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 * Indicates a word the teacher uses to help students start to understand
1. Demonstrate an understanding that people respond to literature in different and individual ways.	Students will listen with respect demonstrate validation			.	Teacher observation. Response paragraph	validation
2. Identify specific interests and questions and pursue them by identifying pertinent literature and media.	Students will formulate, research, and answer question.			.	.	.
3. Identify the main and subordinate characters in literary works.	Students will identify main character protagonist antagonist subordinate characters round and flat characters			.	.	protagonist antagonist
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 compare and contrast literary characters to themselves. demonstrate an understanding of cause and effect			.	.	motive compare contrast
5. Demonstrate an understanding of lengthy, complex dialogues and how they relate to a story.	Students will paraphrase dialogue make predictions based on dialogue recognize dialect and its importance to the characterization of the story			.	.	dialect
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 time frame			.	.	flashback foreshadowing
7. Recognize complex elements of plot (e.g., setting, major events, problems, conflicts, resolutions).	Students will be able to identify exposition setting, time and place major events problems conflicts: character vs. character; character vs. nature; character vs. himself resolution			.	.	exposition setting resolution pacing rising action climax falling action
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 elements of genre understand vocabulary make predictions use context clues reread			.	.	.
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 demonstrate understanding of organization of informational texts Students will use graphic organizers to guide reading. Students will scan for specific information.			.	.	.
10. Demonstrate an understanding of the defining features and structure of literary texts encountered at this level.	.			.	.	.
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 be able to compare and contrast use evidence from story to defend viewpoint			.	.	.
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 the major themes used in literary works. Students will connect the themes of literature to personal experience.			.	.	good vs. evil, etc.
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. Students will find main idea of text. Students will identify the theme of the text. Students will understand how main idea leads to theme.			.	.	conflict crisis resolution main idea rising action falling action exposition character (main, minor) protagonist antagonist theme, etc.