Benchmark ELA.1.HS.1
Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, learning complex
procedures, completing technical tasks, making workplace decisions, evaluating
and analyzing information, and pursuing in-depth studies.
Benchmark ELA.1.HS.2
Read with developing fluency a variety of texts, such as novels,
poetry, drama, essays, research texts, technical manuals, and documents.
Benchmark ELA.1.HS.3
Selectively employ the most effective strategies to construct meaning,
such as generating questions, scanning, analyzing, and evaluating for specific
information related to a research question, and deciding how to represent
content through summarizing, clustering, and mapping.
Benchmark ELA.1.HS.4
Selectively employ the most effective strategies to recognize words
as they construct meaning, including the use of context clues, etymological
study, and reference materials.
Benchmark ELA.1.HS.5
Respond personally, analytically, and critically to a variety of
oral, visual, written, and electronic texts, providing examples of how
texts influence their lives and their role in society.
Benchmark ELA.2.HS.1
Write fluently for multiple purposes to produce compositions, such
as stories, poetry, personal narratives, editorials, research reports,
persuasive essays, resumes, and memos.
Benchmark ELA.2.HS.2
Recognize and approximate authors' innovative techniques to convey
meaning and influence an audience when composing their own texts. Examples
include experimentation with time, stream of consciousness, multiple perspectives,
and use of complex grammatical conventions.
Benchmark ELA.2.HS.3
Plan, draft, revise, and edit their texts, and analyze and critique
the texts of others in such areas as purpose, effectiveness, cohesion,
and creativity.
Benchmark ELA.2.HS.4
Demonstrate precision in selecting appropriate language conventions
when editing text. Examples include complex grammatical constructions,
sentence structures, punctuation, and spelling.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.1
Integrate listening, viewing, speaking, reading, and writing skills
for multiple purposes and in varied contexts. An example is using all the
language arts to complete and present a multi-media project on a national
or international issue.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.2
Consistently use strategies to regulate the effects of variables
on the communication process. An example is designing a communication environment
for maximum impact on the receiver.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.3
Read and write fluently, speak confidently, listen and interact
appropriately, view critically, and represent creatively. Examples include
speaking publicly, demonstrating teamwork skills, debating formally, performing
literature, and interviewing for employment.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.4
Consistently use effective listening strategies (e.g., discriminating,
assigning meaning, evaluating, and remembering) and elements of effective
speaking (e.g., message content, language choices, and audience analysis).
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.5
Employ the most effective strategies to construct meaning while
reading, listening to, viewing, or creating texts. Examples include generating
focus questions; deciding how to represent content through analyzing, clustering,
and mapping; and withholding personal bias while listening.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.6
Determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and concepts in
oral, visual, and written texts by using a variety of resources, such as
context, research, reference materials, and electronic sources.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.7
Recognize and use varied innovative techniques to construct text,
convey meaning, and express feelings to influence an audience. Examples
include experimentation with time, order, stream of consciousness, and
multiple points of view.
Benchmark ELA.3.HS.8
Analyze their responses to oral, visual, written, and electronic
texts, providing examples of how texts affect their lives, connect them
with the contemporary world, and transmit issues across time.
Language
Standard ELA.4
All students will use the English language effectively.
Benchmark ELA.4.HS.1
Demonstrate how language usage is related to successful communication
in their different spoken, written, and visual communication contexts,
such as job interviews, public speeches, debates, and advertising.
Benchmark ELA.4.HS.2
Use an understanding of how language patterns and vocabularies transmit
culture and affect meaning in formal and informal situations. An example
is identifying distinctions in the verbal and non-verbal communication
behaviors of national or world leaders.
Benchmark ELA.4.HS.3
Explore and explain how the same words can have different usages
and meanings in different contexts, cultures, and communities.
Benchmark ELA.4.HS.4
Demonstrate ways in which communication can be influenced through
word usage. Examples include propaganda, irony, parody, and satire.
Benchmark ELA.4.HS.5
Recognize and use levels of discourse appropriate for varied contexts,
purposes, and audiences, including terminology specific to particular fields.
Examples include community building, presentations integrating different
disciplines, lessons comparing fields of study, promotional material created
for an interdisciplinary project, and videos designed to inform or entertain
diverse audiences.
Benchmark ELA.5.HS.1
Select, read, listen to, view, and respond thoughtfully to both
classic and contemporary texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
Benchmark ELA.5.HS.2
Describe and discuss archetypal human experiences that appear in
literature and other texts from around the world.
Benchmark ELA.5.HS.3
Analyze how the tensions among characters, communities, themes,
and issues in literature and other texts reflect the substance of the human
experience.
Benchmark ELA.5.HS.4
Analyze how cultures interact with one another in literature and
other texts, and describe the consequences of the interaction as it relates
to our common heritage.
Benchmark ELA.5.HS.5
Analyze and evaluate the authenticity of the portrayal of various
societies and cultures in literature and other texts. An example is critiquing
print and non-print accounts of historical and contemporary social issues.
Benchmark ELA.6.HS.1
Assess their use of elements of effective communication in personal,
social, occupational, and civic contexts. Examples include use of pacing,
repetition, and emotion.
Benchmark ELA.6.HS.2
Evaluate the power of using multiple voices in their oral and written
communication to persuade, inform, entertain, and inspire their audiences.
Benchmark ELA.6.HS.3
Analyze the style and characteristics of authors, actors, and artists
of classics and masterpieces to determine why these voices endure.
