Alabama 9th Grade ELA Standards in Critical Literacy

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Critical Literacy

• Reading
  • 1 Read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and informational texts written from various cultural perspectives, with an emphasis on works originating outside the United States and the British Isles through 1599.
  • 2 Analyze information from graphic texts to draw conclusions, defend claims, and make decisions.
  • 3 Analyze how an author’s cultural perspective influences style, language, and themes.
  • 4 Analyze how authors use characterization, connotation, denotation, figurative language, literary elements, and point of view to create and convey meaning in a variety of texts.
  • 5 Analyze the impact of context and organizational structures on theme, tone, and the meaning of the work as a whole.
  • 6 Compare and/or contrast the perspectives in a variety of fiction, nonfiction, informational, digital, and multimodal texts produced from diverse historical, cultural, and global points of view, not limited to the grade-level literary focus.
  • 7 Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines to determine how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content organization.
• Listening
  • 8 Through active listening, evaluate tone, organization, content, and nonverbal cues to determine the purpose and credibility of a speaker.
• Writing
  • 9 Compose both short and extended narrative, informative/explanatory, and argumentative writings that are clear and coherent, use an appropriate command of language, and demonstrate development, organization, style, and tone that are relevant to task, purpose, and audience.
    • 9.a Write a memoir, narrative essay, or personal or fictional narrative to convey a series of events, establishing a clear purpose and using narrative techniques.
    • 9.b Write explanations and expositions that incorporate evidence, using transitions and techniques that objectively introduce and develop topics.
    • 9.c Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning, relevant and sufficient evidence, transitions, and a concluding statement or section that follows from the information presented.
• Speaking
  • 10 Present research findings to a peer audience, either formally or informally, conveying credible, accurate information from multiple sources, including diverse media.
  • 11 Participate in collaborative discussions involving multiple perspectives, responding and contributing with relevant evidence and commentary.