Michigan Common Core Standards/Student Products and Learning Targets
Standard |
Product/Outcome |
I Can… |
CCS Reading 1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text |
Summative Assessment Students will use MLA format in writing |
Write an essay based on guiding questions |
CCS Reading 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Describe how an author uses literary elements to engage the reader. |
CCS Reading 3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text |
Formative Assessment: Students will compare decisions, events and ideas across multiple texts. |
Evaluate decisions of characters in literature. |
CCS Reading 4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. |
Formative Assessment: Students will follow decision making and the consequences for those decisions |
Understand consequences of decisions |
CCS Reading 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. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how an author uses literacy elements. |
CCS Reading 7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic events |
CCS Reading 8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS Reading 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. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS Reading 10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. |
Formative Assessment: Students will read various informational and fictional text |
Read independently |
CCS Writing 1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Determine consequences for decisions made |
CCS Writing 2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Convey information about what I have read |
CCS Writing 3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS Writing 4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions |
CCS Writing 5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions |
CCS Writing 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and interact with others about writing. |
Summative Assessment: Student will create a character blog |
Synthesize character words and deeds to write responses in 1st person point of view |
CCS Writing 7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions |
CCS Writing 9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS 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 |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS Speaking and Listening 2 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
View and respond to video presentation |
CCS Speaking and Listening 3 Evaluate a speakers point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Evaluate/analyze how real-life situations are similar to dramatic |
CCS Speaking and Listening 5 Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
View and respond to video presentation |
CCS Language 1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions |
CCS Language 2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions |
CCS 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. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Interpret meaning from unfamiliar dialogue |
CCS Language 4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Interpret meaning from unfamiliar dialogue |
CCS Language 5 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. |
Formative Assessment: Students will produce a Readers Notebook |
Interpret meaning from unfamiliar dialogue |
CCS Language 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. |
Summative Assessment: Student will write an essay in final draft format |
Analyze information to answer guiding questions and dramatic literary terms |