ELA-10.RL.05

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.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

  • I can define figurative language.
  • I can define connotation and denotation.
  • I can define tone.
  • I can determine the difference between formal and informal tone.

Reasoning Targets

  • I can determine the meaning of words and phrases used in the text.
  • I can analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

Skills (Performance) Targets

  • I can determine the tone of a piece of literature.

Product Targets

  • I can

Proficiency Scale

Measurement of Progress

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.

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 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.
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Proficient

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.
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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 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.
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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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