Andover Public Schools - Andover, Massachusetts
English/Language Arts Standards and Benchmarks - Grade 9/2004
Strand 1:
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LANGUAGE (L)
Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal and formal discussions in small
and large groups.
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Identify and practice different speaking roles within a small group (e.g. leader, recorder, etc.).
Self-monitor speaking and time within the group.
Make decisions based on the information offered by the group.
Students will pose questions, listen to the ideas of others, and contribute their
own information or ideas in group discussion and interviews in order to acquire
new knowledge.
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Summarize in a coherent and organized way, in written or oral form, what they have learned from a
focused discussion.
Identify similarities and differences expressed in literature.
Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration
of audience, purpose, and the information conveyed.
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Design a rubric to be used for evaluation of oral presentations, making sure that appropriate weight is
given to a speaker's purpose, the information he/she is presenting and the audience to whom he/she is
presenting it.
Identify the elements of a persuasive or informative speech.
Analyze the methods employed by the speaker.
Present a persuasive argument to support a specific point of view or to be able to present an
informative speech.
Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in
reading and writing.
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Understand and use words according to their literal meaning.
Understand and use words according to their figurative meaning.
Identify and use correctly suffixes and prefixes that indicate or change word meanings as follows:
Anglo-Saxon prefixes, Latin prefixes, Latin roots, and Greek roots.
Students will analyze standard English grammar and usage and recognize how its
vocabulary has developed and been influenced by other languages.
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Identify simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Identify and use correctly independent and subordinate clauses.
Identify noun, adjective, and adverb clauses.
Recognize the function of verbals: Participles, gerunds, and infinitives.
Identify and analyze sentence structure: parallel structure and properly placed modifiers.
Identify correct usage (tense consistency) and mechanics (semicolons, colons, and hyphens).
Describe the origins and meanings of common words and foreign words or phrases frequently used in
English.
Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal English.
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Identify and understand the difference between the appropriate use of formal and informal American
English.
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Strand 2:
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READING AND LITERATURE (LT)
Students will understand the nature of written English and the relationship of
letters and spelling patterns to the sounds of speech.
Standard 7 in beginning reading is not addressed explicitly for grades 9-12.
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Students will identify the basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the
basis for interpretation.
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For imaginative/literary texts:
Identify and analyze patterns of imagery or symbolism.
Identify and interpret themes and give supporting evidence from a text.
For informational/expository texts:
Analyze the logic and use of evidence in an author’s argument.
Students will deepen their understanding of a literary or non-literary work by
relating it to its contemporary context or historical background.
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Relate a literary work to primary source documents of its literary period or historical setting.
Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of the characteristics of
different genres.
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Compare and contrast the presentation of a similar theme or topic across genres.
Identify the theme and discuss how the genre shapes that theme.
Identify the defining characteristics of each genre.
Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of theme in a literary work and
provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
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Apply knowledge of the concept that the theme or meaning of a selection may involve several ideas.
Make a connection between the themes of literature and their own lives.
Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of the structure, and elements
of fiction and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
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Locate and analyze such elements in fiction as point of view.
Identify examples of foreshadowing and flashback.
Analyze the development of situational and dramatic irony.
Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of the purpose, structure, and
elements of non-fiction or informational materials and provide evidence from the
text to support their understanding.
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Analyze the logic and use of evidence in an author’s argument.
Analyze and explain the structure and elements of nonfiction works.
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Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of theme, structure, and
elements of poetry and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
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Identify, respond to, and analyze the effects of sound, form, figurative language, graphics, and dramatic
structure of poems:
Sound (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme, consonance, assonance)
Form (ballad, sonnet, heroic couplets)
Figurative language (personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, symbolism)
Dramatic structure
Students will identify and analyze how an author's words appeal to
the senses, create imagery, suggest mood and set tone and provide evidence from
the text to support their understanding.
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Analyze and compare figurative language and imagery across significant cross-cultural literacy work.
