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8.5 Language
- Reading: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend, analyze, and/or evaluate a variety of texts.
- 8.5.R.1 Students will recognize active and passive voice and misplaced and dangling modifiers in sentences.
- 8.5.R.2 Students will recognize and explain the impact on meaning of parts of speech in sentences:
- 8.5.R.2.a nouns
- 8.5.R.2.b verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, infinitives)
- 8.5.R.2.c cumulative and coordinate adjectives
- 8.5.R.2.d vague pronouns
- 8.5.R.2.e singular they/them/their
- 8.5.R.2.f coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions
- 8.5.R.2.g adverbs
- 8.5.R.2.h interjections
- Writing: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to speak and write effectively, demonstrating standard usage when appropriate.
- 8.5.W.1 Students will compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to add clarity and variety in their writing.
- 8.5.W.2 Students will create clarity and/or add variety to their writing with nouns, verbs, verbals, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, pronouns, and conjunctions.
- 8.5.W.3 Students will recognize and correct the following: misplaced and dangling modifiers, vague pronouns, and second person point of view in formal writing.
- 8.5.W.4 Students will write using correct capitalization mechanics.
- 8.5.W.5 Students will write using correct end mark mechanics.
- 8.5.W.6 Students will write using correct apostrophe mechanics.
- 8.5.W.7 Students will use commas to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., a fascinating, enjoyable movie).
- 8.5.W.8 Students will use a colon to introduce a quotation from a source.
- 8.5.W.9 Students will write using correct quotation marks mechanics.
- 8.5.W.10 Students will use underlining or italics to indicate titles of works, thoughts in narratives, and words in a foreign language.
- 8.5.W.11 Students will use a semicolon to punctuate compound and compound-complex sentences.