Blog Post #7
After reading t he common core state standards for reading literature and reading informational texts, I find that there is a lot expected of a high school student. After reading over the requirements of 9-12 grades multiple times I started to think about they ways in which my teachers may have incorporated these lessons in to my day without me acknowledging it at a student. Being able to understand the authors point of a story or article comes natural to most students who are already in their last years of high school. Although I don't remember my teacher specifically asking me to " Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument" I see how they could incorporate this into a more entertaining or engaging lesson that shows we can do it. While the common core state standards require a lot from the students, being able to read and understand informational texts is the most inportant tool you can come away with from...