10th Grade English

10th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
[RL] Reading Literature Strand
Cluster: Craft and Structure

ELA-10.RL.05 Analyze how an author's choices about ordering events and manipulating time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

CRAFT & STRUCTURE (LITERATURE)

• RL.9-10.4 -- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).    

• RL.9-10.5-- Analyze how an author's choices about ordering events and manipulating time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.    

• RL.9-10.6 -- Analyze how cultural experiences influence particular points of view in diverse works of literature.

In addition to expectations of proficiency, student provides consistent evidence of in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught and expected.  The student can

• insightfully analyze meaning and impact of words and phrases and the effects of an author’s choices in structuring a text.
• thoroughly analyze author’s point of view, cultural experience, and subtext
• connect study of literature, its craft and structure, and apply it to his/her own writing.
• analyze point of view, clearly distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant, connecting usage to the author’s purpose.

The student

• determines the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
• relates the author‘s word choice and language (including multiple meanings and language that is fresh and engaging)  to the overall effect of the story -- meaning and tone.
• closely examines specific parts of a text in order to understand how an author structured and crafted that particular part so it would contributes to meaning or artistic effect.
• analyze how cultural experiences influence particular points of view in diverse works of literature.

There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes; however the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.  The student can

• identify when an author uses fresh and creative language and can recognize elements of a text, but is unable to explain how craft and structure contributes to meaning.
• recognize or recall specific terminology that relates to craft and structure of literature, such as: figurative language, connotation, denotation, tone, diction, imagery, irony, sarcasm, ambiguity, point of view, satire, hyperbole, understatement (litote), allusion, pun.