Massachusetts State Standards
Standard 1: Discussion
Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal and formal discussions in
small and large groups.
Standard 2: Questioning, Listening, and Contributing
Students will pose questions, listen to the ideas of others, and contribute
their own information or ideas in group discussions or interviews in order
to acquire new knowledge.
Standard 3: Oral Presentation
Students will make oral presentations that
demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the
information to be conveyed.
Standard 4: Vocabulary and Concept Development
Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in
reading and writing.
Standard 5: Structure and Origins of Modern English
Students will analyze standard English grammar and usage and recognize how
its vocabulary has developed and been influenced by other languages.
Standard 6: Formal and Informal English
Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal
English.
Reading and Literature Strand
Standard 8: Understanding a Text
Students will identify the basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them
as the basis for interpretation.
Standard 9: Making Connections
Students will deepen their understanding of a literary or non-literary work
by relating it to its contemporary context or historical background.
Standard 10: Genre
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the characteristics
of different genres.
Standard 11: Theme
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of theme in a literary
work and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Standard 13: Nonfiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purposes,
structure, and elements of nonfiction or informational materials and provide
evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Standard 15: Style and Language
Students will identify and analyze how an author�s words appeal to the
senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone, and provide evidence
from the text to support their understanding.
Standard 17: Dramatic Literature
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes,
structure, and elements of drama and provide evidence from the text to
support their understanding.
Standard 18: Dramatic Reading and Performance
Students will plan and present dramatic readings, recitations, and
performances that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience and
purpose.
Composition Strand
Standard 19: Writing
Students will write with a clear focus, coherent organization, and
sufficient detail.
Standard 20: Consideration of Audience and Purpose
Students will write for different audiences and purposes.
Standard 21: Revising
Students will demonstrate improvement in organization, content, paragraph
development, level of detail, style, tone, and word choice (diction) in
their compositions after revising them.
Standard 22: Standard English Conventions
Students will use knowledge of standard English conventions in their
writing, revising, and editing.
Standard 23: Organizing Ideas in Writing
Students will organize ideas in writing in a way that makes sense for their
purpose.
Standard 24: Research
Students will gather information from a variety of sources, analyze and
evaluate the quality of the information they obtain, and use it to answer
their own questions.
Standard 25: Evaluating Writing and Presentations
Students will develop and use appropriate rhetorical, logical, and stylistic
criteria for assessing final versions of their compositions or research
projects before presenting them to varied audiences.
Media Strand
Standard 27: Media Production
Students will design and create coherent media productions (audio, video,
television, multimedia, Internet, emerging technologies) with a clear
controlling idea, adequate detail, and appropriate consideration of
audience, purpose, and medium.
Social Studies Frameworks
4.10 Identify the states, state capitals, and major cities in each region.
(G)
4.11 Describe the climate, major physical features, and major natural
resources in each region. (G)
