Students will: 

• Expand their knowledge of words based on a text.
• Describe a character as static or dynamic using evidence from the text to support their thinking.
• Analyze the conflict in a text and describe how conflicts impact the plot.
• Describe how settings can impact the events of the plot.
• Analyze conflicts and describe how characters or settings can impact the events of the plot using complete sentences with correct capitalization and end punctuation.
• Compare and contrast texts to deepen their understanding of a text or topic.
• Analyze details in a text to describe the theme.
• Use a dictionary and context to identify what an author is communicating about a topic.
• Find details in the text that support the author’s ideas.
• Read closely to determine how the author’s purpose influences the meaning of an informational text.
• Use the dictionary to find the meaning of unknown words.
• Use the author’s writing choices to understand the meaning and tone of a text.
• Analyze and make conceptual connections across literary and informational.
• Respond to a prompt in writing and share relevant ideas with their peers.
• Revise fragments and edit sentences to include correct capitalization and end punctuation.
• Revise fragments and edit sentences to include correct capitalization and end punctuation in provided examples and their writing.
• Use different types of sentences to communicate their ideas.
• Defend their position on a topic with reasons and precise, relevant evidence.
• Synthesize their ideas and use evidence to support their conclusions.
• Agree or politely disagree with others' ideas by using evidence like descriptions, facts, and examples to support their ideas.
• Use different media and visual tools to organize and create content that supports the purpose of their presentation, using multiple ways to communicate.
• Independently read and analyze conceptually complex texts across genres and disciplines, applying advanced reading strategies to synthesize knowledge, evaluate evidence, and build disciplinary vocabulary. (Honors)
• Analyze the interplay of theme, conflict, and character development across texts and evaluate how authors use structure and literary elements to convey meaning and perspective. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors craft style and point of view to shape tone, convey meaning, and influence readers’ interpretations across diverse literary forms. (Honors)
• Analyze how literary elements interact to develop theme and meaning, and evaluate how genre and form shape an author’s approach to similar topics across texts. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors develop and structure ideas or arguments in complex informational texts, assessing the clarity, relevance, and credibility of evidence to build and critique meaning. (Honors)
• Compose complex narratives, expository, persuasive, and reflective texts that demonstrate sophisticated control of language, organization, and evidence from multiple credible sources to advance nuanced ideas and engage diverse audiences. (Honors)
• Skillfully manipulate complex sentence structures and nuanced grammatical conventions to create clear, precise, and stylistically sophisticated writing and speech, adapting language use effectively across formal and informal contexts. (Honors)
• Design and produce sophisticated multimodal presentations that strategically integrate diverse communication modes and media to persuasively convey complex ideas and engage targeted audiences. (Honors)

Students will: 

• Use the connections between synonyms to better understand the shades of meaning in words with similar definitions.
• Analyze how the central conflict and key elements of the plot affect the development of the story.
• Analyze how the central conflict and key elements of the plot affect the development of the story.
• Discuss the theme of a text and explain how it develops respectfully with their peers by building on their ideas, contributing their own well-supported opinions, and sharing responsibility for the group’s success.
• Identify and analyze the exposition in the initial pages of a novel by examining the setting, characters, and situation to understand how the author sets up the story.
• Analyze how an author’s use of poetic forms reveals the author’s perspective adds to the meaning of the text.
• Analyze how an author’s purpose shows their perspective, like their beliefs and biases, and how it affects the meaning of an informational text.
• Analyze how an author develops ideas in a text by examining the order of points and evaluating the impact of word choice and structure.
• Discuss the exposition, conflict, and characters in a book club novel respectfully with their peers by building on their ideas, contributing a well-supported opinion, and sharing responsibility for the group’s success.
• Analyze the organizational patterns, verb tense, connotation, and key details in a nonfiction text to understand the contributions and challenges of historical figures, such as women in aviation, and explain how these elements support the authors' purpose.
• Explain how static and dynamic characters, as well as the roles of protagonist and antagonist, influence the events of a plot.
• Analyze how an author develops ideas in a text by examining the order of points and evaluating the impact of that and structure.
• Compare and contrast texts in different forms to understand how they approach similar themes and topics in distinct ways.
• Discuss characterization and the development of themes in a book club novel respectfully with their peers by building on their ideas, contributing well-supported opinions, and sharing responsibility for the group’s success.
• Analyze and make conceptual connections across literary and informational texts.
• Discuss how an author’s style adds to the meaning of a book club novel respectfully with peers by building on their ideas, contributing their own well-supported opinions, and sharing responsibility for the group’s success.
• Respond to a prompt in writing and defend their conclusions with clear reasons and precise, relevant evidence, such as facts, details, and examples.
• Correctly cite and punctuate evidence from the text to support ideas and opinions.
• Write reflectively in response to reading by using details, examples, and evidence from the text to demonstrate thinking.
• Use the same verb tense throughout writing to make it clear and consistent.
• Write a new stanza with a different tone and opinion of Icarus by using poetic forms like line breaks and punctuation to express clear ideas.
• Respond to essential questions by using evidence from texts, and make predictions about how a book club novel might address these questions based on the characters and plot.
• Review writing for correct capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing
• Analyze the interplay of theme, conflict, and character development across texts and evaluate how authors use structure and literary elements to convey meaning and perspective. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors craft style and point of view to shape tone, convey meaning, and influence readers’ interpretations across diverse literary forms. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors develop and structure ideas or arguments in complex informational texts, assessing the clarity, relevance, and credibility of evidence to build and critique meaning. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors strategically use language, structure, and text features to shape meaning, reveal perspective, and influence readers in complex informational texts. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors develop and shape ideas within and across texts, analyzing how structure, emphasis, and reasoning reveal purpose and perspective. (Honors)
• Compose complex narratives, expository, persuasive, and reflective texts that demonstrate sophisticated control of language, organization, and evidence from multiple credible sources to advance nuanced ideas and engage diverse audiences. (Honors)

