What does a student learn in StateNorth Carolina,GradeGrade 9,SubjectEnglish Language Arts?

Narrate.Interpretive: Interpret language arts narratives (with prompting and support) by:

Identifying themes or central ideas that develop over the course of a text

Analyzing how author choices about character attributes and actions relate to story elements (setting, event sequences, and context)

Evaluating the impact of specific word choices on meaning, tone, and explicit vs. implicit points of view

Narrate.Expressive: Construct language arts narratives (with prompting and support) that:

Orient audience to context and one or multiple point(s) of view

Develop and describe characters and their relationships over a progression of experiences or events

Develop story, advancing the plot and themes with complications and resolutions, time and event sequences

Engage and adjust for audience

Inform.Interpretive: Interpret informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) by:

Identifying and/or summarizing central ideas

Analyzing descriptions and inferences in textual evidence for key attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationships

Evaluating cumulative impact and refinement of author’s key word choices over the course of text

Inform.Expressive: Construct informational texts in language arts (with prompting and support) that:

Introduce and define topic and/or entity for audience

Establish an objective or neutral stance

Add precision, details, and clarity about complex attributes, qualities, characteristics, activities, and conceptual relationships

Develop coherence and cohesion throughout text

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret language arts arguments by:

Identifying and summarizing central ideas of primary or secondary sources

Analyzing use of rhetoric and details to advance point of view or purpose

Evaluating and corroborating relevance and sufficiency of evidence as well as validity of reasoning to support claims

Argue.Expressive: Construct language arts arguments that:

Introduce and develop precise claims and address counterclaims

Support claims and refute counterclaims with valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence

Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone

Logically organize claims, counterclaims, reasons, and evidence; offer a conclusion with recommendations

Explain.Interpretive: Interpret mathematical explanations by:

Identifying concept or entity

Analyzing data and owning problem-solving approaches

Evaluating rationales, models, and/or interpretations based on evidence and mathematical principles

Explain.Expressive: Construct mathematical explanations that:

Introduce mathematical concept or entity

Share solutions with others

Describe data and/or approach used to solve a problem

State reasoning used to generate own or alternate solutions

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret mathematics arguments by:

Comparing conjectures with previously established results and stated assumptions

Distinguishing correct from flawed logic

Evaluating relationships among evidence and mathematical principles to create generalizations

Argue.Expressive: Construct mathematics arguments that:

Create precise conjecture, using definitions, previously established results, and stated assumptions

Generalize logical relationships across cases

Justify (and refute) conclusions with evidence and mathematical principles

Evaluate and extend others’ arguments

Explain.Interpretive: Interpret scientific explanations by:

Defining investigable questions or problems based on observations, information, and/or data about a phenomenon

Paraphrasing central ideas in complex evidence, concepts, processes, and information to help explain how or why a phenomenon occurs

Evaluating the extent to which reasoning, theory and/or models link evidence to claims and support conclusions

Explain.Expressive: Construct scientific explanations that:

Summarize and refine solutions referencing scientific knowledge, evidence, criteria, and/or trade-offs

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret scientific arguments by:

Identifying appropriate and sufficient evidence from data, models, and/or information from investigations of a phenomenon or design solutions

Comparing reasoning and claims based on evidence from competing arguments or design solutions

Evaluating currently accepted explanations, new evidence, limitations (trade-offs), constraints, and ethical issues

Argue.Expressive Construct scientific arguments that:

Introduce and contextualize topic/phenomenon in current scientific or historical episodes in science

Defend or refute a claim based on data and evidence

Establish and maintain an appropriate tone and stance (neutral/objective or biased/subjective)

Signal logical relationships among reasoning, evidence, data, and/or models when making and defending a claim, counterclaim, and/or rebuttal

Explain.Interpretive Interpret social studies explanations by:

Determining multiple types of sources, points of view in sources, and potential uses of sources for answering compelling and supporting questions about phenomena or events

Analyzing sources for logical relationships among contributing factors, causes, or related concepts

Evaluating experts’ points of agreement and disagreement based on their consistency with explanation given its purpose

Explain.Expressive: Construct social studies explanations that:

Introduce and contextualize multiple phenomena or events

Establish perspective for communicating intended and unintended outcomes, consequences, or documentation

Develop sound reasoning, sequences with linear and nonlinear relationships, evidence, and details with significant and pertinent information, acknowledging strengths and weaknesses

Generalize experts’ points of agreement and disagreement about multiple, complex causes and effects of developments or events

Argue.Interpretive: Interpret social studies arguments by:

Identifying topic and purpose (argue in favor of or against a position, present a balanced interpretation, challenge perspective)

Analyzing relevant information to support and/or revise claims with reliable and valid evidence from multiple sources

Evaluating credibility, accuracy, and relevancy of source based on expert perspectives

Argue.Expressive: Construct social studies arguments that:

Introduce and contextualize topic

Select relevant information to support precise and knowledgeable claims with evidence from multiple sources

Establish perspective

Show relationships between claims and counterclaims, differences in perspectives, evidence, and reasoning