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Language Arts: Writing

  Curriculum Standard 2

Students will demonstrate the interest and ability to write effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

• Enhance their writing by using a variety of sources to provide background information, supporting details, and models of good writing.
  
  
• Understand and employ the elements of effective writing including purpose, topic development, organization, details, sentence structure, paragraphing, vocabulary, word choice, tone, and style.
• Use a variety of forms to develop ideas, share information, influence, persuade, create, and entertain.
• Use specific techniques, such as stating startling facts, relating anecdotes, drawing analogies, using metaphors, beginning with descriptions, using quotations, developing text, and using introductions and conclusions, to enhance the effectiveness of their writing.