Knowledge and Skills Statement
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.5.9.C
Provide small groups of students with a play that has multiple scenes. Task students with reading the play and discussing the significance of a change in scene.
Further Explanation
This SE requires students to understand that, much like a novel’s use of paragraphs or chapters to group a plot’s related moments of action, dramas rely on acts and scenes to signal major transitions within the text.