Project Success: Level 3

correlated to

·  College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards

·  Common Core Standards for ELA (Grades 9-10)

·  GED Reasoning through Language Assessment (RLA) Targets

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards / Common Core Standards for
English Language Arts, Grade 9-10 / GED Testing Service’s Reasoning Through Language Arts Assessment Targets (RLAs) / Project Success, Level 3 /
Reading: Literature
Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. / R.3.2 Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts. / Project Success 3: For related material see: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Make inferences, 82-83
Active Teach DVD: Use Audio Bank of article about body language.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. / R.2.6 Identify a theme, or identify which element(s) in a text support a theme.
R.5.1 Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts, including how events are important in relation to plot or conflict; how people, ideas, or events are connected, developed, or distinguished; how events contribute to theme or relate to key ideas; or how a setting or context shapes structure and meaning.
R.3.5 Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts. / Project Success 3: Students can use the following skills to explore literary selections: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Skim to find the main idea, 22-23
Scan for details, 40-41; Writing: main idea activity, 56
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. / R.3.2 Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts.
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts, including how events are important in relation to plot or conflict; how people, ideas, or events are connected, developed, or distinguished; how events contribute to theme or relate to key ideas; or how a setting or context shapes structure and meaning. / Project Success 3: For related material see: Model biography, 56; also see: Write biography of your partner, 57; Write a Short Story, 144
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4 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). / R.4.1/L4.1 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining connotative and figurative meanings from context.
R.4.3/L4.3 Analyze the impact of specific words, phrases, or figurative language in text, with a focus on an author's intent to convey information or construct an argument. / Project Success 3: Vocabulary Study: Synonyms, 9, Antonym, 23, Context Clues, 121; Vocabulary Learning Strategy: , Group by Meanings, 32, Learn Words That Go Together, 46; Unit Vocabulary: Word List, 162–166
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of vocabulary skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5 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. / R.3.1 Order sequences of events in texts.
R.3.2 Make inferences about plot/sequence of events, characters/people, settings, or ideas in texts.
R.3.3 Analyze relationships within texts, including how events are important in relation to plot or conflict; how people, ideas, or events are connected, developed, or distinguished; how events contribute to theme or relate to key ideas; or how a setting or context shapes structure and meaning. / Project Success 3: For related material see: Reading: Understand antecedents, 68-69, Identify cause and effect, 112-113, Signal Words, 120-121; also see: Model biography, 56; Write a Short Story, 144
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.6 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. / Project Success 3: For related material see: Biography of a partner, 57; Vocabulary Learning Strategy: Write Your First Language, 60
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills and writing skills.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7 Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). / Project Success is a digital and print English program focusing on students’ future aspirations and on their current realities. Audio accounts of each literary selection are seamlessly integrated in the multimedia platform.
Project Success 3: Reading, 8-9, 22-23, 40-41, 50-51, 68-69, 82-83, 92-93, 112-113, 120-121, 140-141
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
(RL.9-10.8 not applicable to literature)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9 Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). / Project Success is a digital and print English program focusing on students’ future aspirations and on their current realities. Readings provide opportunities for students to match readings to a variety of sources, illustrations, and types of information.
Project Success 3: Reading, 8-9, 22-23, 40-41, 50-51, 68-69, 82-83, 92-93, 112-113, 120-121, 140-141
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.10 By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9-10 text complexity band independently and proficiently. / Each lesson in Project Success includes readings focusing on real-world activities of students in our dynamic world. Students can use the reading skills developed in the program to analyze fiction.
Project Success 3: Reading: Making predictions, 8-9, Skim to find the main idea, 22-23, Scan for details, 40-41, Supporting illustrations, 50-51, Understand antecedents, 68-69, Make inferences, 82-83, Determining the author’s purpose, 92-93, Identify cause and effect, 112-113, Signal Words, 120-121, Identify facts and opinions, 140-141
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
Reading: Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. / R.2.3 Make sentence level inferences about details that support main ideas.
