ELA-10.RL.02

10th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
[RL] Reading Literature Strand
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

ELA-10.RL.02 Determine and analyze a theme and/or central idea of texts -- analyze the development of theme or central idea over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

  • I can define theme as a universal truth that run throughout a piece of literature.
  • I can define objective and subjective.
  • I can determine what details are necessary to include in an objective summary.
  • I can determine a theme.

Reasoning Targets

  • I can analyze themes as they relate to a specific story and its characters.
  • I can support my analysis by showing how my determined theme progresses throughout the literary work.

Skills (Performance) Targets

  • I can differentiate between theme and plot.
  • I can summarize a written passage without editorializing.
  • I can collect and cite details and evidence to support a theme or central idea of a text.

Product Targets

  • I can write or verbalize an objective summary.
  • I can produce a written work or spoken statements reveal literary analysis of theme.

Proficiency Scale

Measurement of Progress

KEY IDEAS & DETAILS (LITERATURE)

Students can CITE STRONG AND THOROUGH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE as they

  • RL9-10.1 Read closely to comprehend texts of grade-level appropriate complexity  a. Determine what the text says explicitly and implicitly   b. Provide an objective summary of the text

  • RL9-10.2 Determine and analyze a theme and/or central idea of texts -- analyze the development of theme or central idea over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.

  • RL9-10.3 Analyze how and why characters and/or textual elements (e.g., symbolism, mood, setting, etc.) develop and interact over the course of a text, interact with other elements, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Sample Activity
Advanced 

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

  • elicits strong and thorough textual evidence (often cross referencing with other sources) while insightfully analyzing the development of theme(s) development and/or central idea(s) as well as the impact of the author’s choices on setting, plot, and characterization.
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Proficient

The student

  • relies on strong and thorough textual evidence while

    • making inferences

    • analyzing the development of theme(s) and/or central idea(s)

    • analyzing the impact of the author’s choices on setting, plot, and characterization.

  • accurately determines what the text says explicitly, even in more complex texts where ambiguities surface

  • moves beyond summary to analysis.
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Progressing 

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

  • summarizes key ideas of a text, but struggles to consistently and relevantly draw from the text to support analysis.
  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology that relates to literature, such as:
    • textual evidence, setting, plot, characterization, theme vs. central idea and topic, analysis, summary

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Novice With help, a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes and some of the more complex ideas and processes. -

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