IXL skill plan | English II plan for the North Carolina State Tests

Skill plan for the North Carolina State Tests - English II

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Reading for Literature
Reading for Informational Text
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Reading for Literature
Key Ideas and Evidence		Analyze texts 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 Theme 3. Match the quotations with their themes 4. Determine the themes of short stories
Key Ideas and Evidence
Analyze texts 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 1 Theme 3. Match the quotations with their themes 4. Determine the themes of short stories

Craft and Structure		Vocabulary in context 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 Tone 3. Compare passages for tone Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Compare texts 5. Compare two texts with different genres
Craft and Structure
Vocabulary in context 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 2. Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart: Part 2 Tone 3. Compare passages for tone Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Compare texts 5. Compare two texts with different genres

Reading for Informational Text
Key Ideas and Evidence		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Main idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Text evidence 4. Identify supporting evidence in a text
Key Ideas and Evidence
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 1 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Main idea 3. Determine the main idea of a passage Text evidence 4. Identify supporting evidence in a text

Craft and Structure		Vocabulary in context 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Text development 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Argument development 3. Trace an argument: set 1 Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Purpose 5. Read workplace emails and memos 6. Identify audience and purpose Tone 7. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Persuasive strategies 8. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Craft and Structure
Vocabulary in context 1. Analyze passages from Into Thin Air: Part 2 Text development 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Argument development 3. Trace an argument: set 1 Rhetorical strategies 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Purpose 5. Read workplace emails and memos 6. Identify audience and purpose Tone 7. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone Persuasive strategies 8. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements

Integration of Ideas and Analysis		Trace and evaluate arguments 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Supporting evidence 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Logical fallacies 3. Classify logical fallacies
Integration of Ideas and Analysis
Trace and evaluate arguments 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Supporting evidence 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Logical fallacies 3. Classify logical fallacies

Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use		Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Figurative language 4. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 5. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 6. Interpret figures of speech Homophones 7. Identify and correct errors with homophones Frequently confused words 8. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words Greek and Latin roots 9. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Word patterns 10. Word pattern sentences Foreign words and expressions 11. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 12. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Analogies 13. Analogies: challenge Reference materials 14. Use dictionary definitions
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Vocabulary in context 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Figurative language 4. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 5. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone 6. Interpret figures of speech Homophones 7. Identify and correct errors with homophones Frequently confused words 8. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words Greek and Latin roots 9. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Word patterns 10. Word pattern sentences Foreign words and expressions 11. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 12. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions Analogies 13. Analogies: challenge Reference materials 14. Use dictionary definitions

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