Tallapoosa County Public Schools

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Reading and Language Arts

These content standards are what the Alabama State Board of Education has identified as what students should know and be able to do at the end of the grade level. Therefore, teaching these standards to mastery is the goal for each classroom in Alabama. Additional related content (the bulleted items) is to be taught to students in order to support previous teaching or to lay a foundation for future content to be mastered.

Grading Period / Reading and Literature Standards / AHSGE or Activities
1st 9 weeks / 1. Draw conclusions and make inferences about characters, motives, intentions, and attitudes in short stories, drama, poetry, novels, and essays and other nonfiction texts.
  • Identify major historical developments in language and literature in America from the beginnings to 1900
  • Use context clues to determine meaning
  • Identify sequence
  • Summarize passages
2. Identify and interpret literary elements and devices – analogy, personification, and implied purpose.
  • Identify and interpret figurative language and imagery
  • Interpret tone from author’s word choice
3. Make inferences about effects when passage provides cause; infer cause when passage provides effect; make inferences, decisions, and predictions from tables, charts, and other text features; and identify the outcome or product of a set of directions after reading informational texts.
  • Follow complex or embedded directions
  • Distinguish author’s opinion from factual statements
  • Determine main idea and supporting details
  • Summarize passages
  • Determine sequence of events
4. Recognize fallacious or illogical thought in essays, editorials, and other informational texts.
  • Evaluate strength of argument
  • Recognize propaganda
Literature
6. Determine word meaning using word structure and context clues. / II-26 items
II-3 6 items
IV-16 items
I-26 items
II-5 6 items
III-26 items
III-36 items
II-36 items
IV-26 items
I-36 items
I-36 items
II-46 items
II-16 items
II-56 items
I-26 items
III-16 items
II-46 items
IV-16 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Language Arts Standards / AHSGE or Activities
1st 9 weeks / Writing and Language
7. Write in persuasive, expository, and narrative modes using an abbreviated writing process in timed and untimed situations.
  • Critique content, literary elements, and word choice
  • Use a variety of sentence patterns
  • Evaluate opinions for supporting details and bias
  • Use active and passive voice when appropriate
8. Write in a variety of genres for various audiences and occasions, both formal and informal, using an attention-getting opening and an effective conclusion.
  • Develop an effective voice suitable for audience and purpose
11. Demonstrate correct use of commas with parenthetical expressions and after introductory adverbial clauses and correct use of semicolons before conjunctive adverbs and in compound sentences with no conjunction.
12. Demonstrate correct use of singular and plural collective nouns and words with alternate accepted forms; pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and gender; and nominative, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
13. Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with singular and plural subjects, including subjects compound in form and singular in meaning and subjects plural in form and singular in meaning; intervening prepositional and appositive phrases; and correlative conjunctions.
14. Edit for incorrect shifts in verb tense in paragraphs, use of verbals, use of dangling participles and misplaced modifiers, and parallelism in phrases. / Compose a variety of writing attending to the compositional elements – purpose, audience, content, and organization
II-15 items
III-15 items
I-7 5 items
Grade 10 writing assessment
II-15 items
II-25 items
III-15 items
I-75 items
IV-25 items
I-15 items
I-45 items
I-65 items
I-35 items
I-55 items
I-85 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Reading and Literature Standards / AHSGE or Activities
2nd 9 weeks / 1. Draw conclusions and make inferences about characters, motives, intentions, and attitudes in short stories, drama, poetry, novels, and essays and other nonfiction texts.
  • Identify major historical developments in language and literature in America from the beginnings to 1900
  • Use context clues to determine meaning
  • Identify sequence
  • Summarize passages
2. Identify and interpret literary elements and devices – analogy, personification, and implied purpose.
  • Identify and interpret figurative language and imagery
  • Interpret tone from author’s word choice
3. Make inferences about effects when passage provides cause; infer cause when passage provides effect; make inferences, decisions, and predictions from tables, charts, and other text features; and identify the outcome or product of a set of directions after reading informational texts.
  • Follow complex or embedded directions
  • Distinguish author’s opinion from factual statements
  • Determine main idea and supporting details
  • Summarize passages
  • Determine sequence of events
4. Recognize fallacious or illogical thought in essays, editorials, and other informational texts.
  • Evaluate strength of argument
  • Recognize propaganda
Literature
5. Compare literary components of various pre-twentieth century American authors’ styles.
6. Determine word meaning using word structure and context clues. / II-26 items
II-3 6 items
IV-16 items
I-26 items
II-5 6 items
III-26 items
III-36 items
II-36 items
IV-26 items
I-36 items
I-36 items
II-46 items
II-16 items
II-56 items
I-26 items
III-16 items
II-46 items
IV-16 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Language Arts Standards / AHSGE or Activities
