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Shakespeare: Language and Themes

10th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RL.9-10.4 | Shakespeare: Language and Themes - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 — Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 — Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 — Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other character

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