Common Core State Standards - Reading Social Studies Informational Texts
Key Ideas and details
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
- Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
- Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
- Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.*
- Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
- Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
- Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standards - Writing
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1
Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.A
Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.B
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.C
Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.D
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.E
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.A
Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.B
Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.C
Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.D
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.E
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
North Carolina Essential Standards - US History 1&2 and World History
WH/AH1/AH2 – 1.1 Use Chronological thinking to:
WH/AH1/AH2 – 1.2 Use Historical Comprehension to:
WH/AH1/AH2 – 1.3 Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation to:
- Identify the structure of a historical narrative or story: (its beginning, middle and end).
- Interpret data presented in time lines and create time lines.
WH/AH1/AH2 – 1.2 Use Historical Comprehension to:
- Reconstruct the literal meaning of a historical passage.
- Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations.
- Analyze data in historical maps.
- Analyze visual, literary and musical sources.
WH/AH1/AH2 – 1.3 Use Historical Analysis and Interpretation to:
- Identify issues and problems in the past.
- Consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past.
- Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and multiple causation.
- Evaluate competing historical narratives and debates among historians.
- Evaluate the influence of the past on contemporary issues.