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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
to create a piece of writing such as a speech or a story
texts that represent regional, economic, social, and ethnic differences through subject matter and/or characters
Students are expected to apply the elements and techniques of various literary genres and the craft elements common to the construction of texts in those genres to their own writing. Students should be able to synthesize these structures and techniques in their own compositions to achieve specific purposes.