9th -10th Grade English Language Arts Common Core Georgia Performance Standards

9th -10th Grade English Language Arts Common Core Georgia Performance Standards

1. ELACC9-10W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content

   • Blooms: Create
     • Students will write an analysis of Dr. Martin Luther King speech, "I Have a Dream" and identify the authors manipulation of language citing in-text citations with 85% accuracy.
   • Blooms: Analyze
   • Blooms: Understand
     • Students will review the effects of the March on Washington in the Civil Rights Movement and highlight its significance in a news broadcast with 85% accuracy.
       • Assessment: Students will be assessed on historical, accuracy, creativity, originality, interpretation, and organization.

2. ELACC9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

   • Blooms: Analyze
   • Blooms: Evaluate
     • Students will use the text, "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie to describe elements in the text that reveal the significance of the main characters in the work.

3. ELACC9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

   • Blooms: Apply
     • Students will be able to use key target vocabulary when speaking and writing about different heroes.