Evaluate how an author’s choice of words advances the theme or purpose of a work.
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and
elements of myths, traditional narratives, and classical literature and provide
evidence from the text to support their understanding.
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Analyze and compare the role of such elements as journeys, supernatural helpers, magical objects,
tests, and/or marvelous creatures in myth, epics, or literary works that draw upon motifs and themes
from the oral tradition.
Discuss the concept of oral tradition and its influence on literature.
Identify the characteristics and defining purposes of myths.
Identify the characteristics and defining purpose of folk tales.
Identify the characteristics and defining purpose of legends.
Identify the characteristics and defining purpose of epics.
Identify and discuss modern adaptations of mythological elements in today's culture.
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and
elements of drama and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
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Identify and analyze how elements and conventions of drama support, interpret, and enhance dramatic
text.
Students will plan and present dramatic readings, recitations, and
performances that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience and
purpose.
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Develop, communicate, and sustain consistent characters in improvisational, formal and informal
productions.
Discuss and explain the assumed character's behavior.
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Strand 3: COMPOSITION (C)
Students will write well-organized compositions with a beginning, middle and end,
drawing on a variety of strategies as needed to generate and organize ideas.
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Students will write with a clear focus, coherent organization, and sufficient detail.
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For informational/expository writing:
• Write a thesis statement that establishes a clear focus and purpose.
• Develop the thesis statement through supporting detail and textual evidence.
• Write well-organized essays (persuasive, literary, and personal) that have a clear focus, logical
development, effective use of detail, and variety in sentence structure.
• Use a variety or prewriting/process writing techniques to support the development of their work .
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Students will write for different audiences and purposes.
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Write using different levels of formality, style and tone when composing for different audiences.
Students will demonstrate improvement in organization, content, paragraph
development, level of detail, style, tone and word choice (diction) in their
compositions after revising them.
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Revise their writing for sequential, logical presentation of ideas.
Revise their writing for adequate supportive detail.
Revise their writing for coherent paragraph development and ideas.
Students will use knowledge of standard English conventions in their writing,
revising, and editing
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Use all conventions of standard English to edit their writing.
Use their knowledge of the relationship between main and subordinate clauses, verbals, compound,
complex, simple and compound/complex sentences to enhance the texture of their writing.
Employ their knowledge of tense and voice consistency to edit their writing.
Students will organize ideas in writing in a way that makes sense for their purpose.
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Use their own questions, notes, summaries, and outlines as the basis for their essays.
Transfer writing skills across disciplines.
Organize ideas for a critical essay about literature with a thesis in the introduction, well-constructed
paragraphs to build an argument, transition sentences to link paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Students will gather information from a variety of sources, analyze and evaluate he
quality of the information they obtain, and use it to answer their own questions.
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Formulate their own open-ended questions to explore a topic of interest.
Formulate research thesis statements.
Gather information from various sources.
Use the MLA format for documentation.
Students will develop and use appropriate rhetorical, logical, and stylistic criteria
for assessing final versions of their compositions or research projects before
presenting them to varied audiences.
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Engage in group-centered work in generating evaluative criteria for assessing final versions of their
work.
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Strand 4:
MEDIA (M)
The mastery of all media standards is contingent upon the availability of sufficient
technology to accomplish these ends.
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Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the conventions, elements,
and techniques of film, radio, video, television, multimedia productions, the
Internet, and emerging technologies and provide evidence from the works to
support their understanding.
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Obtain information by using a variety of media including the Internet.
Evaluate the quality and possible bias in the material they obtain.
Students will design and create coherent media productions (audio, video,
television, Internet, multimedia, emerging technologies) with a clear controlling
idea, adequate detail, and appropriate consideration of audience and purpose.
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Compare and analyze how each medium offers a different perspective on the information it presents.
Examine the way in which the aesthetic and rhetorical purpose behind a media presentation modifies
the message sent.
Use media to expand their understanding of textual material.
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