Term 2, Module 2 Standards and Objective

STANDARDS

• R.3—Analyze character development, analyze how author unfolds events to develop ideas and make connections
• R.6—Determine author’s POV and purpose, how the author uses rhetoric to communicate POV, analyze POV from a multi-cultural literature with multi-cultural perspectives
• R.10—Read and comprehension grade-level texts
• L.2—Demonstrate command of English conventions including capitalization, punctuation (including the colon and semicolon), and spelling
• L.4—Determine meanings of unknown words including figurative language, denotation, and connotation by using context clues and reference materials, understand how word forms change part of speech
• L.5—Interpret figures of speech including figurative language, nuances, euphemisms, symbolism and oxymorons and their purpose

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• I can research the etymology of a word and explain how its parts contribute to the overall meaning.
• I can conduct a character analysis by analyzing what a character says and does in a story.
• I can identify and interpret figurative language within a text including metaphors, similes and personification.
• I can identify the tone in a piece of literature based on the author's word choices and descriptions.