Pennsylvania Academic Standards
The Pittsburgh Public School District uses the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. The standards specifically earmarked for this unit are:
1.1 D Identify, describe, evaluate and synthesize the essential ideas in text. Assess those reading strategies that were most effective in learning from a variety of texts.
1.2 B Produce work in at least one literary areas that follows the conventions of the genre.
1.3 C Analyze the effectiveness in terms of literary quality, of the author's use of literary devices.
- Sound techniques (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration).
- Figurative language (e.g., personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, satire.
- Literary structures (e.g., foreshadowing, flashbacks, progressive and digressive time).
1.3 F Read and respond to nonfiction and fiction including poetry and drama.
1.4 A Write short stories, poems, and plays
- Apply varying organizational methods
- Use relevant illustrations
- Utilize dialogue
- Apply literary conflict
- Include varying characteristics (e.g., from limerick to epic. from whimsical to dramatic).
- Include literary elements
- Use literary devices.
1.5 A Write with a sharp, distinct focus.
1.5 B Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic.
1.5 C Write with controlled and/or subtle organization.
1.5 D Write with a command of the stylistic aspects of composition.
1.5 E Revise writing to improve style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how questions of purpose, audience and genre have been addressed.
1.5 F Edit writing using the conventions of language.
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