California State Content Standards

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

ELA R.3.8: Interpret and evaluate the impact of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities in a text.

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 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.1.9: 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.2.1.a: Relate a sequence of events and communicate the significance of the events to the audience.

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

ELA W.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 the characters; use interior monologue to depict the characters' feelings.

ELA W.2.1.d: Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate changes in time and mood.

ELA W.2.1.e: Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.

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 W.2.2.d: Identify and assess the impact of perceived ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text.

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

ELA L.1.3: Choose logical patterns of organization (e.g., chronological, topical, cause and effect) to inform and to persuade, by soliciting agreement or action, or to unite audiences behind a common belief or cause.

ELA L.1.4: Choose appropriate techniques for developing the introduction and conclusion (e.g., by using literary quotations, anecdotes, references to authoritative sources).

ELA L.1.5: Recognize and use elements of classical speech forms (e.g., introduction, first and second transitions, body, conclusion) in formulating rational arguments and applying the art of persuasion and debate.

ELA L.1.7: Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations.

ELA L.1.8: Produce concise notes for extemporaneous delivery.

ELA L.1.9: Analyze the occasion and the interests of the audience and choose effective verbal and nonverbal techniques (e.g., voice, gestures, eye contact) for presentations.

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.1.13: Analyze the types of arguments used by the speaker, including argument by causation, analogy, authority, emotion, and logic.

ELA L.2.1.a: Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience.

ELA L.2.1.d: Pace the presentation of actions to accommodate time or mood changes.

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

ELA L.2.6.a: Establish clearly the speaker's point of view on the subject of the presentation.

ELA L.2.6.b: Establish clearly the speaker's relationship with that subject (e.g., dispassionate observation, personal involvement).

ELA L.2.6.c: Use effective, factual descriptions of appearance, concrete images, shifting perspectives and vantage points, and sensory details.