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ELA R.2.2: Prepare a bibliography of reference materials for a report using a variety of consumer, workplace, and public documents.

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.2.5: Extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.

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

ELA R.3.8: Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in 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.1.1: Establish a controlling impression or coherent thesis that conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject and maintain a consistent tone and focus throughout the piece of writing.

ELA W.1.2: Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice.

ELA W.1.4: Develop the main ideas within the body of the composition through supporting evidence (e.g., scenarios, commonly held beliefs, hypotheses, definitions).

ELA W.1.5: Synthesize information from multiple sources and identify complexities and discrepancies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium (e.g., almanacs, microfiche, news sources, in-depth field studies, speeches, journals, technical documents).

ELA W.1.6: Integrate quotations and citations into a written text while maintaining the flow of ideas.

ELA W.1.7: Use appropriate conventions for documentation in the text, notes, and bibliographies by adhering to those in style manuals (e.g., Modern Language Association Handbook, The Chicago Manual of Style).

ELA W.1.9: Revise writing to improve the logic and coherence of the organization and controlling perspective, the precision of word choice, and the tone by taking into consideration the audience, purpose, and formality of the context.

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.2.3.a: Marshal evidence in support of a thesis and related claims, including information on all relevant perspectives.

ELA W.2.3.b: Convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources accurately and coherently.

ELA W.2.3.e: Anticipate and address readers' potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

ELA W.2.3.f: Use technical terms and notations accurately.

History/Social Science 10.8.2: Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

History/Social Science 10.8.3: Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.

History/Social Science 10.8.4: Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).

History/Social Science 10.8.5: Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

History/Social Science 10.8.6: Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.