Adapt speaking style, vocabulary, tone, and register for formal and informal contexts, including code-switching fluently in college and career settings.

Cite specific textual evidence from primary and secondary sources and determine central ideas with accurate summaries.

Analyze rhetorical strategies in complex texts and integrate/evaluate multiple sources presented in various media and formats.

Refine arguments by anticipating audience concerns and biases, balance claim and counterclaim development, and write complete and timed argument essays at the Grade 11-12 level.

Understand, craft, organize, and develop claims and counterclaims using relevant and sufficient evidence at the Grade 11-12 level.

Initiate and participate effectively in collaborative discussions on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing your own clearly and persuasively.

Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific vocabulary at the college and career readiness level with independence.

Write strong conclusions for discipline-specific arguments and understand the purposes and formats of informative writing across disciplines.

Use sentence and text context, grammatical function, and morphological patterns to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words in complex academic texts.

Conduct short and sustained research projects by generating self-directed questions, adjusting inquiry scope, and synthesizing multiple sources.

Design and deliver presentations that convey a clear perspective, follow a logical structure, and adapt substance and style to purpose, audience, and task.

Determine figurative, connotative, and technical meanings of words and phrases, and analyze how authors refine key terms over a text.

Use dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection to develop experiences, events, and characters in a narrative.