Students refine and adjust ways to craft writing that reflects individuality and proficiency and demonstrates critical thinking as developing writers.

• Express ideas using organizational structures that enhance writing.

• Edit writing for spelling, punctuation, and grammar; revise text for clarity and focus.

• Enhance personal style and voice through careful selection of words to create emphasis or effects.

Students analyze texts and interpret contexts to build comprehension.

• Connect perspectives reflected in texts to personal experiences.

Students analyze how the organization of a variety of texts can influence understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world.

• Analyze figurative language that can develop empathy and inspire creativity.

• Identify poetic structures that contribute to creative expression of ideas.

I can analyze and use figurative language to develop emotions.

I can use descriptive words in my own writing to create emphasis. 

I can collaborate with my peers to edit spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

I can connect the poem from the novel to my personal experiences.

I can improve my writing by planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.