R.2.7 Make evidence based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text, including clarifications, extensions, or applications of main ideas to new situations.
R.3.4 Infer relationships between ideas in a text (e.g., an implicit cause and effect, parallel, or contrasting relationship).
W.1 Determine the details of what is explicitly stated and make logical inferences or valid claim that square with textual evidence. / Project Success 3: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Skim to find the main idea, 22-23, Scan for details, 40-41, Make inferences, 82-83; also see all: After You Read activities, 9, 23, 41, 51, 69, 83, 93, 113, 121, 141
Project Success 3: In the What do you think? activity at the end of most lessons, students analyze, evaluate, and infer the content of the lesson to other contexts and situations. See pages: 6, 10, 16, 20, 24, 30, 34, 38, 44, 48, 52, 58, 62, 66, 72, 76, 80, 86, 90, 94, 98, 100, 104, 108, 114, 118, 122, 128, 132,136, 142
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. / R2.1 Comprehend explicit details and main ideas in text.
R.2.2 Summarize details and ideas in text.
R.2.4 Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs or whole texts.
R.2.5 Determine which detail(s) support(s) a main idea.
R.2.8 Draw conclusions or make generalizations that require synthesis of multiple main ideas in text.
R.3.5 Analyze the roles that details play in complex literary or informational texts. / Project Success 3: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Skim to find the main idea, 22-23, Scan for details, 40-41, Make inferences, 82-83; also see all: After You Read activities, 9, 23, 41, 51, 69, 83, 93, 113, 121, 141
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.3 Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them. / R.5.2 Analyze the structural relationship between adjacent sections of text (e.g., how one paragraph develops or refines a key concept or how one idea is distinguished from another). / Project Success 3: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Identify cause and effect, 112-113, Signal Words, 120-121; also see: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Making predictions, 8-9, Skim to find the main idea, 22-23, Supporting illustrations, 50-51, Understand antecedents, 68-69, Identify facts and opinions, 140-141; Writing: Write about cause and effect, 64-65
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
Craft and Structure
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.4 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). / R.4.1/L4.1 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining connotative and figurative meanings from context.
R.4.2/L4.2 Analyze how meaning or tone is affected when one word is replaced with another.
R.4.3/L4.3 Analyze the impact of specific words, phrases, or figurative language in text, with a focus on an author's intent to convey information or construct an argument. / Project Success 3: Vocabulary Study: Synonyms, 9, Antonym, 23, Context Clues, 121; Vocabulary Learning Strategy: , Group by Meanings, 32, Learn Words That Go Together, 46; Unit Vocabulary: Word List, 162–166
Active Teach DVD: Flashcards include correct pronunciation of unit word lists.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of vocabulary skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.5 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). / R.5.1 Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
R.5.4 Analyze how the structure of a paragraph, section, or passage shapes meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or supports an author's purpose. / Project Success 3: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Identify cause and effect, 112-113, Signal Words, 120-121; also see: Reading (text, activities, and skill): Making predictions, 8-9, Skim to find the main idea, 22-23, Supporting illustrations, 50-51, Understand antecedents, 68-69, Identify facts and opinions, 140-141; Writing: Write about cause and effect, 64-65
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.6 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.6 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. / R.6.1 Determine an author's point of view or purpose of a text.
R.6.2 Analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others or how an author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints
R.6.3 Infer an author's implicit as well as explicit purposes based on details in text.
R.6.4 Analyze how an author uses rhetorical techniques to advance his or her point of view or achieve a specific purpose (e.g., analogies, enumerations, repetition and parallelism, juxtaposition of opposites, qualifying statements).
R.5.4 Analyze how the structure of a paragraph, section, or passage shapes meaning, emphasizes key ideas, or supports an author's purpose. / Project Success 3: Reading: Reading: Determining the author’s purpose, 92–93; Identify facts and opinions, 140–141. Students can examine the purpose of each text with the following: Reading, 8–9, 22–23, 40–41, 50–51, 68–69, 82–83, 112–113, 120–121; Writing: Write a letter of opinion, 42–43; Write a letter of complaint, 126–127
Active Teach DVD: Includes recordings of all reading selections.
MyEnglishLab: An online component providing additional practice of reading skills.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 / CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. / R.9.1/R.7.1 Draw specific comparisons between two texts that address similar themes or topics or between information presented in different formats (e.g., between information presented in text and information or data summarized in a table or timeline).