Reading Literature

Outcomes

Key Ideas and Details
- 9-10.RL.2
  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.
  
  Play Activities 6
  
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Craft and Structure
- 9-10.RL.4
  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 (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
  
  Play Activities 11
  
  Examples
- 9-10.RL.5
  Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
  
  Play Activities 1
  
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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- 9-10.RL.10
  By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
  
  Play Activities 19
  
  Examples