Standards

Creative Writing aligns the with following Common Core State Standards: //**Reading**// //Key Ideas and Details// 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. //Craft and Structure// 5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole. 6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. //Integration of Knowledge and Ideas// 9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. //Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity// 10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. //**Writing**// //Text Types and Purposes*// 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. //Production and Distribution of Writing// 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. //Research to Build and Present Knowledge// 7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. 9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. //Range of Writing// 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. //Comprehension and Collaboration// 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. //Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas// 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. //**Language**// //Conventions of Standard English// 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. //Knowledge of Language// 3. Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. //Vocabulary Acquisition and Use// 5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. 6. Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression
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