Demonstrate

• R.4.g - Explain what they understand from the topic or story, including how information, ideas, or elements of a story interact and/or change.

• R.4.h - Analyze how the author's use of language, including figurative language and rhetorical devices, shapes meaning and affects reader understanding

• W.1.a - Compose in order to describe situations, experience, ideas, and imaginings. 

• R.4.i - Analyze complex text structures and how they guide readers' understanding, shape meaning, and create effects such as tension among others.

• L.1.b - Analyze how authors and speakers adapt their use of English across genres, audiences, and purposes.

• W.1.b - Compose in order to record observations and/or explain their observations and analysis of texts, ideas, and the world.

Discussion

Students will need to meet about ½ of SLDF.1 lettered components, and at least 1 of the components for SLDF.4 in Semester 1, and the rest of each in Semester 2. More information can be found in the SLDF Student and Family Guide.

• SLDF.1 - Students listen thoughtfully, respond respectfully, and contribute meaningfully to well-reasoned exchanges during face-to-face discussions and/or in digital forums.

• SLDF.4  - Students determine how to present themselves and their ideas in different contexts.

Reading Requirements

Students will need to meet the minimum grade level text requirements outlined in the Reading Lab Genre Minimum Parameters doc, as well as the minimum time for independent reading (20 minutes per day for Regular, 25 per day for Honors) and total amount of books finished (15 regular, 20 honors minimum) each semester.