ELA-12.RI.09

12th Grade ELA Targeted Standards
[RI] Reading Information Strand
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

ELA-12.RI.09 Analyze how texts within and/or across time periods treat similar topics, addressing their themes, purposes, and rhetorical strategies.

Student Learning Targets:

 

Proficiency Scale

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of Progress

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (often taught in connection with speaking and writing)

  • RI 11-12.7 Analyze and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visuals, videos, tables, charts, and graphs), including written text.
  • RI 11-12.8 Delineate and evaluate a text’s argumentative reasoning and persuasive techniques, including emotional appeals and establishing credibility.
  • RI 11-12.9 Analyze how texts within and/or across time periods treat similar topics, addressing their themes, purposes, and rhetorical strategies.
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.

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Proficient

The student can

  • when addressing a question or solving a problem,

    • evaluate multiple sources in different media or formats

    • choose details that offer the best support.

    • integrate reliable information within writing and speaking.

  • assess the logic or rationale in key foundational documents.

  • delineate and evaluate the reasoning and persuasive techniques within a text

  • analyze how texts within and/or across time periods treat similar topics; consider theme, purpose and rhetoric.

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Progressing

There are no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes as the student:

  • evaluates, chooses, and integrates reliable information within writing and speaking.

  • identifies logic or rationale in various documents.

  • identifies reasoning and persuasive techniques.

  • determines themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology that relates to literature, such as:

    • rhetoric, delineate, supporting evidence, persuasive techniques, ethos, pathos, logos

However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.

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

 

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