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Common Core Standards

Grades 9-10

Reading RL.9-10.8

RL.9-10.8. (Not applicable to literature)

Number 8 in the Common Core Anchor Standards for Reading expects students to “delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence” - an important skill, but one that is, apparently, not applicable to literature.

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