California State Content Standards

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ELA W.1.1: Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments.

ELA W.1.2: Use point of view, characterization, style (e.g., use of irony), and related elements for specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.

ELA W.1.3: Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples.

ELA W.2.2.a: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas in works or passages.

ELA W.2.2.b: Analyze the use of imagery, language, universal themes, and unique aspects of the text.

ELA W.2.3.b: Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or generalizations about life.

ELA C.1.1: Demonstrate control of grammar, diction, and paragraph and sentence structure and an understanding of English usage.

ELA C.1.2: Produce legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct punctuation and capitalization.

History/Social Science 11.1.1: Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.

History/Social Science 11.1.2: Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers' philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.