2nd 9 weeks / Writing and Language
7. Write in persuasive, expository, and narrative modes using an abbreviated writing process in timed and untimed situations.
  • Critique content, literary elements, and word choice
  • Use a variety of sentence patterns
  • Evaluate opinions for supporting details and bias
  • Use active and passive voice when appropriate
8. Write in a variety of genres for various audiences and occasions, both formal and informal, using an attention-getting opening and an effective conclusion.
  • Develop an effective voice suitable for audience and purpose
11. Demonstrate correct use of commas with parenthetical expressions and after introductory adverbial clauses and correct use of semicolons before conjunctive adverbs and in compound sentences with no conjunction.
12. Demonstrate correct use of singular and plural collective nouns and words with alternate accepted forms; pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and gender; and nominative, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
13. Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with singular and plural subjects, including subjects compound in form and singular in meaning and subjects plural in form and singular in meaning; intervening prepositional and appositive phrases; and correlative conjunctions.
14. Edit for incorrect shifts in verb tense in paragraphs, use of verbals, use of dangling participles and misplaced modifiers, and parallelism in phrases. / Compose a variety of writing attending to the compositional elements – purpose, audience, content, and organization
II-15 items
III-15 items
I-7 5 items
Grade 10 writing assessment
II-15 items
II-25 items
III-15 items
I-75 items
IV-25 items
I-15 items
I-45 items
I-65 items
I-35 items
I-55 items
I-85 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Reading and Literature Standards / AHSGE or Activities
3rd 9 weeks / 1. Draw conclusions and make inferences about characters, motives, intentions, and attitudes in short stories, drama, poetry, novels, and essays and other nonfiction texts.
  • Identify major historical developments in language and literature in America from the beginnings to 1900
  • Use context clues to determine meaning
  • Identify sequence
  • Summarize passages
2. Identify and interpret literary elements and devices – analogy, personification, and implied purpose.
  • Identify and interpret figurative language and imagery
  • Interpret tone from author’s word choice
3. Make inferences about effects when passage provides cause; infer cause when passage provides effect; make inferences, decisions, and predictions from tables, charts, and other text features; and identify the outcome or product of a set of directions after reading informational texts.
  • Follow complex or embedded directions
  • Distinguish author’s opinion from factual statements
  • Determine main idea and supporting details
  • Summarize passages
  • Determine sequence of events
4. Recognize fallacious or illogical thought in essays, editorials, and other informational texts.
  • Evaluate strength of argument
  • Recognize propaganda
Literature
5. Compare literary components of various pre-twentieth century American authors’ styles.
6. Determine word meaning using word structure and context clues. / II-26 items
II-3 6 items
IV-16 items
I-26 items
II-5 6 items
III-26 items
III-36 items
II-36 items
IV-26 items
I-36 items
I-36 items
II-46 items
II-16 items
II-56 items
I-26 items
III-16 items
II-46 items
IV-16 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Language Arts Standards / AHSGE or Activities
3rd 9 weeks / Writing and Language
7. Write in persuasive, expository, and narrative modes using an abbreviated writing process in timed and untimed situations.
  • Critique content, literary elements, and word choice
  • Use a variety of sentence patterns
  • Evaluate opinions for supporting details and bias
  • Use active and passive voice when appropriate
8. Write in a variety of genres for various audiences and occasions, both formal and informal, using an attention-getting opening and an effective conclusion.
  • Develop an effective voice suitable for audience and purpose
9. Apply principles of Standard English by adjusting vocabulary and style for the occasion.
10. Justify a thesis statement with supporting details from American literature prior to the twentieth century.
11. Demonstrate correct use of commas with parenthetical expressions and after introductory adverbial clauses and correct use of semicolons before conjunctive adverbs and in compound sentences with no conjunction.
12. Demonstrate correct use of singular and plural collective nouns and words with alternate accepted forms; pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and gender; and nominative, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
13. Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with singular and plural subjects, including subjects compound in form and singular in meaning and subjects plural in form and singular in meaning; intervening prepositional and appositive phrases; and correlative conjunctions.
14. Edit for incorrect shifts in verb tense in paragraphs, use of verbals, use of dangling participles and misplaced modifiers, and parallelism in phrases.
Oral and Visual Communication
17. Critique oral and visual presentations for fallacies in logic. / Compose a variety of writing attending to the compositional elements – purpose, audience, content, and organization
II-15 items
III-15 items
I-7 5 items
Grade 10 writing assessment
II-15 items
II-25 items
III-15 items
I-75 items
I-95 items
II-15 items
II-25 items
IV-25 items
I-15 items
I-45 items
I-65 items
I-35 items
I-55 items
I-85 items
Use an evaluation guide to determine the strength of argument in oral presentations

