English II (Texas TEKS)

110.37(c)(1) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language

• 110.37(c)(1) Builds oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
• 110.37(c)(1)(A) Takes part in respectful, meaningful discussion: listens actively, responds fittingly, and adjusts to audience and purpose.
• 110.37(c)(1)(B) Follows and gives complex spoken instructions to finish tasks, answer questions, or solve problems.
• 110.37(c)(1)(C) Gives a formal presentation with a clear central claim, sound reasoning, reliable evidence, and well-practiced delivery.
• 110.37(c)(1)(D) Works with peers: builds on their ideas, adds relevant information, plans toward agreement, and sets ground rules for decisions.

110.37(c)(2) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary

• 110.37(c)(2) Uses newly learned vocabulary expressively when speaking and writing.
• 110.37(c)(2)(A) Checks print or digital references to pin down the exact meaning of technical and subject-specific words.
• 110.37(c)(2)(B) Uses context to tell apart a word's literal, associated (connotative), and figurative meanings.
• 110.37(c)(2)(C) Works out the meanings of foreign words and phrases often used in English.

110.37(c)(3) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading

• 110.37(c)(3) Picks own texts and reads independently for extended periods.

110.37(c)(4) Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.37(c)(4) Uses metacognition to build and deepen understanding of increasingly complex texts.
• 110.37(c)(4)(A) Sets a reading purpose for assigned and self-chosen texts.
• 110.37(c)(4)(B) Asks questions before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gather information.
• 110.37(c)(4)(C) Predicts using text features, genre traits, and structure, then checks and adjusts the predictions.
• 110.37(c)(4)(D) Forms mental pictures to deepen understanding.
• 110.37(c)(4)(E) Links the text to own experiences, to other texts, and to society.
• 110.37(c)(4)(F) Draws inferences and backs them up with evidence from the text.
• 110.37(c)(4)(G) Weighs details to identify the key ideas.
• 110.37(c)(4)(H) Combines information across several texts to reach a new understanding.
• 110.37(c)(4)(I) Notices when understanding breaks down and fixes it, for example by rereading, using prior knowledge, asking questions, or annotating.

110.37(c)(5) Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.37(c)(5) Responds to an increasingly challenging range of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
• 110.37(c)(5)(A) Explains personal links to a range of sources, including self-chosen texts.
• 110.37(c)(5)(B) Writes responses that show understanding, including comparisons within and across genres.
• 110.37(c)(5)(C) Backs up an interpretive response with evidence from the text and own commentary.
• 110.37(c)(5)(D) Retells texts in a shorter form that keeps their meaning and logical order.
• 110.37(c)(5)(E) Engages with sources by taking notes, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• 110.37(c)(5)(F) Uses newly learned subject and academic vocabulary in responses where it fits.
• 110.37(c)(5)(G) Talks and writes about what texts say directly and what they suggest.
• 110.37(c)(5)(H) Responds in speech or writing with a suitable register, vocabulary, tone, and voice.
• 110.37(c)(5)(I) Reflects on and changes a response when sound evidence calls for it.
• 110.37(c)(5)(J) Supports or challenges an author's claims with relevant evidence from the text.

110.37(c)(6) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements

• 110.37(c)(6) Recognizes and analyzes literary elements in increasingly complex literary texts.
• 110.37(c)(6)(A) Analyzes how theme grows through characters and plot, including comparing similar themes in texts from different cultures.
• 110.37(c)(6)(B) Analyzes how authors build complex, believable characters, including archetypes, shaped by history and culture.
• 110.37(c)(6)(C) Analyzes stand-alone scenes and what each adds to the whole plot.
• 110.37(c)(6)(D) Analyzes how the historical and cultural setting affects characters, plot, and theme across texts.

