Carolyn L. Streets
Common Core English Language Arts Standards, College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading focus on building foundations for college and career readiness. The standards emphasize that students must ‘read widely and deeply from a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts to gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements.” Such texts include stories, dramas, and poems from diverse cultures and time periods. Common Core English Language Arts Standards for middle school addressed in this unit include:
Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Craft and Structure:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.4
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.5
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.6
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
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