Positive and negative characteristics of social groups, gangs, clubs, cliques. Development of self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-control. Understand appropriate ways to express emotions.
Cultural contexts and expressions of art. Style, materials, and techniques used in a work of art. Generating questions about a work of art. Considering messages and purposes of a particular work of art. Responding orally, in writing, or some other way to works of art.
Analyze how a text makes connections among individuals, events, or ideas. Analyze how a complex primary source is structured. Determine meanings and effects of words, phrases, or symbols as used in a text. Evaluate the effectiveness of the structure of a work in furthering the key ideas or argument.
Analyze how the structure of parts of a text contribute to the overall meaning Analyze a work that uses satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement. Determine author’s purpose or point of view and how rhetoric is used to advance that purpose or point of view. Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem.
Cultural contexts and expressions of art. Style, materials, and techniques used in a work of art. Generating questions about a work of art. Considering messages and purposes of a particular work of art. Responding orally, in writing, or some other way to works of art.