Wintergirls+Unit+Standards+and+Benchmarks


 * Michigan State Standards and Benchmarks that correlate with our unit:**

CE 1.2.3 Write, speak, and create artistic representations to express personal experience and perspective (e.g., personal narrative, poetry, imaginative writing, slam poetry, blogs, webpages).
 * //STANDARD 1.2 Use writing, speaking, and visual expression for personal understanding and growth.//

CE 2.1.1 Use a variety of pre-reading and previewing strategies (e.g., acknowledge own prior knowledge, make connections, generate questions, make predictions, scan a text for a particular purpose or audience, analyze text structure and features) to make conscious choices about how to approach the reading based on purpose, genre, level of difﬁculty, text demands and features.
 * //STANDARD 2.1 Develop critical reading, listening, and viewing strategies://

CE 3.1.2 Demonstrate an understanding of literary characterization, character development, the function of major and minor characters, motives and causes for action, and moral dilemmas that characters encounter by describing their function in speciﬁc works.
 * //STANDARD 3.1 Develop the skills of close and contextual literary reading://

CE 4.2.1 Understand how languages and dialects are used to communicate effectively in different roles, under different circumstances, and among speakers of different speech communities (e.g., ethnic communities, social groups, professional organizations).
 * //STANDARD 4.2 Understand how language variety reﬂects and shapes experience//


 * Research Presentation:**
 * //STANDARD 1.4 Develop and use the tools and practices of inquiry and research—generating, exploring, and reﬁning important questions; creating a hypothesis or thesis; gathering and studying evidence; drawing conclusions; and composing a report://

CE 1.4.1 Identify, explore, and reﬁne topics and questions appropriate for research

CE 1.4.6 Use appropriate conventions of textual citation in different contexts (e.g., different academic disciplines and workplace writing situations).

CE 1.4.7 Recognize the role of research, including student research, as a contribution to collective knowledge, selecting an appropriate method or genre through which research ﬁndings will be shared and evaluated,keeping in mind the needs of the prospective audience. (e.g., presentations, online sharing, written products such as a research report, a research brief, a multi-genre report, I-Search, literary analysis, news article).

Correlating Common Core ELA 9-12 and CCR Anchor Standards (June 2010) and Michigan HSCE:

Good standards to invoke. You also have lessons that reference language and style that pertain to Standard 4. You also have a research component not referenced here.
 * Standard 2.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
 * Standard 1.2.3: (10) Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. *These broad types of writing include many sub-genres. See Appendix A for definitions of key writing types.
 * Standard 4.2: (3) Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
 * Standard 1.4: (8) Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and over-reliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.
 * Standard 3.1.2: (3) Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, howthe action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).