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Minnesota Standards

Minnesota 10th Grade ELA Standards

All 40 Minnesota English language arts standards for 10th grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Minnesota Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

40 standards

Reading

19 standards
10.1.2.1
Read on your own and combine understanding from several texts to make sense of a topic, annotating as you go, with guidance and support.
10.1.2.2
Choose and read grade 10 level texts with strong understanding for academic tasks, like a historical speech or a lab report.
10.1.2.3
Find, choose and read texts by several authors on one topic or theme to explore it from different viewpoints.
10.1.3.1
Select texts for interest, enjoyment or class work that represent Dakota and Anishinaabe people today and in history, and use them to examine ideas, issues or histories.
10.1.4.1
Cite strong, thorough text evidence for what a text says and implies, analyze how and when the author introduces ideas or characters, and summarize objectively.
10.1.4.2
Analyze and compare themes or central ideas across texts, researching and interpreting how each author's perspective, identity and bias may affect them.
10.1.4.3
Analyze how events, ideas and complex characters develop through a literary text and move the plot forward.
10.1.4.4
Compare how two authors lay out a series of ideas or events in informational texts, including the order of points, how they develop and how they connect.
10.1.5.1
Evaluate how an author's ordering of events, like parallel, linear or nonlinear plots, affects a text.
10.1.5.2
Evaluate how specific sentences, paragraphs or whole sections of an informational piece build and sharpen an author's ideas or claims.
10.1.5.3
Evaluate how illustrations, graphics and other audio or visual features affect a text's use, meaning and visual appeal.
10.1.6.1
Analyze how a writer's purpose, named identities, biases and viewpoint, including Dakota and Anishinaabe writers, shape both content and style.
10.1.6.2
Analyze how the date a text was published affects how valid and credible it is today in literature, social studies or science.
10.1.6.3
Map out a text's argument and claims, judge whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence relevant and sufficient, and flag false statements and logical fallacies.
Common Core RI.9-10.8
10.1.7.1
Analyze arguments by several authors with similar or different views on one topic, judging the relevance and sufficiency of evidence and soundness of reasoning.
10.1.8.1
Evaluate how vocabulary, including key words with more than one meaning, affects content, style and meaning in literature.
10.1.8.2
Analyze the impact of word choices in informational texts, including words whose origins point to a culture, time period or place.
10.1.9.1
Gather information from many sources covering both sides of an issue or several viewpoints to broaden your understanding of an inquiry topic.
10.1.9.2
Make careful choices about which sources to use, based on their perspective, bias, credibility and relevance.

Writing

15 standards
10.2.1.1
Write and edit to meet the style manual for the subject and purpose, like APA for a science report, with guidance.
10.2.1.3
Use strong command of grammar and mechanics to shape voice and style in your writing.
10.2.2.1
Write regularly across tasks, purposes and audiences, choosing topics and formats and including charts, tables or other visuals when useful.
10.2.2.2
Write in a way that shows your own perspective, identity and voice as part of a global community.
10.2.3.1
Write and revise to fit the rules of different publications, like character counts, word limits, structure and style.
10.2.3.2
Pick words and build sentences on purpose to shape meaning or style, keeping the reader and situation in mind.
10.2.4.1
Write arguments and counterarguments with evidence, showing a solid grasp of the real issues behind the argument.
10.2.4.2
Write persuasive pieces that show you understand the real issues tied to your position.
10.2.5.1
Write to inform or explain complex ideas, checking that facts are accurate and relevant, using precise terms and fitting structure, and keeping an objective tone.
10.2.5.2
Write a response to literature that analyzes narrative elements either in more depth or across a wider range.
10.2.6.1
Write creative pieces in various forms using basic and advanced literary techniques and a range of creative skills for different tasks and purposes.
10.2.6.2
Choose a structure that fits the task and purpose in your stories, poems or other creative writing.
10.2.7.1
Pose your own questions to solve a problem and guide an inquiry, adding new questions for further research.
10.2.7.2
Plan and carry out independent research, pulling together information from varied sources to show understanding of the subject, and report findings in writing.
10.2.8.1
Quote, paraphrase and summarize a wide range of print and digital sources, citing them in a style manual's format without plagiarizing, with guidance.

Listening, Speaking, Viewing and Exchanging Ideas

6 standards
10.3.1.1
Lead and join discussions on grade 10 topics, weighing Dakota, Anishinaabe and other views, building on others' ideas, setting group rules and roles, and resolving conflict.
10.3.1.2
Come prepared and push discussions further with questions tied to larger themes, bring others in, and clarify, verify or challenge ideas and conclusions.
10.3.1.3
Respond thoughtfully to diverse views and feedback, sum up where people agree and disagree, and defend or adjust your ideas as you revise.
10.3.2.1
Make strong choices in vocabulary, structure and speaking techniques like rhetorical questions, online and face to face, with the audience and setting in mind.
10.3.3.1
Choose and use the communication style that best fits the task, purpose, audience and subject, communicating ethically and safely.
10.3.3.2
Create, share and present a digital piece alone or in a group, which may remix others' work ethically, then publish it with your audience and digital footprint in mind.

The official Minnesota documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Minnesota's standards, not the official wording, which Minnesota Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.