This post is for me–selfishly and purely. It is so when I am digging and combining, synthesizing and churning creative meanderings with standards and structure, I have something to hang my thoughts on. The objective is to marry language and art.
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/8/
Full writing standards: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/