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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
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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
- 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.
Curriculum Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting, and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature as well as literary works translated into English.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature, and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.
- Identify, analyze, and interpret literary themes and elements.
- Stand apart from a text and consider it objectively by performing a range of tasks including critically evaluating; comparing and contrasting; understanding the impact of the organizational structure; and analyzing the use of such elements as satire, irony, humor, bias, redundancy, symbolism, analogies, metaphors, and poetic license.
- Critically analyze and evaluate texts for their practical, informational, or aesthetic value; for writer's craft; for writer's biases; and for the inherent ability of the work to communicate.
Language Arts: Literature Curriculum Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting, and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature as well as literary works translated into English.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature, and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.
- Analyze the ways readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts.
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