicative dialog with person or group on specific topic

ELA 6.22.1: Obtain help using gestures, actions, voice output device or vocalizations

ELA 6.22.2: Ask simple questions using gestures, actions, voice output device or vocalizations

ELA 6.22.3: Ask "wh" questions for clarification using gestures, actions, voice output device or vocalizations

ELA 6.23.1: Sequence events by responding to cues (environmental or directions)

ELA 6.23.2: Identify next event in a sequence

ELA 6.23.3: Respond to question about events or experiences

ELA 6.23.4: Recount events of past experiences in logical, sequential order

ELA 6.24.1: Interact with another person (i.e., proximity, tone, volume, clarity, etc.)

ELA 6.24.2: Discriminate when to ask and when to reciprocate (i.e., take turns while communicating)

ELA 6.24.3: Maintain topic in conversation appropriate for place, role, social situation