W.9-10.3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.  

Focus: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.  

RL.9-10.3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

Focus: Provide an analysis of the impact of an author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g. where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

RL.8.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. 

Focus: Provide an objective summary of a text.

RL.9-19.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Focus: Provide an objective summary of a text.

L.9-10.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Focus: Demonstrate the ability to use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

RL.9-19.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Focus: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account

RL.9-10.3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. 

Focus: Provide an analysis of how complex characters (those with multiple or conflicting motivations) interact with other characters over the course of the text.

W.9-10.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Focus: Address the writing prompt and provide effective and thorough development of the topic and/or narrative elements by using clear reasoning, details, and/or description.

W.9-10.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Focus: Address the writing prompt and provide effective and thorough development of the topic and/or narrative elements by using clear reasoning, details, and/or description.

SL.11-12.3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used. 

Focus: Identify and assess the effectiveness of a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.