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Choose six standards to show your thinking to post to your website. Be prepared to summarize why you chose these standards when meeting with your teacher. Please choose standards from all three areas: Writing
_____WS1.2 Create multipleparagraph expository compositions: topic, important ideas or events, sequence or chronological order, details and transitional expressions to link paragraphs in clear line, concluding paragraph that su, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. _____WS1.6 Edit and revise manuscripts to improve the meaning and focus of writing by adding, deleting, consolidating, clarifying, and rearranging words and sentences. _____WOELC1.1 Identify and correctly use prepositional phrases, appositives, and independent and dependent clauses; use transitions and conjunctions to connect ideas. _____WOELC1.2 Identify and correctly use verbs that are often misused (lay/lie, etc.) modifiers, and pronouns. _____WOELC1.3 Use a colon to separate hours and minutes and to introduce a list; use quotation marks around the exact words of speaker and titles of poems, songs, short stories, and so forth. _____WOELC1.5 Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions correctly.

Reading

_____WA1.3 Understand and explain frequently used synonyms, antonyms, and homographs. _____WA1.5 Understand and explain the figurative and metaphorical _____RC 2.2 Analyze text that is organized in sequential or chronological order. _____RC2.3 Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas. _____RC2.4 Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge. _____LRA3.2 Identify the main problem or conflict of the plot and explain how it is resolved.

Math

_____NS 1.2 Interpret percents as a part of a hundred; find decimal and percent equivalents for common fractions & explain why they represent same value; compute a given %of a whole number. _____NS 2.1 +, - , x, and with decimals; add with negative integers; subtract positive integers from negative integers; and verify the reasonableness of the results. _____NS2.3 Solve simple problems, including ones arising in concrete situations, involving the + and - of fractions and mixed numbers, and express _____AF1.2 Use a letter to represent an unknown number; write and evaluate simple algebraic expressions in one variable by substitution. _____AF1.5 Solve problems involving linear functions with integer values; write the equation; and graph the resulting ordered pairs of integers on a grid. _____MG1.3 Understand the concept of volume and use appropriate units in common measuring systems (i.e., cubic centimeter cm3, cubic meter m3, cubic inch in3, cubic yard yd3) to compute the volume of rectangular solids.