La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XI-9351

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XI-9351 - Reading Literature

A. Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions, or summaries of the plot, purpose, or theme within a text.

B. Determine which piece(s) of evidence provide the strongest support for inferences, conclusions, or summaries of text.

C. Determine the theme or central idea of an adapted grade appropriate text.

D. Determine how the theme develops.

E. Determine how key details support the development of the theme of an adapted grade-level text.

F. Identify character with multiple or conflicting motivations (i.e., a complex character).

G. Delineate how a complex character develops over the course of a text, interacts with other characters, and advances the plot or develops the theme.

H. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative (e.g., metaphors, similes, and idioms) and connotative meanings.

I. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

J. Compare and contrast works from different cultures with a common theme.

K. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is absent in each treatment.

L. Analyze how an author draws on source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

M. Read or be read to a variety of literary texts or adapted texts including historical novels, classical dramas or plays, poetry, novels written by international authors, and fiction.

N. Read challenging grade-level literary texts.

O. Use strategies to derive meaning from a variety of print and non-print literary texts.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XI-9351

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 43910 (5/1/2017).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24.4.