Standard 1: Reading Prose and Poetry

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Number: ELA.10.R.1

Title: Reading Prose and Poetry

Type: Standard

Subject: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)

Grade: 10

Strand: Reading

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Related Access Points

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Access Points

ELA.10.R.1.AP.2

Compare how universal themes and their development are used throughout a literary text.

ELA.10.R.1.AP.3a

Identify how the author represents conflicting perspectives.

ELA.10.R.1.AP.3b

Explain the coming-of-age experiences reflected in a text.

ELA.10.R.1.AP.4

Explain how authors create multiple layers of meaning and/or ambiguity in a poem.

ELA.10.R.1.AP.1

Explain how key elements increase understanding of literary text and/or style

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Type: Original Student Tutorial

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Read excerpts from Bram Stoker’s famous novel Dracula. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine how the author creates suspense using the narrative techniques of exposition, foreshadowing, and imagery.

Make sure to complete both parts of this series! Click HERE to launch Part Two.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part Two: Universal Themes:

Continue to analyze William Wordsworth's poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" to determine a universal theme and explain how it was developed throughout the poem.

This interactive tutorial is part 2 of a three-part series. Make sure to complete all three parts.

Click HERE to view "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part One: Identifying Topics in a Wordsworth Poem."
Click HERE to view "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part Three: Comparing Universal Themes."

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Analyzing Poems of Spring – Part Three: Comparing Universal Themes:

Analyze and compare the universal themes in two of Wordsworth's poems—"Lines Written in Early Spring" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"—in this interactive tutorial.

This is the final part of a three-part series. Make sure to complete parts one and two first!

Click HERE to open "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part One: Identifying Topics in a Wordsworth Poem."
Click HERE to open "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part Two: Universal Themes."

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part One: Identifying Topics in a Wordsworth Poem:

Study William Wordsworth's poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" and identify multiple topics in the poem in this interactive tutorial. In subsequent tutorials, you'll determine a universal theme of this poem and then compare universal themes in two Wordsworth poems.

This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Make sure to complete all three parts!

Click HERE to view "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part Two: Universal Themes."
Click HERE to view "Analyzing Poems of Spring -- Part Three: Comparing Universal Themes."

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Read and study excerpts from Willa Cather's classic novel My Antonia to analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding the selection of the narrator, where the story is set, and how the main character is introduced and developed.

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Type: Original Student Tutorial

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Read and study excerpts from Willa Cather's classic novel My Antonia to analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding the selection of the narrator, the setting, and how the main character is introduced and developed.

This interactive tutorial is Part One of three-part series. Click below to open the other tutorials in the series.

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This tutorial is the second in a two-part series. Click HERE to launch Part One.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

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Examine the topics of transformation and perfection as you read excerpts from the “Myth of Pygmalion” by Ovid and the short story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. By the end of this two-part interactive tutorial series, you should be able to explain how the short story draws on and transforms source material from the original myth.

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After completing Part One, click HERE for Part Two.

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