This unit will address the following Language Arts standards for grades 9-12 as approved by the New Haven Board of Education.
Content Standard 1.0 Reading
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Students will demonstrate strategic reading skills before, during and after reading.
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Students will predict, reread, sequence, infer, paraphrase and ask questions.
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Students will give an initial personal reaction to text and describe its general content and purpose.
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Students will construct an interpretation and/or explanation of text.
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Students will describe the text- initial reaction, description of content and purpose.
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Students will participate in a wide variety of reading experiences.
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Students will read literary, informational and persuasive materials.
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Students will compose narrative, expository and persuasive pieces related to selections read.
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Students will exhibit comprehension by responding to a wide variety of texts through oral, visual, verbal, artistic, musical and technology formats.
Content Standard 2.0 Writing
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Students will demonstrate successful writing behaviors.
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Students will write to define, clarify and develop ideas and express creatively.
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Students will participate in a wide variety of writing.
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Students will demonstrate effective use of the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
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Students will reflect, use feedback and assessments and confer with others to plan for improvement.
Content Standard 6.0 English/Integrated Language Arts
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Students will explain how literature represents, recreates and explores human experiences through language and imagination.
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Students will create personal and expressive writing.
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Students will write observations and descriptions.
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Students will create narratives and original stories.
