Student+Performance

Identify and interpret figurative language – including similes and metaphors. Make reasonable statements and draw conclusions about a text, supporting them with evidence from the text. Define how tone and meaning are conveyed through word choice, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, punctuation,rhythm, alliteration, and rhyme. Explain the effects of common literary devices, such as symbolism, imagery, simile, and metaphor in a variety of fictional and nonfictional texts. Deliver oral responses to literature that: • develop an interpretation that shows careful reading, understanding, and insight. • organize the presentation around several clear ideas, premises, or images. • develop and justify the interpretation through the use of examples from the text.
 * 6th Grade Objectives**

Make reasonable statements and draw conclusions about a text, supporting them with accurate examples. Determine and articulate the relationship between the purposes and characteristics of different forms of poetry (including ballads, lyrics, couplets, epics, elegies, odes, and sonnets). Identify significant literary devices, such as metaphor, symbolism, dialect or quotations, and irony, which define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work. Deliver oral responses to literature that: • interpret a reading and provide insight, connect personal responses to the writer's techniques and to specific textual references. • make supported inferences about the effects of a literary work on its audience. • support judgments through references to the text, other works, other authors, or personal knowledge.
 * 8th Grade Objectives **




 * Students in both grade levels will be continually evaluated and assessed during the lesson through**
 * analysis/explication planning worksheets, quizzes, checklists, and teacher conferences. A rubric will be**
 * used to evaluate the final project. Students will also complete a reflection sheet.**