Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.A:
Students express opinions and support them through references to the text:

• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to construct meaning

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.B:
Students describe the features of the genre to interpret and respond to literary text.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.C:
Students use literary devices, such as volume, rate, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, to create an emotional or aesthetic response.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.D:
Students use media to support presentation of original and interpretive texts.

Performance Indicator - ELA.9.S.2.E:
Students ask and respond to questions and follow-up questions to clarify interpretation:

• engage in a variety of collaborative conversations, such as peer-led discussions, paired reading and responding, and cooperative group discussions, to make applications of the ideas in the text to other situations, extending the ideas to broaded perspectives