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Reading and Literature Standards / AHSGE or Activities
4th 9 weeks / 1. Draw conclusions and make inferences about characters, motives, intentions, and attitudes in short stories, drama, poetry, novels, and essays and other nonfiction texts.
  • Identify major historical developments in language and literature in America from the beginnings to 1900
  • Use context clues to determine meaning
  • Identify sequence
  • Summarize passages
2. Identify and interpret literary elements and devices – analogy, personification, and implied purpose.
  • Identify and interpret figurative language and imagery
  • Interpret tone from author’s word choice
3. Make inferences about effects when passage provides cause; infer cause when passage provides effect; make inferences, decisions, and predictions from tables, charts, and other text features; and identify the outcome or product of a set of directions after reading informational texts.
  • Follow complex or embedded directions
  • Distinguish author’s opinion from factual statements
  • Determine main idea and supporting details
  • Summarize passages
  • Determine sequence of events
4. Recognize fallacious or illogical thought in essays, editorials, and other informational texts.
  • Evaluate strength of argument
  • Recognize propaganda
Literature
6. Determine word meaning using word structure and context clues. / II-26 items
II-3 6 items
IV-16 items
I-26 items
II-5 6 items
III-26 items
III-36 items
II-36 items
IV-26 items
I-36 items
I-36 items
II-46 items
II-16 items
II-56 items
I-26 items
III-16 items
II-46 items
IV-16 items

PACING GUIDE

Grade 10 Language Arts and Reading

Grading Period / Language Arts Standards / AHSGE or Activities
4th 9 weeks / Writing and Language
7. Write in persuasive, expository, and narrative modes using an abbreviated writing process in timed and untimed situations.
  • Critique content, literary elements, and word choice
  • Use a variety of sentence patterns
  • Evaluate opinions for supporting details and bias
  • Use active and passive voice when appropriate
8. Write in a variety of genres for various audiences and occasions, both formal and informal, using an attention-getting opening and an effective conclusion.
  • Develop an effective voice suitable for audience and purpose
11. Demonstrate correct use of commas with parenthetical expressions and after introductory adverbial clauses and correct use of semicolons before conjunctive adverbs and in compound sentences with no conjunction.
12. Demonstrate correct use of singular and plural collective nouns and words with alternate accepted forms; pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and gender; and nominative, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
13. Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with singular and plural subjects, including subjects compound in form and singular in meaning and subjects plural in form and singular in meaning; intervening prepositional and appositive phrases; and correlative conjunctions.
14. Edit for incorrect shifts in verb tense in paragraphs, use of verbals, use of dangling participles and misplaced modifiers, and parallelism in phrases.
Research and Inquiry
15. Use the research process to document and organize information to support a thesis on a literary or nonliterary topic.
  • Manage information by locating, selecting, retrieving, and evaluating primary and secondary sources while using available technology responsibly
  • Differentiate among plagiarized, paraphrased, and appropriately cited selections
16. Explain the purpose and benefits of using predicting, summarizing, underlining, outlining, note taking, and reviewing as part of personal study skills.
  • Explaining when skimming and scanning are appropriate in studying materials
/ Compose a variety of writing attending to the compositional elements – purpose, audience, content, and organization
II-15 items
III-15 items
I-7 5 items
Grade 10 writing assessment
II-15 items
II-25 items
III-15 items
I-75 items
IV-25 items
I-15 items
I-45 items
I-65 items
I-35 items
I-55 items
I-85 items
Conduct a research project demonstrating competence with the research process and the appropriate use of and citations for sources and information

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