110.37(c)(7) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.37(c)(7) Recognizes and analyzes genre traits, structures, and purposes in increasingly complex texts.
• 110.37(c)(7)(A) Reads and analyzes world literature from different literary periods.
• 110.37(c)(7)(B) Analyzes how meter, rhyme scheme, and other poetic conventions shape poems of different forms.
• 110.37(c)(7)(C) Analyzes how dramatic devices such as asides, soliloquies, dramatic irony, and satire work in plays.
• 110.37(c)(7)(D) Analyzes the features and structure of informational texts.
• 110.37(c)(7)(D)(i) Looks at the thesis, the evidence and examples given, and the conclusion.
• 110.37(c)(7)(D)(ii) Looks at how the way the text is organized supports its thesis.
• 110.37(c)(7)(E) Analyzes the features and structure of argumentative texts.
• 110.37(c)(7)(E)(i) Looks at the arguable claim, the appeals used, and how convincing the conclusion is.
• 110.37(c)(7)(E)(ii) Looks at the range of evidence and how the writer handles counterarguments through concessions and rebuttals.
• 110.37(c)(7)(E)(iii) Identifies who the intended audience or reader is.
• 110.37(c)(7)(F) Analyzes the features of multimodal and digital texts.

110.37(c)(8) Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.37(c)(8) Uses critical inquiry to analyze an author's choices and their effect on meaning, and uses that craft in own work.
• 110.37(c)(8)(A) Analyzes the author's purpose, audience, and message in a text.
• 110.37(c)(8)(B) Analyzes how the structure of a text serves the author's purpose.
• 110.37(c)(8)(C) Judges how print and graphic features serve particular purposes.
• 110.37(c)(8)(D) Analyzes how the author's language choices shape how readers see a topic.
• 110.37(c)(8)(E) Analyzes literary devices such as irony, sarcasm, and motif and why the author uses them.
• 110.37(c)(8)(F) Analyzes how word choice and sentence structure build mood, voice, and tone.
• 110.37(c)(8)(G) Analyzes rhetorical devices such as appeals, antithesis, parallelism, and shifts, and how logical fallacies affect a text.

110.37(c)(9) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process

• 110.37(c)(9) Uses the writing process again and again to produce legible texts with suitable conventions.
• 110.37(c)(9)(A) Plans for different purposes and audiences by gathering ideas through brainstorming, journaling, reading, or discussion.
• 110.37(c)(9)(B) Writes focused, organized, coherent drafts in timed and untimed situations.
• 110.37(c)(9)(B)(i) Chooses an organizing structure that fits the purpose, audience, topic, and context.
• 110.37(c)(9)(B)(ii) Develops an engaging idea in depth with specific details, examples, and commentary.
• 110.37(c)(9)(C) Revises drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety, including parallel structure and placement of phrases and clauses.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D) Edits drafts to follow standard English conventions.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(i) Writes complete sentences with varied, controlled structure and avoids comma splices, run-ons, and fragments.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(ii) Keeps verb tenses consistent and uses active and passive voice appropriately.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(iii) Makes pronouns agree with their antecedents.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(iv) Uses capital letters correctly.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(v) Uses commas, semicolons, colons, dashes, and parentheses to set off phrases and clauses.
• 110.37(c)(9)(D)(vi) Spells words correctly.
• 110.37(c)(9)(E) Publishes writing for suitable audiences.

110.37(c)(10) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.37(c)(10) Uses genre traits and craft to write meaningful texts.
• 110.37(c)(10)(A) Writes literary texts such as fiction and poetry using genre traits and craft.
• 110.37(c)(10)(B) Writes informational texts such as explanatory essays, reports, and personal essays using genre traits and craft.
• 110.37(c)(10)(C) Writes argumentative texts using genre traits and craft.
• 110.37(c)(10)(D) Writes letters and other correspondence in a professional or friendly format.

110.37(c)(11) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.37(c)(11) Carries out short and sustained inquiry, returning to earlier steps as needed, for different purposes.
• 110.37(c)(11)(A) Writes questions for formal and informal inquiry.
• 110.37(c)(11)(B) Reviews each step of the research process and changes course when needed.
• 110.37(c)(11)(C) Makes and revises a research plan.
• 110.37(c)(11)(D) Changes the main research question when needed to refocus the plan.
• 110.37(c)(11)(E) Finds relevant sources.
• 110.37(c)(11)(F) Pulls together information from a range of sources.
• 110.37(c)(11)(G) Checks sources for reliability and reasoning.
• 110.37(c)(11)(G)(i) Checks credibility and bias, including what has been left out.
• 110.37(c)(11)(G)(ii) Checks for faulty reasoning such as false premises, hasty generalizations, and either-or thinking.
• 110.37(c)(11)(H) Cites paraphrased and quoted material in an academic style and uses sources ethically to avoid plagiarism.
• 110.37(c)(11)(I) Shares results in a suitable written, spoken, or multimodal format.