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South Carolina Standards

South Carolina English 2 ELA Standards

All 33 South Carolina English language arts standards for English 2, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in South Carolina Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

33 standards

Overarching Expectations

6 standards
ELA.E2.OE.1
Read and write for academic and personal purposes over long periods, like keeping a reading log across a novel unit or writing a multi-draft research essay.
ELA.E2.OE.2
Build, refine, and share what you know using many media, like a podcast episode, an infographic, a recorded speech, or an online discussion board.
ELA.E2.OE.3
Use text clues and what you already know to infer what a writer implies, like the real reason behind a polite refusal in a historical letter.
ELA.E2.OE.4
Collaborate with peers and listen closely, like asking a follow-up question before responding during a Socratic seminar.
ELA.E2.OE.5
Support claims and explain your reasoning with cited evidence, like a quotation from a primary source to defend a reading of a speech.
ELA.E2.OE.6
Create high-quality work in the required format, like a report or an essay with correct margins, spacing, and citations.

Applications of Reading

14 standards
ELA.E2.AOR.1.1
Analyze how several points of view, the context, and key elements deepen meaning or shape style in and across texts, like two narrators recounting one event.
ELA.E2.AOR.1.2
Analyze an author's figurative language in one or more texts and explain how an allegory works, like a story whose characters stand for political ideas.
ELA.E2.AOR.2.1
Analyze how universal themes unfold across literature from different eras, places, or cultures, like the cost of ambition in an ancient myth and a modern novel.
ELA.E2.AOR.2.2
Analyze how a historical speech or essay builds its central idea through supporting details, like the examples stacked up in a famous civil rights address.
ELA.E2.AOR.3.1
Analyze how gaps between what characters and readers know create suspense, humor, or sarcasm, including situational, dramatic, and verbal irony.
ELA.E2.AOR.4.1
Analyze an author's viewpoint or purpose and judge how well the rhetoric advances it, like the emotional appeals in a campaign speech.
ELA.E2.AOR.5.1
Analyze how an author's choices in building a story, ordering its events, and handling time create mystery, tension, or surprise, like an ending revealed first.
ELA.E2.AOR.5.2
Analyze the effect of an informational text's structures and features, then explain how the author could make it more effective, like by adding a timeline.
ELA.E2.AOR.5.3
Compare how two authors on opposite sides build their arguments and judge each one's reasoning, rhetoric, and claims, like two op-eds on school uniforms.
ELA.E2.AOR.6.1
Summarize or paraphrase grade-level texts to deepen understanding, like condensing a news article into three key sentences in your own words.
ELA.E2.AOR.7.1
Clarify unknown, familiar, or multiple-meaning words by using sentence context, background knowledge, or reference tools for precise meaning, part of speech, and usage.
ELA.E2.AOR.8.1
Interpret figurative, connotative, and technical wording, like what a hyperbole does in context, subtle differences between similar words, and how diction shapes tone.
ELA.E2.AOR.9.1
Apply knowledge of word origins to unlock new or tricky words, like using the Greek root chron to figure out chronic and anachronism.
ELA.E2.AOR.10.1
Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of presenting a topic in different media, like comparing a novel scene in print, on film, and as a stage performance.

Research

5 standards
ELA.E2.R.1.1
Research questions or problems in short and longer projects, answering a question you came up with using varied sources and narrowing it for your purpose and audience.
ELA.E2.R.1.2
Analyze sources for credibility and relevance and keep only reliable ones that fit the research goal, like favoring a peer-reviewed study over an anonymous blog.
ELA.E2.R.1.3
Sort through research findings to decide which ones truly fit your topics and the goal of your inquiry, like dropping an interesting but off-topic statistic.
ELA.E2.R.1.4
Arrange findings logically for your purpose and audience, like ordering evidence from least to most convincing for a persuasive presentation.
ELA.E2.R.1.5
Credit every source using a standard academic citation style, like APA or MLA, to avoid plagiarism in essays and research projects.

Written and Oral Communications

8 standards
ELA.E2.C.1.1
Write an argument on a topic or text with a precise claim, enough credible evidence, rebutted counterclaims, clearly linked sections, a fitting tone, and an ending.
ELA.E2.C.2.1
Write informative essays from several sources, choosing relevant facts, quotes, and data, linking ideas with varied transitions, and keeping an objective tone.
ELA.E2.C.3.1
Use storytelling within other writing, like an anecdote that opens an essay or backs a claim, with a clear setup, dialogue, pacing, vivid details, and a purposeful end.
ELA.E2.C.4.1
Write varied sentences while applying conventions, like colons, semicolons to join related clauses, dashes for emphasis, and fixing fragments, run-ons, and shifts.
ELA.E2.C.5.1
Strengthen drafts by planning, editing, and weighing feedback from teachers and peers, then revising for clarity and a style that fits the audience and task.
ELA.E2.C.7.1
Present findings and evidence clearly, concisely, and in logical order, using eye contact, pacing, intonation, credible evidence, visuals, and online publishing tools.
ELA.E2.C.8.1
Lead and join structured discussions, asking questions that build on and clarify ideas, adjusting your thinking to new information, and qualifying views with evidence.
ELA.E2.C.9.1
Analyze a live or recorded presentation for its message, media, and audience, how valid its evidence is, and the speaker's motives, logical fallacies, and biases.

The official South Carolina documents

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