World Literature II Grade 10
STRAND: ORAL LANGUAGE
(SPEAKING & LISTENING)
At the tenth-grade level, students will become skilled communicators in small-group learning activities.
They will assume and evaluate individual roles in presenting oral reports. They will also examine and
critique the overall effectiveness of the group process. They will use grammatically correct language that is
appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
STANDARD 1
The student will participate in and report on small-group learning activities.
1.1
Assume responsibility for specific group tasks.
1.2
Participate in small-group learning activities by contributing ideas and respectfully
listening to and considering the views of the other group members.
1.3
Participate in the preparation of an outline or summary of the group activity, including the
preparation of their individual roles in the group presentation.
1.4
Participate in group presentations in which all group members are included.
1.5
Analyze the occasion and the interests of the audience and choose effective verbal and
nonverbal techniques (including voice, gestures, and eye contact) for presentations.
1.6
Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of
presentations.
1.7
Use grammatically correct language, including vocabulary appropriate to the topic,
audience, and purpose.
STANDARD 2
The student will critique oral presentations of small-group learning activities.
2.1
Evaluate one’s own role in the preparation and delivery of oral presentations.
2.2
Evaluate the effectiveness of the group process in the preparation and delivery of oral
presentations.
2.3
Critique and offer suggestions for improving their own group’s presentations and their
classmates’ group presentations.
STANDARD 3
The student will analyze and evaluate oral and media communications.
3.1
Make judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with
convincing evidence.
3.2
Compare and contrast the ways in which media genres (including televised news, news
magazines, documentaries, and online information) cover the same event.
3.3
Analyze historically significant speeches (such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Day of
Infamy” speech) to find the rhetorical devices and features that make them memorable
3.4
Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone of the oral communication and
make an impact on the audience.
STRAND: READING ANALYSIS
(READING & VIEWING)
At the tenth-grade level, students will read, comprehend, critique, and analyze a variety of literary works.
They will interpret a variety of informational materials, such as labels, manuals, warranties, directions,
applications, technical descriptions, contracts, and forms to complete specific tasks. They will apply critical
reading skills across the content areas, including history and social science, science, and mathematics.
STANDARD 4
The student will apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning
of new words encountered in reading and use those words accurately.
4.1
Distinguish between what words mean literally and what they imply, and interpret what
words imply.
 Example: Understand descriptive phrases when reading, such as A man’s feet
must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world (George
Santayana) or We must be the change we wish to see in the world (Gandhi).
4.2
Apply knowledge of roots and word parts from Greek and Latin to understand the origin
and meaning of new words.
4.3
Identify and use the literal and figurative meanings of words and understand origins of
words.
STANDARD 5
The student will read, comprehend, and critique literary works.
5.1
Analyze characteristics of subgenres, types of writings such as satire, parody, allegory, and
pastoral that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic
genres.
 Satire: using humor to point out weaknesses of people and society.
 Parody: using humor to imitate or mock a person or situation.
 Allegory: using symbolic figures and actions to express general truths about
human experiences.
 Pastoral: showing life in the country in an idealistic — and not necessarily
realistic — way.
5.2
Identify main and supporting ideas.
5.3
Make predictions, draw inferences, and connect prior knowledge to support reading
comprehension.
5.4
Evaluate interactions between characters in a literary text and explain the way those
interactions affect the plot.
5.5
Analyze characters’ traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration,
dialogue, and soliloquy (when they speak out loud to themselves).
5.6
Evaluate an author’s development of time and sequence, including the use of complex
literary devices, such as foreshadowing (providing clues to future events) or flashbacks
(interrupting the sequence of events to include information about an event that happened in
the past).
5.7
Evaluate the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language,
imagery, allegory (the use of fictional figures and actions to express truths about human
experiences), and symbolism (the use of a symbol to represent an idea or theme), and
explain their appeal.
5.8
Explain similarities and differences of techniques and literary forms represented in the
literature of different cultures and eras.
5.9
Identify universal themes prevalent in the literature of different cultures and provide
evidence to support the views expressed in each work.
5.10
Explain how voice, persona, and the choice of speaker (narrator) affect the mood, tone, and
meaning, and credibility of text.
STANDARD 6
The student will read and interpret a variety of informational materials and
nonfiction materials.
6.1
Analyze the structure and format of various informational documents and explain how
authors use the features to achieve their purposes.
 Example: Analyze an advertisement that has been made to look like the
informational newspaper or magazine text around it. Explain why the
advertisement would be designed this way and evaluate its effectiveness.
6.2
Extend — through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration — ideas presented in
primary or secondary sources.
 Example: Read first-hand accounts and newspaper accounts of an historical
event, such as the sinking of the Titanic, and compare them to more recent texts
about the event.
6.3
Locate specific information in manuals or other informational sources by using strategies
such as skimming, summarizing, and highlighting.
6.4
Make reasonable statements and draw conclusions about a text, supporting them with
accurate examples.
