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State Standards for Sophomore English

ELA10C1-The students demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of converntions and grammar in both written and spoken formats. ELA10C2-The student demonstrates understanding of manuscript form, realzing that different forms of writing required different formats. ELA10LSV1-The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions. ELA10LSV2-The student formatulates reasoned judgements about written and oral communication. The student delivers focused, coherent, and polished presentations that convey a clar and distinct perspective, demonstatrate solid reasoning, and combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, expositin, persuasion, and description. ELA10RC2-The student participates in discussions related to curricular lelarning in all subject areas. ELA10RC1-The student reads a variety of 25 grade level appropriate books (approximately 1,000,000 per year). ELA10RC3-The student acquires new vocabulary in each content area and uses it correctly. ELA10RC4-The student extablished a context for information acquired by reading across subject areas. ELA10RL1-The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence in a variety of genres and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation. ELA10RL1(3)-The student identifies, responds to and analyzes the effects of diction, tone, mood, syntax, sound, form, figurative language, and structing of poems as they relate to meaning. ELA10RL1(4)-The student identifies and analyzes types of dramatic literature (e.g. tragedy and comedy),and analyzes the structures, themes, and elements (e.g. monologue, soliloquy, aside, foil, staire, dramtic irony, character types) of dramatic literature. ELA10RL4-The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents. ELA10RL5-The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing. ELA10W1-The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signeals closure. ELA10W2-The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres. ElA10W3-The student uses research and technology to support writing.ELA10W3d-The student integrates quotations and citations into a written text while maintaining the flow of ideas. ELA10W4-The student practices both timed and proces writing and, when applicable, uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evlauate. ELA10W4b&f-The student revises writing to improve the logic and coherence of the organziation and controlling perspective. The student edits writing to improve word choice, grammar, punctuation, etc..