Current Events Standards

Here are the standards that you are working on when doing the current events assignment:


Performance Indicator 03--> ELA1.12.RE1.03::-->
Students analyze and synthesize information from different sources by making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, subjects, and the world at large:
employ a range of post-reading practices to think about new learning and to plan future learning

Standard ELA2.12.RE1: Language for Literary Response and Expression
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

• Performance Indicator 01--> ELA2.12.RE1.01::-->
  Students recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situations from short stories, novels, plays, film and video productions, poems, and essays:
• read and discuss literary criticism
• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaden perspective

Performance Indicator 02--> ELA2.12.RE1.02::-->

• Students read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives.

Performance Indicator 02--> ELA2.11.RE1.02::-->

• Students read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives:
• monitor their own comprehension by questioning, reviewing, revising, and rereading to enhance overall comprehension

Performance Indicator 07--> ELA2.11.RE1.07::-->
Students recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situation

Performance Indicator 02--> ELA1.11.WR2.02::-->
Students analyze and integrate data, facts, and ideas to communicate information.

Standard ELA3.11.WR2: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
Performance Indicator 01--> ELA3.11.WR2.01::-->
Students develop critiques from more than one perspective, such as historical, cultural, and social.

Performance Indicator 02--> ELA2.11.WR2.02::-->

• Students write interpretive and responsive essays of approximately three to five pages to:
  express judgments and support them through references to the text, using direct quotations and paraphrase
• explain how the author's use of literary devices affects meaning
• examine development and impact of literary elements, such as character (protagonist and antagonist), action (conflict, intrigue, suspense, and climax), and setting (locale and time period), in literary texts and performances
• compare and contrast the treatment of literary elements in different genres and by more than one author
• use literary criticism to expand personal analysis of the literary texts
  engage in a variety of prewriting experiences, such as using a variety of visual representations, to express interpretations, feelings, and new insights