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Florida 11th Grade ELA B.E.S.T. Standards

All 24 Florida English language arts standards for 11th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is one click away under each one.

24 standards

Reading

12 standards
Reading Prose and Poetry
ELA.11.R.1.1
Judge how well elements like setting, conflict, point of view and tone add layers of meaning or style to a literary work.
Official wording
Evaluate how key elements enhance or add layers of meaning and/or style in a literary text.
ELA.11.R.1.2
Track and analyze universal themes across literature from different eras and cultures, like the struggle to understand oneself.
Official wording
Track and analyze universal themes in literary texts from different times and places.
ELA.11.R.1.3
Analyze how an author sets characters or ideas side by side to reveal a character's outlook, like a rich family placed in contrast with a poor one.
Official wording
Analyze the author’s choices in using juxtaposition to define character perspective.
ELA.11.R.1.4
Analyze how poems reflect the issues and themes of the era they were written in, like Romantic poems about nature and industry.
Official wording
Analyze ways in which poetry reflects themes and issues of its time period.
Reading Informational Text
ELA.11.R.2.1
Judge how well a nonfiction text's structure and features, like its headings, footnotes or appendices, serve the reader.
Official wording
Evaluate the structure(s) and features in texts.
ELA.11.R.2.2
Analyze the main ideas of speeches and essays from ancient Greece and Rome, like a speech by Pericles or Cicero.
Official wording
Analyze the central idea(s) of speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
ELA.11.R.2.3
Analyze the choices ancient Greek and Roman speakers and essayists make to set and achieve a purpose, like an orator's appeal to civic pride.
Official wording
Analyze an author’s choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
ELA.11.R.2.4
Compare several arguments on one topic, judging their claims and reasoning and how each author uses the same information toward different goals.
Official wording
Compare the development of multiple arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims, the authors’ reasoning, and the ways in which the authors use the same information to achieve different ends.
Reading Across Genres
ELA.11.R.3.1
Analyze an author's figurative language and explain allegories, stories whose characters and events stand for bigger ideas, like Animal Farm.
Official wording
Analyze the author’s use of figurative language and explain examples of allegory.
ELA.11.R.3.2
Paraphrase eleventh grade texts accurately, like turning a complex argument from an ancient essay into clear modern sentences.
Official wording
Paraphrase content from grade-level texts.
ELA.11.R.3.3
Compare and contrast how authors writing in the same era treat related topics, weighing their reasoning and reading each text against its time period.
Official wording
Compare and contrast how contemporaneous authors address related topics, comparing the authors’ use of reasoning and analyzing the texts within the context of the time period.
ELA.11.R.3.4
Judge how effectively an author uses rhetoric, including appeals to logic, emotion, credibility and timing, and devices like antithesis.
Official wording
Evaluate an author’s use of rhetoric in text.

Communication

9 standards
Communicating Through Writing
ELA.11.C.1.2
Write layered stories that use techniques like alternating narrators to show several perspectives on the same events.
Official wording
Write complex narratives using appropriate techniques to establish multiple perspectives.
ELA.11.C.1.3
Write literary analyses that support claims about a work with sound reasoning, credible evidence and explanation, showing a grasp of elements like theme and symbol.
Official wording
Write literary analyses to support claims, using logical reasoning, credible evidence from sources, and elaboration, demonstrating an understanding of literary elements.
ELA.11.C.1.4
Write an analysis of a challenging text that is logically organized, uses a tone and voice suited to the task and readers, and shows real understanding.
Official wording
Write an analysis of complex texts using logical organization and a tone and voice appropriate to the task and audience, demonstrating an understanding of the subject.
ELA.11.C.1.5
Revise writing for clarity, structure and style using feedback from teachers, peers or online editing tools.
Official wording
Improve writing by considering feedback from adults, peers, and/or online editing tools, revising to improve clarity, structure, and style.
Communicating Orally
ELA.11.C.2.1
Give an organized, focused oral presentation backed by credible evidence, using rhetorical devices like repetition or rhetorical questions where they fit.
Official wording
Present information orally, with a logical organization, coherent focus, and credible evidence, while employing effective rhetorical devices where appropriate.
Following Conventions
ELA.11.C.3.1
Write with correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization and spelling for eleventh grade, applying usage rules so sentences flow smoothly.
Official wording
Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.
Researching
ELA.11.C.4.1
Research a question about literature, refining it to fit interpretations of the texts and combining what primary and secondary sources say.
Official wording
Conduct literary research to answer a question, refining the scope of the question to align with interpretations of texts and synthesizing information from primary and secondary sources.
Creating and Collaborating
ELA.11.C.5.1
Create a digital presentation that combines different kinds of media to make the experience more engaging for the audience.
Official wording
Create digital presentations to improve the experience of the audience.
ELA.11.C.5.2
Create a polished piece for a specific audience with multimedia elements and publish it on a website or a school network site.
Official wording
Create and export quality writing tailored to a specific audience, integrating multimedia elements, publishing to an online or LAN site.

Vocabulary

3 standards
Finding Meaning
ELA.11.V.1.1
Use advanced academic words, like paradigm, mitigate and ambiguous, deliberately when speaking and writing across subjects.
Official wording
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.
ELA.11.V.1.2
Work out meanings by tracing word origins and derived forms, like quarantine coming from the Italian for forty days.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of etymology and derivations to determine meanings of words and phrases in grade-level content.
ELA.11.V.1.3
Pin down the literal and suggested meanings of words and phrases with context, figures of speech, related words, references or prior knowledge, like frugal versus cheap.
Official wording
Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference materials, and/or background knowledge to determine the connotative and denotative meaning of words and phrases, appropriate to grade level.

The official Florida documents

Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts, Florida Department of Education.

The plain-English lines are EMStudio's own explanations, shown beside the official wording. They are not part of the standards.