9th -10th Grade English Language Arts
Common Core Georgia Performance
Standards
ELACC9-10W2: 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
Blooms: Create
Students will write an analysis of Dr. Martin Luther King speech, "I Have a Dream" and
identify the authors manipulation of language citing in-text citations with 85% accuracy.
Blooms: Analyze
Blooms: Understand
Students will review the effects of the March on Washington in the Civil Rights Movement and highlight its significance
in a news broadcast with 85% accuracy.
Assessment: Students will be assessed on historical, accuracy, creativity, originality, interpretation, and
organization.
ELACC9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Blooms: Analyze
Blooms: Evaluate
Students will use the text, "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie to describe elements in the text that reveal the significance of the main characters in the work.
ELACC9-10RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations)
develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the
theme.
Blooms: Apply
Students will be able to use key target vocabulary when speaking and writing about different heroes.