Content Standard: B. Literature and Culture
Students will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Demonstrate an understanding that people respond to literature in different and individual ways.	Listen with respect. Demonstrate validation			.	.	.
2. Identify specific interests and questions and pursue them by identifying pertinent literature and media.	Formulate, research, and answer questions.			.	.	.
3. Identify the main and subordinate characters in literary works.	Students will identify: main characters good and bad characters			.	.	.
4. Explain how the motives of characters or the causes of complex events in texts are similar to and distinct from those in their own experience.	Students will be able to: compare and contrast write a descriptive essay understand cause and effect			.	.	compare contrast descriptive motive
5. Demonstrate an understanding of lengthy, complex dialogues and how they relate to a story.	.			.	.	.
6. Recognize the use of specific literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashback, different time frames such as the future or the past)	Students will identify: foreshadowing flashback various time frames			.	.	foreshadowing flashback
7. Recognize complex elements of plot (e.g., setting, major events, problems, conflicts, resolutions).	Students will identify: setting major events problem and solution			.	.	major events setting solution
8. Apply effective strategies to the reading and interpretation of fiction (e.g., science fiction, myths, mysteries, realistic and historical fiction, poems, adventure stories, and humorous tales), using texts that are appropriately complex in terms of character, plot, theme, structure, and dialogue and appropriately sophisticated in style, point of view, and use of literary devices.	Students will understand genre understand vocabulary make predictions context clues rereading			.	.	predictions context clues rereading genre
9.  Apply effective strategies to the reading and use of moderately long nonfiction texts (e.g., reference sources, articles, editorials, histories, biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters, and commentaries) which have an appropriate complexity of content and sophistication of style.	Students will use reference sources for help with unknown texts use context clues with unfamiliar texts use rereading strategies use time management in reading nonfiction texts			.	.	time management context clues reference sources
11. Read literature and view films which illustrate distinct cultures in various types of works and formulate and defend opinions gathered from the experience.	Students will understand differences in culture and backgrounds formulate and express opinions about the culture studies			.	.	.
12. Identify the universality of themes and examine the connections among various expressive forms (e.g., films, fiction, drama) by drawing on their broad base of prior knowledge.	Students will learn major themes of literary works connect the themes of literature to personal experience			.	.	good vs. evil
13. Demonstrate understanding of enduring themes of literature by differentiating between main ideas and themes after they study story elements.	Students will study story elements find main ideas of the text identify the theme of the text identify the difference between main ideas and the themes			.	.	conflict resolution main idea setting plot climax character