Overview of Standards: Module 3

• I can cite textual evidence.
• I can determine a theme and analyze its development.
• I can analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone.
• I can analyze point of view from various perspectives.
• I can understand the function of prepositions and interjections.
• I can write a solid informative essay.
• I can understand how words are formed using word cells.

Module 3 Standards

RL, I.1   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 

RL.I.2  Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. 

RL.4 Analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

RL.6  Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from a minority perspective, drawing on a wide reading of multi-cultural literature. 

RI.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose. 

W.2 Informative/Explanatory Writing (whole writing process) 

L.4   Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrase; use context clues.