Academic Standard

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Initiative: 
Common Core State Standards
Framework: 
English Language Arts & Literacy
Type: 
Standard
Code: 
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.9
Grade range: 
11 to 12
Groupings:
Category = Research to Build and Present Knowledge
 
Elements within this Standard
 
Component
W.11-12.9a 
Apply grades 11-12 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century…
W.11-12.9b 
Apply grades 11-12 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the…
 
 
Resources aligned with this Standard
 
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Embedded Media
 
Beowulf ("99 Luftballoons" by Nena)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
Academic Lesson
 
A Creative Twist to The Tragedy of Macbeth
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 12
 
African American Involvement in WWII
Multiple content areas
Grades 11 - 12
 
American Frontiers
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
An Introduction to Beowulf: Language and Poetics
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Analyzing "The Gospel of Wealth"
Multiple content areas
Grade 11
 
Analyzing Character Development Based on Historical Context
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
But This Book Has Pictures! The Case for Graphic Novels in an AP Classroom
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Colonial America Timeline
Social Studies
Grades 9 - 11
 
Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, Problem-Solution: Common Text Types in the New York Times. Author: Katherine Schulten
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Conflicting Newspaper Accounts
Social Studies
Grades 11 - 12
 
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Current Electricity
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Current Issues and Critical Thinking: Informational Text Activities. Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Debunking Civil War Photographs: The Case of the Moved Body
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Defining Literacy in a Digital World
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Depression or Oppression: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by C.P. Gilman
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Electrostatics Tutorial
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
eReading Worksheets: Text Structure
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Exploring
Social Studies
Grade 11
 
Exploring FSA Photography & Photojournalism: Gee's Bend, Alabama
Multiple content areas
Grades 8 - 12
 
Families in Bondage
Social Studies
Grades 9 - 12
 
FSA Photography: Creating a Local Archive
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature Using Graphics
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 11
 
Graphics in Technical Communication
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 12
 
Heart of Darkness
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Hurricanes in History
Related Arts
Grades 6 - 12
 
Investigating an Icon of the Great Depression: the Migrant Mother
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
Science
Grades 11 - 12
 
LaunchPad: Flannery O'Connor's South
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Life on the Great Plains
Social Studies
Grades 9 - 12
 
Making Sense of Mental Health: Past and Present. Story and Research Project.
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 11
 
Manifest Destiny: War on the Plains
Multiple content areas
Grades 8 - 11
 
Media for "The Final Scene" Hamlet Activity
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 12
 
Multimedia Heroes Analysis
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 11
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
New Deal Critics
Multiple content areas
Grade 11
 
Perspective on the Slave Narrative
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Lesson Plans Based on Informational Text
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Multiple content areas
Grades K - 12
 
Radioactive Decay Activity
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Seeking Social Justice Through Satire: Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
ELA / Literacy
Grades 10 - 12
 
Signs of the Time Project [how time periods affect literature - coincides with choice novel studies]. Author: Intel Education.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Study Guide F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Teacher Resources/Lesson Plans Using the CIA Web Site
Multiple content areas
Grade 11
 
Teaching Lord of the Flies with The New York Times. Author: Holly Oljavo and Shannon Doyne, The New York Times.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Teaching the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Leadership and Impact of Booker T. Washington
Multiple content areas
Grade 11
 
The Little Rock Nine
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Progressive Movement: Life as a Muckraker
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Time Magazine's 2011 Person of the Year: The Protestor. Author: Jennie Spiegler, Teachable Moment.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
U.S. History: Revolution- The Dangers of Factionalism: Federalist No. 10
Multiple content areas
Grades 8 - 12
 
Waves on a String
Science
Grades 9 - 12
 
Writing Technical Instructions
ELA / Literacy
Grades 4 - 11
Academic Web Link
 
1D Kinematics Problem Set
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
All About Adolescent Literacy
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, Problem-Solution: Common Text Types in the New York Times
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Constructing Arguments: "Room for Debate" and the Common Core Standards
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Dracula
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Eighteen Literacy Strategies for Struggling Readers
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
English Literature (Infoplease)
Multiple content areas
Grades 4 - 12
 
Essential Science for Teachers: Rising and Sinking
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: Interactive Tone and Perception Activity. Author: Edsitement.
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Half-life Simulation
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Heat and Temperature
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
High School Reading Scoring Guide - Informational Text. Author: Oregon Dept. of Education
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 12
 
Human Genome Project
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
INFORMATIONAL TEXT: TEACHER HOT TIPS
ELA / Literacy
Grades K - 12
 
Informational Text: What's It All About? Author: Rita Maddox, Language Arts Consultant
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12
 
Interactive Media Community Service Project
Multiple content areas
Grades K - 11
 
Jekyll and Hyde Anticipation Guide Flipchart
ELA / Literacy
Grades 10 - 12
 
Literary Periods of British Literature
Multiple content areas
Grades 3 - 12
 
Lyrical Legacy: 400 Years of American Song and Poetry. Author: Library of Congress.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 10 - 11
 
Middle English Literature Genres
Multiple content areas
Grades 5 - 12
 
Natural Selection
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Newton's Laws Problem Set
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Physics 2000
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Physics for the 21st Century
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Postermodernism. A list of Postmodern Characteristics.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 7 - 12
 
Private Universe Project: Workshop 3
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Reader Idea: Debates on Persuasive Language
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Reading Images: An Approach and a Demonstration
ELA / Literacy
Grade 11
 
Sources of Genetic Diversity
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
Suggestions for Pairing Contemporary Music and Canonical Literature. Author: Dr. Freddie A. Bowles and Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Teaching Nonfiction Books in AP English Language
ELA / Literacy
Grades K - 11
 
Teaching Text Structure
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
Teaching with Infographics: Places to Start. Author: The New York Times.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Mechanical Universe:
Multiple content areas
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Modernism Lab (Yale)
ELA / Literacy
Grades 5 - 12
 
The Power of Fiction
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for Informational Text
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
War Literature
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Wired for Books. Author: Ohio University.
ELA / Literacy
Grades 5 - 12
Instructional Strategy
 
Definition and Examples of Graphics
ELA / Literacy
Grades 3 - 12
Academic Unit
 
Edmondson Park
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12
 
This three-lesson Othello Unit utilizes multiple technologies
ELA / Literacy
Grades 9 - 12
 
User's Guide for Abolition of Slavery Unit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
User's Guide for Narrating Women's Lives Unit
ELA / Literacy
Grades 11 - 12
 
Witness Walls: Interdisciplinary Unit
Multiple content areas
Grades 6 - 12