Embedded Student Expectations:
Figure 19.B Make complex inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding:
Basics of Answering Short Answer Questions
Structuring Short Answer Responses
Short Answer for Connected Selections
Structuring a Short Answer for Connected Selections
Basics of Answering Short Answer Questions
Structuring Short Answer Responses
Short Answer for Connected Selections
Structuring a Short Answer for Connected Selections
Reporting Category 1: Understanding and Analysis Across Genres
Reporting Category 2: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
Reporting Category 3: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
8.A Explain the controlling idea and specific purpose of an expository text and distinguish the most important from the less important details that support the author's pupose.
9.A Summarize text and distinguish between a summary that captures the main ideas and elements of a text and a critique that takes a position and expresses an opinion.
9.C Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns.
9.A Summarize text and distinguish between a summary that captures the main ideas and elements of a text and a critique that takes a position and expresses an opinion.
9.C Make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions about the ideas in text and their organizational patterns.
Reporting Category 4: Composition
13.B Structure ideas in a sustained and persuasive way (e.g., using outlines, note taking, graphic organizers, lists) and develop drafts in timed and open-ended situations that include transitions and the rhetorical devices used to convey meaning.
13.C Revise drafts to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed.
13.D Edit Drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
14.A Write an engaging story with a well-developed conflict and resolution, interesting and believable characters, and a range of literary strategies (e.g., dialogue, suspense) and devices to enhance the plot.
* Elements of a Short Story
15.A Write an [analytical] essay of sufficient length that includes:
(i) effective introductory and concluding paragraphs and a variety of sentence structures
(ii) rhetorical devices, and transitions between paragraphs
(iii) a controlling idea or thesis
(iv) an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
(v) relevant information and valid inferences
13.C Revise drafts to improve style, word choice, figurative language, sentence variety, and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed.
13.D Edit Drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling
14.A Write an engaging story with a well-developed conflict and resolution, interesting and believable characters, and a range of literary strategies (e.g., dialogue, suspense) and devices to enhance the plot.
* Elements of a Short Story
15.A Write an [analytical] essay of sufficient length that includes:
(i) effective introductory and concluding paragraphs and a variety of sentence structures
(ii) rhetorical devices, and transitions between paragraphs
(iii) a controlling idea or thesis
(iv) an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
(v) relevant information and valid inferences