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Standard Identifier: W.8.2

Grade: 8
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes

Standard:
Write informative/explanatory texts, including career development documents (e.g., simple business letters and job applications), to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. CA a. Introduce a topic or thesis statement clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. CA b. Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. c. Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. e. Establish and maintain a formal style. f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.

Standard Identifier: W.8.3

Grade: 8
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes

Standard:
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

Standard Identifier: W.8.4

Grade: 8
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing

Standard:
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

Standard Identifier: W.8.5

Grade: 8
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing

Standard:
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8.)

Standard Identifier: W.8.6

Grade: 8
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Writing
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing

Standard:
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Standard Identifier: RI.9-10.4

Grade Range: 9–10
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper). (See grade 9–10 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

Standard Identifier: RI.9-10.5

Grade Range: 9–10
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). a. Analyze the use of text features (e.g., graphics, headers, captions) in functional workplace documents. CA

Standard Identifier: RI.9-10.6

Grade Range: 9–10
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

Standard Identifier: RL.9-10.4

Grade Range: 9–10
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
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). (See grade 9–10 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

Standard Identifier: RL.9-10.5

Grade Range: 9–10
Subject Area: English Language Arts (6–12)
Domain: Reading: Literature
Cluster: Craft and Structure

Standard:
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

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