9th Grade English

9th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
(RL) Reading Literature Strand
Cluster: Craft and Structure

ELA-09.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.    

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

• I can identify different literary text structures (e.g., narrative, poem, drama).

Reasoning Targets

• I can analyze a text and determine why an author chose to present his/her text using a particular structure.
• I can analyze a text and determine why an author organized events in a particular order (e.g., parallel plot—two main characters have separate but related story lines merge in the end).
• I can analyze a text and determine how an author manipulates time (e.g., flashback—When a character recalls an experience that occurred in the past).
• I can analyze how an author’s choice of text structure creates such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Skills (Performance) Targets

Product Targets

• I can produce written or spoken evidence revealing my understanding of author's choice.

CRAFT & STRUCTURE

• 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 can

• determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.

• relate 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 examine 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 point of view, recognizing when and why an author says one thing but means another.

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, diction, imagery, irony, sarcasm, ambiguity, point of view, satire, hyperbole, understatement (litote), allusion, pun.