Benchmark ELA.6.HS.4
Document and enhance a developing voice with authentic writings
for different audiences and purposes. Examples include portfolios, video
productions, submissions for competitions or publications, individual introspections,
and applications for employment and higher education.
Benchmark ELA.7.HS.1
Use a combination of strategies when encountering unfamiliar texts
while constructing meaning. Examples include generating questions; scanning
for specific information related to research questions; analyzing tone
and voice; and representing content through summarizing, clustering, and
mapping.
Benchmark ELA.7.HS.2
Monitor their progress while using a variety of strategies to overcome
difficulties when constructing and conveying meaning, and demonstrate flexible
use of strategies across a wide range of situations.
Benchmark ELA.7.HS.3
Reflect on their understanding of literacy, assess their developing
ability, set personal learning goals, create strategies for attaining those
goals, and take responsibility for their literacy development.
Benchmark ELA.7.HS.4
Demonstrate flexibility in using strategies for planning, drafting,
revising, and editing complex texts in a variety of genre, and describe
the relationship between form and meaning. Examples include preparing text
for publication and presentation and using strategies appropriate for purposes,
such as editorializing an opinion, and developing and justifying a personal
perspective on a controversial issue.
Benchmark ELA.8.HS.1
Identify and use selectively mechanics that facilitate understanding.
Examples include organizational patterns, documentation of sources, appropriate
punctuation, grammatical constructions, conventional spelling, and the
use of connective devices, such as transitions and paraphrasing an oral
message completely and accurately.
Benchmark ELA.8.HS.2
Describe and use characteristics of various narrative genre and
complex elements of narrative technique to convey ideas and perspectives.
Examples include use of symbol, motifs, and function of minor characters
in epics, satire, and drama.
Benchmark ELA.8.HS.3
Describe and use characteristics of informational genre (e.g., manuals,
briefings, documentaries, and research presentations) and complex elements
of expository texts (e.g., thesis statement, supporting ideas, and authoritative
and/or statistical evidence) to convey ideas.
Benchmark ELA.8.HS.4
Identify and use aspects of the craft of the speaker, writer, and
illustrator to formulate and express their ideas artistically. Examples
include imagery, irony, multiple points of view, complex dialogue, aesthetics,
and persuasive techniques.
Benchmark ELA.8.HS.5
Describe and use the characteristics of various oral, visual, and
written texts (e.g., debate, drama, primary documents, and documentaries)
and the textual aids they employ (e.g., prefaces, appendices, lighting
effects, and microfiche headings) to convey meaning and inspire audiences.
Benchmark ELA.9.HS.1
Analyze and reflect on universal themes and substantive issues from
oral, visual, and written texts. Examples include human interaction with
the environment, conflict and change, relationships with others, and self-discovery.
Benchmark ELA.9.HS.2
Synthesize from multiple texts representing varied perspectives,
and apply the principles and generalizations needed to investigate and
confront complex issues and problems.
Benchmark ELA.9.HS.3
Develop and extend a thesis by analyzing differing perspectives
and resolving inconsistencies in logic in order to support a position.
Benchmark ELA.10.HS.1
Use themes and central ideas in literature and other texts to generate
solutions to problems and formulate perspectives on issues in their own
lives.
Benchmark ELA.10.HS.2
Function as literate individuals in varied contexts within their
lives in and beyond the classroom. Examples include using text resources
while thinking creatively, making decisions, solving problems, and reasoning
in complex situations.
Benchmark ELA.10.HS.3
Utilize the persuasive power of text as an instrument of change
in their community, their nation, and the world. Examples include identifying
a community issue and designing an authentic project using oral, written,
and visual texts to promote social action.
Benchmark ELA.11.HS.1
Generate questions about important issues that affect them or society,
or topics about which they are curious; narrow the questions to a clear
focus; and create a thesis or a hypothesis.
Benchmark ELA.11.HS.2
Determine, evaluate, and use resources that are most appropriate
and readily available for investigating a particular question or topic.
Examples include knowledgeable people, field trips, prefaces, appendices,
icons/headings, hypertext, menus and addresses, Internet and electronic
mail, CD-ROM/laser disks, microfiche, and library and interlibrary catalogue
databases.
Benchmark ELA.11.HS.3
Synthesize and evaluate information to draw conclusions and implications
based on their investigation of an issue or problem.
Benchmark ELA.11.HS.4
Research and select the medium and format to be used to present
conclusions based on the investigation of an issue or problem. Examples
include satire, parody, multimedia presentations, plays, and mock trials.
Benchmark ELA.12.HS.1
Apply sets of standards for individual use according to the purpose
of the communication context. An example is comparing and contrasting standards
in the evaluation of a popular movie, television program, article, or presentation
on the same topic.
Benchmark ELA.12.HS.2
Analyze and apply individual, shared, and academic standards in
various contexts.
Benchmark ELA.12.HS.3
Use literary history, tradition, theory, terminology, and other
critical standards to develop and justify judgments about the craft and
significance of oral, visual, and written texts.
Benchmark ELA.12.HS.4
Create a collection of personal work based on individual, shared,
and academic standards, justifying judgments about the craft and significance
of each selection.
Benchmark ELA.12.HS.5
Apply diverse standards (e.g. rhetorical and societal) to evaluate
whether a communication is truthful, responsible, and ethical for a specific
context.