cc_English Language Arts_Grade 9_Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways

Text and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:

• Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.
• Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.
• Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.
• Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.
• Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements).

Students should be prompted to demonstrate comprehension, understanding of connection, and thoughtfulness; support positions with evidence/reasoning; identify and challenge their own assumptions; show awareness of their emotional and cognitive reactions and of their own point of view; and show they can consider texts from different point of views.