Students will: 

• Analyze how the elements of an author’s style are used to influence and develop tone.
• Analyze how an author’s organizational pattern affects the author’s purpose and help the reader understand the text.
• Defend conclusions or positions with reasons and precise, relevant evidence from complex texts to support claims.
• Collect, organize, and combine information from multiple sources using different note-taking formats.
• Regularly engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build their knowledge, vocabulary, and stamina.
• Respond to a text by drawing multiple pieces of evidence from complex texts to support their claims, conclusions, and inferences, quoting or paraphrasing accurately and identifying where the evidence is located.
• Engage in reading a series of conceptually related texts organized around topics of study to build their knowledge and vocabulary.
• Recognize and use pronoun-antecedent agreement when speaking and writing.
• Construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to communicate ideas clearly and add variety to writing.
• Arrange phrases and clauses in a sentence and use correct subject-verb agreement to make their writing clearer, more interesting, and easier to understand.
• Arrange phrases and clauses in a sentence and use correct subject-verb agreement to make writing clearer, more interesting, and easier to understand.
• Use verb tenses consistently across paragraphs to make their writing clear and easy to follow.
• Recognize and consistently spell commonly used words correctly.
• Collect, organize, and combine information from multiple sources using different note-taking formats.
• Evaluate and analyze each source to decide if it is reliable and relevant, and determine which information to include or exclude.
• Quote, summarize, and paraphrase research findings from sources, using their own words to avoid plagiarism.
• Organize and share their findings in both formal and informal oral and written formats.
• Demonstrate ethical and responsible use of all sources.
• Create a main idea statement and provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop throughout the text.
• Analyze how the author presents ideas or events in historical, scientific, or technical texts, including the order in which they are introduced and developed.
• Analyze how the author presents ideas or events in historical, scientific, or technical texts, including the order in which they are introduced and developed.
• Follow the argument and specific claims in a text and decide if all the evidence is relevant or if any irrelevant evidence was included.
• Analyze how an author uses text features to help the reader understand the text better.
• Analyze how an author’s word choice, organizational pattern, and language structure affect the author’s purpose and help the reader understand the text.
• Analyze how an author’s purpose reflects their perspective, such as beliefs, assumptions, and biases, and how it influences the meaning of an informational text.
• Analyze ideas within and between selections, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, or sections contribute to the development and meaning of the ideas.
• Compare and contrast how two or more authors writing about the same topic present key information by emphasizing different facts, opinions, and reasoning.
• Describe the stated or implied themes of texts and analyze how they develop throughout the text using specific details.
• Explain how static and dynamic characters influence plot events.
• Analyze how elements of an author’s style contribute to the meaning in prose and poetry.
• Explain how static and dynamic characters influence plot events.
• Analyze how elements of an author’s style contribute to the meaning in prose and poetry.
• Analyze how the elements of an author’s style are used to influence and develop tone.
• Explain how elements of stories or dramas interact, including how settings shape and influence characters and the plot.
• Use context, such as the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph, or a word’s position or function in a sentence, to determine the meaning of words or phrases.
• Apply knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to predict the meaning of unfamiliar words.
  distinguish among the subtle differences in the meanings or connotations of words with similar denotations.
• Use print and digital dictionaries and other resources to find the meaning, pronunciation, origin, and part of speech of words.
• Write persuasively by supporting a clear point of view with strong claims, relevant evidence, and clear reasoning that are logically organized.
• Compose a thesis statement that clearly states their position or explains the purpose.
• Establish a central idea that supports their thesis and keeps their writing organized to match the form and topic.
• Defend conclusions or positions with reasons and precise, relevant evidence, such as facts, definitions, details, quotations, and examples.
• Use transitions within and between paragraphs to show changes in writing and explain how ideas are connected.
• Develop voice and tone in their writing by using vivid and precise language to enhance its meaning.
  provide a concluding statement or section to wrap up their writing.
• Self-edit and peer-edit writing for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
• Explain how writers use persuasive and informative techniques to influence what people think or do.
• Compare and contrast how effective different types of media—like what is heard, seen, or read—are at reaching their audience based on who made it, how it’s presented, and its purpose.
• Independently read and analyze conceptually complex texts across genres and disciplines, applying advanced reading strategies to synthesize knowledge, evaluate evidence, and build disciplinary vocabulary. (Honors)
• Analyze and apply advanced word relationships, etymology, and figurative language to enhance precision, tone, and meaning in academic discourse and literary analysis. (Honors)
• Analyze the interplay of theme, conflict, and character development across texts and evaluate how authors use structure and literary elements to convey meaning and perspective. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors craft style and point of view to shape tone, convey meaning, and influence readers’ interpretations across diverse literary forms. (Honors)
• Analyze how literary elements interact to develop theme and meaning, and evaluate how genre and form shape an author’s approach to similar topics across texts. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors strategically use language, structure, and text features to shape meaning, reveal perspective, and influence readers in complex informational texts. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors develop and shape ideas within and across texts, analyzing how structure, emphasis, and reasoning reveal purpose and perspective. (Honors)
• Compose complex narratives, expository, persuasive, and reflective texts that demonstrate sophisticated control of language, organization, and evidence from multiple credible sources to advance nuanced ideas and engage diverse audiences. (Honors)
• Independently revise and edit writing for clarity, sophistication of language, and cohesion, demonstrating mastery of advanced grammar, syntax, and mechanics to enhance style and precision. (Honors)

