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9.5 Language
- Reading: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend, analyze, and/or evaluate a variety of texts.
- 9.5.R.1 Students will recognize and examine the effect of parallel structure and active and passive voice to convey specific meanings.
- 9.5.R.2 Students will recognize noun, verb, adjectival, and adverbial phrases and explain their effect in particular sentences.
- Writing: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to speak and write effectively, demonstrating standard usage when appropriate.
- 9.5.W.1 Students will use or revise for active/passive voice and parallel structure in words and phrases for effect.
- 9.5.W.2 Students will add clarity, variety, and/or style to their writing and presentations with parts of speech and various types of phrases and clauses.
- 9.5.W.3 Students will recognize and correct misplaced and dangling modifiers.
- 9.5.W.4 Students will write using correct capitalization mechanics.
- 9.5.W.5 Students will write using correct end mark mechanics.
- 9.5.W.6 Students will write using correct apostrophe mechanics.
- 9.5.W.7 Students will use commas to set off simple parenthetical elements.
- 9.5.W.8 Students will use a colon to reveal information (e.g., The prince searched the castle high and low for his most prized possession: his guitar.).
- 9.5.W.9 Students will use an ellipsis to indicate omission from quoted material and brackets to indicate an addition or clarification to quoted material.
- 9.5.W.10 Students will write using correct italics mechanics.
- 9.5.W.11 Students will write using correct semicolon mechanics.