Grade 9 » Reading for All Purposes


Analyze traditional and contemporary literary texts with scrutiny and comparison of literary elements.

RW.9-10.2.1.a.i

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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RW.9-10.2.1.a.ii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail 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.
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RW.9-10.2.1.a.iii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Analyze how complex characters (for example: 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.
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RW.9-10.2.1.b.i

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (for example: how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
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RW.9-10.2.1.b.ii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (for example: parallel plots), and manipulate time (for example: pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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Understand the logical progression of ideas in increasingly complex texts.

RW.9-10.2.2.a.i

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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RW.9-10.2.2.a.ii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Determine a 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.
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RW.9-10.2.2.a.iii

Description: Use Key Ideas and Details to:
Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
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RW.9-10.2.2.b.i

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (for example: how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
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RW.9-10.2.2.b.ii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (for example: a section or chapter).
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RW.9-10.2.2.b.iii

Description: Use Craft and Structure to:
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.
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Utilize context, parts of speech, grammar, and word choice to understand narrative, argumentative, and informational texts.

RW.9-10.2.3.a.i

Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (for example: the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
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