Indiana 9th Grade ELA Standards in Reading Literature

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RL Reading: Literature

• Learning Outcome
  • 9-10.RL.1 Read a variety of literature within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 9-10. By the end of grade 9, students interact with texts proficiently and independently at the low end of the range and with scaffolding as needed for texts at the high end of the range.
• Key Ideas and Textual Support
  • 9-10.RL.2.1 Analyze what a text says both explicitly and implicitly as well as inferences and interpretations through citing strong and thorough textual evidence.
  • 9-10.RL.2.2 Analyze in detail the development of two or more themes over the course of a work of literature, including how they emerge and are shaped and refined by specific details.
  • 9-10.RL.2.3 Analyze how dynamic characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
• Structural Elements and Organization
  • 9-10.RL.3.1 Analyze and evaluate how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a work of literature, order events within it (e.g., parallel episodes), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) contribute to the overall meaning and effect of a work.
  • 9-10.RL.3.2 Analyze how the author creates such effects as suspense or humor through differences in the perspective of the characters and the reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony).
• Synthesis and Connection of Ideas
  • 9-10.RL.4.1 Evaluate the extent to which multiple interpretations of a story, play, or poem stay faithful to or departs from the text or script.
  • 9-10.RL.4.2 Analyze and evaluate how works of literary or cultural significance draw on and use allusions, archetypes, symbols and allegories from myths, traditional stories, or religious works, including how the material is rendered new.