12th Grade English

12th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
[RL] Reading Literature Strand
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

ELA-12.RL.01 Read closely to comprehend texts of grade-level appropriate complexity: determine what texts says explicitly and implicitly; identify and analyze ambiguities in the text; provide an objective summary.

Student Learning Targets:

Reasoning Targets

• I can cite strong, thorough, explicit textual evidence.
• I can analyze explicit ideas in text. 
• I can draw inferences from the text.

Knowledge Targets

• I can determine the difference between directly stated information and making inferences.
• I can explain textual evidence.
• I can describe and identify ambiguity.
• I can define objective.
• I can explain what a summary is.

Skills (Performance) Targets

• I can cite strong, thorough, explicit textual evidence.
• I can determine where text leaves matters uncertain. 
• I can write a summary that includes key ideas and details.

Product Targets

• I can construct a defense, complete with textual evidence, for my perspective regarding a piece or pieces of literature.

Measurement

of Progress

Key Ideas and Details: Students can CITE STRONG AND THOROUGH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE as they

• RL 11-12.1 Read closely to comprehend texts of grade-level appropriate complexity: determine what texts says explicitly and implicitly; identify and analyze ambiguities in the text; provide an objective summary.
• RL 11-12.2 Determine and analyze 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 11-12.3 Analyze how and why multiple characters and literary elements (symbolism, mood, setting, etc.) develop and interact over the course of a text and how they advance the plot and/or theme(s).

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.

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.  

The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but 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:

  • Explicit, implicit, inference, ambiguity, textual evidence, setting, plot, characterization, symbolism, mood, theme vs. central idea and topic, analysis, summary.