The 10th Grade English Language Arts standards will prepare you for both college and career. The standards are organized in four sections—Reading (Literature and Informational Text), Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language.

Literature

  • Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis
  • Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail it development of the course of text
  • Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot.
  • Determine the meaning of words.
  • Analyze how an author’s choice order events within a text and create such as effects as mystery, tension, or surprise
  • Analyze a particular point or view reflected in a work of early American literature to 1900.
  • Analyze the representation of a subject or key scene in to different artistic mediums.
  • Analyze how an author draws on and transformsource material in a specific work.
  • Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inference drawn from the text.
  • Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of a text.
  • Determine the meanings of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
  • Determine the author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view.
  • Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false statements and fallacious reasoning.
  • Analyze seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century foundation United States documents of historical and literary significance. (theme, purpose, rhetorical features)

Writing

  • Write argument to support claims in an analysis or substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
  • Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
  • Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to tasks, purpose, and audience.
  • Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting, or trying a new approach.
  • Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • Conduct research projects demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
  • Gather relevant information from multiple printing and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
  • Draw evidence from literary or informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.
  • Write and edit a work so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (MLA) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.

Language

  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
  • Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
  • Demonstrate understand of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
  • Acquire and use accurate a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a work or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
  • Use parallel structure, use various types of phrases (noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, and absolute) and clauses (independent, dependent; noun, relative, adverbial) to convey specific meaning and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.
  • Apply rules of subject/verb agreement when the subject is compound in form but singular in meaning and when the subject is plural in form but singular in mean
  • Use semicolons and colons correctly.