My Perspectives:
Students will learn to:
- Read a variety of texts to gain the knowledge and insight needed to write about British and world literature.
- Expand their knowledge and use of academic and concept vocabulary.
- Conduct research projects of various lengths to explore a topic and clarify its meaning.
- Note differences in language style over time and in various contexts.
- Establish a writing “voice.”
- Correctly use parallelism and verb tenses to convey meaning and enrich your
- writing and presentations
- Collaborate with their team to build on the ideas of others, develop consensus, and communicate.
- Integrate audio, visuals, and text to present information.
Reading Components:
Key Ideas and Details
- Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Craft and Structure
- Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
- Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including
- visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
- 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.
- Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently
- and proficiently.
Writing Component:
- Write an argument that has a clear structure and that draws evidence from texts and original research to support a claim.
- Write an informative essay that has a clear structure and that draws evidence from texts and original research.
- Conduct research projects of various lengths to explore a topic and clarify its meaning.
- Write an explanatory text that develops a topic thoroughly and includes evidence from research.
- Write a personal narrative that establishes a clear point of view and uses a variety of narrative techniques to develop a personal experience.
Literary and Non-Literary Selection
Major Literary Works:
- Antigone by Sophocles
- from Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel
- ‘’The Prologue from the Canterbury Tales’’ by Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Poetry Collection:
- “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars’’ by Richard Lovelace
- ‘’The Charge of the Light Brigade’’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- ‘’Dulce et Decorum Est’’ by Wilfred Owen
- ‘’To His Coy Mistress’’ by Andrew Marvell
- ‘’To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time’’ by Robert Herrick
- ‘’The Second Coming’’ by William Butler Yeats
- ‘’The Lamb’’ by William Blake
- ‘’The Tiger’’ by William Blake
- ‘’The Chimney Sweeper’’ by William Blake
Mock Epic:
- from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Speech:
‘’Speech Before Her Troops’’ by Queen Elizabeth I
Short Story:
- “The Lagoon’’ by Joseph Conrad
- “Araby” by James Joyce
Essay:
‘’Shakespeare’s Sister’’ by Virginia Woolf
Vocabulary Workshop: Sixth Course
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
- Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 12 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Grammar: Sixth Course
- Parts Of Speech Overview
- The Parts of a Sentence: Subjects, Predicates, and Complements
- Kinds of Phrases and their Functions
- The Clause: Independent and Subordinate Clauses
- Agreement: Subject and Verb, Pronoun and Antecedent
- Using Pronouns Correctly: Case Forms of Pronouns
- Using Verbs Correctly: Principal Parts, Tense, Voice, Mood
- Using Modifiers Correctly
- A Glossary of Usage: Common Usage Problems
- Capitalization: Rules of Standard Usage
- Punctuation: End Marks and Commas
- Spelling: Improving your Spelling
- Correcting Common Errors
