Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.

Standard: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Cluster: Craft and Structure.

Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Standard: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses).

Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Standard: Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.

Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.

Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Standard: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Standard: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Craft and Structure.

Indicator: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Indicator: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses).

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Indicator: Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln�۪s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

Learning Domain: Writing

Standard: Text Types and Purposes.

Indicator: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening

Standard: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Indicator: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11���12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others�۪ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening

Standard: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Indicator: Evaluate a speaker�۪s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Conventions of Standard English.

Indicator: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Key Ideas and Details.

Indicator: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Craft and Structure.

Indicator: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Indicator: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses).

Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text

Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.

Indicator: Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.

Learning Domain: Writing

Standard: Text Types and Purposes.

Indicator: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.

Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening

Standard: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Indicator: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11–12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening

Standard: Comprehension and Collaboration.

Indicator: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Learning Domain: Language

Standard: Conventions of Standard English.

Indicator: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.