This assignment involves the breakdown of 3 specific Common Core English Language Arts, grades 9, 10, & 12 learning standards. For each standard, address the following prompts: Write the standar

Tenth Grade ELA Standard:  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

  • Write the standard in student-friendly terms.

  • Break the standard down into measurable parts and present those parts in a sensible sequence.

    • Knowledge objectives (what the student should know)

    • Skill objectives (what the students should be able to do)

  • Identify the prerequisite knowledge and skills students need before mastery of the identified standard can be obtained.

Use the answer template below to present your work for each standard.


For the identified standard address each of the following prompts:

Student Friendly Format (How you might display the standard for your students?):
















Appropriate Parts:

Knowledge and Skill Objectives (How you might explain the standard, and its parts, to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective, and to present the objectives in the appropriate teaching sequence if the sequence is of consequence. You must justify your sequence decision.

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Sequence Justification:

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Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills (How you might explain prerequisite objectives to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each prerequisite objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective.

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Ninth Grade ELA Standard: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

  • Write the standard in student-friendly terms.

  • Break the standard down into measurable parts and present those parts in a sensible sequence.

    • Knowledge objectives (what the student should know)

    • Skill objectives (what the students should be able to do)

  • Identify the prerequisite knowledge and skills students need before mastery of the identified standard can be obtained.

Twelfth Grade ELA Standard:  Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

  • Write the standard in student-friendly terms.

  • Break the standard down into measurable parts and present those parts in a sensible sequence.

    • Knowledge objectives (what the student should know)

    • Skill objectives (what the students should be able to do)

  • Identify the prerequisite knowledge and skills students need before mastery of the identified standard can be obtained.


For the identified standard address each of the following prompts:

Student Friendly Format (How you might display the standard for your students?):
















Appropriate Parts:

Knowledge and Skill Objectives (How you might explain the standard, and its parts, to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective, and to present the objectives in the appropriate teaching sequence if the sequence is of consequence. You must justify your sequence decision.

  1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  5. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sequence Justification:

__________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills (How you might explain prerequisite objectives to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each prerequisite objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective.

  1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  5. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  6. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Twelfth Grade ELA Standard:  Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

  • Write the standard in student-friendly terms.

  • Break the standard down into measurable parts and present those parts in a sensible sequence.

    • Knowledge objectives (what the student should know)

    • Skill objectives (what the students should be able to do)

  • Identify the prerequisite knowledge and skills students need before mastery of the identified standard can be obtained.

For the identified standard address each of the following prompts:

Student Friendly Format (How you might display the standard for your students?):
















Appropriate Parts:

Knowledge and Skill Objectives (How you might explain the standard, and its parts, to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective, and to present the objectives in the appropriate teaching sequence if the sequence is of consequence. You must justify your sequence decision.

  1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  5. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sequence Justification:

__________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills (How you might explain prerequisite objectives to a colleague?):

Remember to identify each prerequisite objective as either a knowledge objective or a skill objective.

  1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  5. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  6. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________