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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 9-10

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Key Ideas and Details

[RL.9-10.3] - 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.


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  • Analysis (Analyze)
    In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning.
  • Character
    Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Plot
    Action or sequence of related events in a (usually fiction) narrative. Plot is usually a series of related incidents that builds and grows as the story develops. Plot lines commonly contain five basic elements: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution or denouement. See Conflict.
  • Theme
    Central message or abstract concept made concrete through representation in a literary text. Like a thesis, a theme implies a subject and predicate of some kind: for instance, not just vice as a standalone word, but a proposition such as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. Sometimes a theme is directly stated in a work, and sometimes it is revealed indirectly. A single work may have more than one theme. See Main idea, Moral.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RL.8.3
    Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story, poem, or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Successor Standards:

  • RL.11-12.3
    Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story, poem, or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

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