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SWBAT use specific details and evidence, including citations, to summarize and analyze the way central themes develop in speech and text by using multiple strategies while attempting complex sentences.

SWBAT engage in written and oral exchanges on a range of topics while expressing and building on ideas using evidence, as well as asking and answering questions to clarify and summarize key points using expanded verb phrases.

SWBAT deliver oral presentations and compose written informational texts to develop the topic with some relevant details and examples, while integrating graphics or multimedia when useful about a variety of texts, topics, or events.

SWBAT construct a claim about a variety of topics by introducing the topic, providing logically ordered reasons or facts that effectively support the claim, and providing a concluding statement using transitional phrases.

SWBAT complete short research projects by gathering and synthesizing information from multiple sources while integrating new information and citing sources accurately.

SWBAT analyze reasons and discourse used in persuasive texts or speeches by determining where the evidence supports the claim while using complex conjunctions.

SWBAT adapt language choices and style according to purpose, task, and audience, while using a wider range of complex words and phrases and using a formal register in speech and writing.

SWBAT use context, increasingly complex visual aids, reference materials, and an increasing knowledge of English morphology, determine the meaning of general academic and content-specific words and phrases, figurative and connotative language, and a growing number of idiomatic expressions in texts about a variety of topics, experiences, or events.

SWBAT retell a detailed sequence to introduce and develop an informational topic with facts, details, and evidence, use a variety of more complex transitions to link major sections and to clarify relationships among events and ideas, and to provide a concluding section or statement.

SWBAT use increasingly complex phrases and clauses to produce and expand simple, compound, and complex sentences to attempt communicating in an active and passive voice.

SWBAT attempt complex sentences with descriptive language.