Students will:

• Ask and answer deep questions to keep a discussion going and give helpful feedback to others.
• Reflect on how well they work with others in a group and find ways to improve participation and teamwork.
• Be aware of how they speak and use body language to match audience, topic, and purpose so that their message is clear and effective.
• Memorize and recite a poem using expression and tone that match its meaning and voice.
• Read challenging texts smoothly and with expression to help understand and check reading comprehension to fix mistakes.
• Use evidence from challenging texts to support ideas in discussions and writing by quoting or paraphrasing accurately and explaining how the evidence connects to statements made.
• Read and discuss related texts on a topic to build knowledge and vocabulary, using what they've learned to help them understand new ideas.
• Use precise adjectives and adverbs to make their speaking and writing more detailed and interesting.
• Write complete sentences with correct punctuation and avoid run-ons and comma splices.
• Recognize and correctly spell words they use often in their writing.
• Identify the main idea of a text and summarize how key events or ideas develop throughout the text.
• Follow an argument in a text, evaluate the claims, and decide if the evidence is relevant or unnecessary.
• Examine an author's word choice, text structure, and organization to understand their purpose and how it helps me as a reader.
• Examine how an author's purpose and perspective, including their beliefs and biases, affect the meaning of an informational text.
• Identify stated or implied themes in a text and explain how they develop using specific details.
• Analyze how the central conflict and key story elements shape the development of the plot.
• Explain how static and dynamic characters, as well as the protagonist and antagonist, impact the events of a story.
• Analyze how an author's style—like word choice, dialogue, and sound devices—adds to the meaning of stories and poems.
• Analyze how an author’s use of figurative language helps shape the tone of a text.
• Explain how an author shows different characters' points of view and how those perspectives impact how the reader understands the text.
• Explain how different elements of a story or drama, like the setting, influence and shape the characters and plot.
• Compare and contrast different types of texts, like stories and poems or historical novels and fantasy, by looking at how they approach similar themes and topics.
• Use context, like the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph, to figure out the meaning of words or phrases.
• Use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Analyze how figurative language, like similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification, is created and what it means.
• Tell the difference between the subtle meanings and connotations of words that have similar definitions.
• Use different word-reference materials, both print and digital, to find out the origin, pronunciation, meaning, and parts of speech of words.
• Write stories from real or imagined experiences, or change a story, using specific words and transitions to develop characters, show the order of events, and move between different times or places.
• Use writing to reflect on what they're thinking after reading, using details, examples, and evidence from the text to explain their ideas.
• Revise their writing to make it clearer by improving word choice, varying sentences, and creating smooth transitions between paragraphs.
• Evaluate how authors develop and structure ideas or arguments in complex informational texts, assessing the clarity, relevance, and credibility of evidence to build and critique meaning. (Honors)
• Analyze how literary elements interact to develop theme and meaning, and evaluate how genre and form shape an author’s approach to similar topics across texts. (Honors)
• Analyze and apply advanced word relationships, etymology, and figurative language to enhance precision, tone, and meaning in academic discourse and literary analysis. (Honors)
• Evaluate how authors strategically use language, structure, and text features to shape meaning, reveal perspective, and influence readers in complex informational texts. (Honors)
• Independently read and analyze conceptually complex texts across genres and disciplines, applying advanced reading strategies to synthesize knowledge, evaluate evidence, and build disciplinary vocabulary. (Honors)
• Deliver polished, persuasive oral presentations that demonstrate advanced organization, nuanced language, and dynamic audience engagement, incorporating credible evidence and appropriately adapting delivery for diverse purposes and settings. (Honors)