6.5
Evaluate an author’s argument or defense of a claim by examining the relationship between
generalizations and evidence, the comprehensiveness of evidence, and the way in which
the author’s intent affects the structure and tone of the text.
 Example: Evaluate science articles by judging the references, the author’s
presentation of facts and opinions, and the date of publication. Evaluate
different arguments on a legal issue, such as the legal age for getting a driver’s
license.
STANDARD 7
The student will read and critique a variety of poetry.
7.1
Compare and contrast the use of rhyme, rhythm, and sound to convey a message, including
end rhyme, slant rhyme, internal rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, blank verse,
iambic pentameter.
7.2
Compare and contrast the ways in which poets use techniques to evoke emotion in the
reader, including figurative language, tone, word choice, and other figures of speech.
7.3
Interpret and paraphrase the meaning of selected poems.
STANDARD 8
The student will read and critique a variety of dramatic selections.
8.1
Identify and describe the function of dialogue, soliloquies, asides, character foils, and stage
designs in dramatic literature.
8.2
Compare and contrast character development in a play to characterization in other literary
forms.
8.3
Analyze the purposes and the characteristics of different forms of dramatic literature
(including comedy, tragedy, and dramatic monologue).
STRAND: WRITING
At the tenth-grade level, students will develop their expository writing skills by analyzing and critiquing peer and
professional writing. They will learn effective techniques of organization and development by analyzing, revising, and
evaluating various written forms and ideas. They will demonstrate understanding by applying a writing process in
developing written products. They will edit writing for correct use of language, sentence formation, punctuation,
capitalization, and spelling as part of the writing process.
The St. Michael’s School writing program is based on the 6-Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice,
Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions.
STANDARD 9
The student will write in a variety of forms, with an emphasis on exposition.
9.1
Establish a coherent thesis that conveys a clear purpose and maintain a consistent focus
throughout the piece of writing (IDEAS).
9.2
Elaborate main ideas within the body of the composition through carefully selected
supporting evidence, relevant details and examples (IDEAS).
9.3
Establish coherence within and among paragraphs through effective transitions, parallel
structures, and similar writing techniques (ORGANIZATION).
9.4
Use point of view, characterization, style, and related elements for specific narrative and
aesthetic (artistic) purposes (VOICE).
9.5
Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active
rather than the passive voice (WORD CHOICE).
9.6
Use clear, varied sentences (SENTENCE FLUENCY).
9.7
Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning, clarity, content, and conventions.
9.8
Proofread and prepare final product for intended audience and purpose.
9.9
Provide constructive criticism to other writers with suggestions for improving organization,
tone, style, clarity, and focus; edit and revise in response to peer reviews of own work.
STANDARD 10
The student will critique professional and peer writing.
10.1
Identify and apply features of the writing domains, including
 effective organization
 elaborated, clear, and complete ideas
 clear structure
 sentence variety
 unity and coherence
 tone and voice
 effective word choice
 clear purpose
 appropriate mechanics and usage
10.2
Evaluate analytical writing by examining and understanding how individual parts of the
text relate to the whole, including the writing’s purpose and structure.
10.3
Suggest how writing might be improved.
STANDARD 11—CONVENTIONS
The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation,
spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing.
11.1
Use a style manual, such as that of the Modern Language Association (MLA), to apply
rules for punctuation and formatting of direct quotations
11.2
Demonstrate an understanding of sentence construction, including parallel structure,
subordination, and the proper placement of modifiers, and proper English usage, including
the use of consistent verb tenses.
11.3
Distinguish between active and passive voice.
11.4
Use all verb tenses and forms in writing, including the progressive, empathic and modal
forms and the imperatives and subjunctive moods of verbs.
11.5
Apply rules governing use of modifiers to fix dangling modifiers, misplaced modifiers,
double comparisons, and illogical comparisons.
11.6
Identify and correctly use the mechanics of punctuation, particularly the colon and
semicolon.
STRAND: RESEARCH
At the tenth-grade level, students will develop skills in accessing, evaluating, organizing, and presenting
information in the research process. They will also credit sources for quoted and paraphrased information.
Students will present writing in a format appropriate for audience and purpose.
STANDARD 11
The student will collect, evaluate, organize, and present information.
11.1
Identify a topic for research through a variety of strategies, such as mapping, listing,
brainstorming, and webbing.

preview resource materials to aid in selection of a suitable topic
11.2
Develop the central idea or focus.
11.3
Use systematic strategies to organize and record information from a variety of sources.
11.4
Evaluate the accuracy and usefulness of information.
11.5
Credit sources for both quoted and paraphrased ideas.
11.6
Present information in an appropriate format, such as an oral presentation, written report,
or visual product.
11.7
Integrate quotations and citations into a written text while maintaining the flow of ideas.
11.8
Use the conventions for documentation in text, notes, and bibliographies, following the
formats in the MLA (Modern Languages Association) style manual.