New York State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 12

NY.1. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

1.1. Locate and use school, public, academic, and special library resources for information and research (use primary and secondary sources, such as dictionaries and abstracts)

1.2. Locate and use school, public, academic, and special library resources for information and research (set purpose for reading by asking questions about what they need to know for their research)

1.3. Check consistency of hypothesis with given information and assumption

1.4. Analyze and synthesize information from different sources by making connections and showing relationships to other texts, ideas, subjects, and the world at large (employ a range of post-reading practices to think about new learning and to plan future learning)

NY.2. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

2.1. Recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situations from short stories, novels, plays, film and video productions, poems, and essays (read and discuss literary criticism)

2.2. Recognize and analyze the relevance of literature to contemporary and/or personal events and situations from short stories, novels, plays, film and video productions, poems, and essays (engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaden perspectives)

2.3. Read, view, and respond independently to literary works that represent a range of social, historical, and cultural perspectives

2.4. Compare a film, video, or stage version of a literary work with the written version

2.5. Read literary texts aloud to convey an interpretation of the work

2.6. Read and interpret literary texts from a range of authors, genres, and subjects, including literary criticism

2.7. Interpret multiple levels of meaning and subtleties in text

NY.3. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

3.1. Analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience (identify text structure, using supports such as graphic organizers)

3.2. Analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience (preview a text (e.g., in order to build a schema), noticing structural markers, such as headings and subheadings)

3.3. Analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience (focus on key word/phrases that signal that the text is heading in a particular direction)

3.4. Analyze and evaluate nonfiction texts, including professional journals, technical manuals, and position papers, to determine the writer's perspectives, purposes, and intended audience (identify the particular kinds of language used in particular texts)

3.5. Analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of sensory imagery

3.6. Analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of figurative language

3.7. Analyze and evaluate poetry in order to recognize the use and effect of verse form

3.8. Engage in oral reading activities, such as choral readings, and a variety of written responses, such as double entry journals, to identify and distinguish examples of verse form

3.9. Form opinions and make judgments about literary works by analyzing and evaluating texts from more than one critical perspective, such as a social perspective

3.10. Select, reject, and reconcile ideas and information in light of beliefs

3.11. Make judgments about the quality of literary texts and performances by applying personal and academic criteria, such as that found in literary criticism

3.12. Analyze and evaluate the intellectual and/or emotional impact of specific texts on the reader

NY.4. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

4.1. Share reading experiences with a peer or adult; for example, read together silently or aloud, and discuss reactions to texts

4.2. Consider the age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the writer

4.3. Understand and anticipate the author's use of tone, diction, and language appropriate to social communication, in a variety of texts and conventions

4.4. Recognize the types of language (e.g., informal vocabulary, culture-specific terminology, jargon, colloquialisms, and email conventions) that are appropriate to social communication

4.5. Withhold judgment

4.6. Appreciate the speaker's uniqueness