TEACHER ELEMENTS

STUDENT ELEMENTS

GRADE 11

GRADE 11

THE TEACHER SHALL:

THE STUDENT SHOULD:

REVIEW, RETEACH, AND REASSESS PAST CONCEPTS.

NEW CONCEPTS

NEW CONCEPTS

READING COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY

READING COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY

Assign increasingly demanding texts for a variety of purposes.

Read silently for longer periods of time and demonstrate comprehension through written or oral responses.

Present short stories, novels, and plays; lyric and narrative poetry; essays and journals from American literature.

Analyze plot, theme, character, figurative language (e.g., allusion, allegory, aside, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, synesthesia), syntax, and tone.

Describe the contributions of the various cultures to American literature.

Describe the development of American literature in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Compare/contrast periods in American literature.

Describe the dramatic conventions or devices used by various playwrights.

Use literary selections from a variety of print materials as models to analyze techniques and then compare/contrast those techniques with similar pieces of literature.

Identify a hypothesis to be confirmed, disproved, or modified.

Evaluate a literary selection's structure. Research the accuracy of information presented by the author.

Synthesize information gathered from a variety of sources and then present that information in written or oral presentations.

Extend general and specialized vocabulary.

Read and follow complex, mullet-step directions.

Follow the true intent of the author and not any subjective imaginations of the reader.

INDEPENDENT READING/ ASSIGNED READING / GUIDED READING

INDEPENDENT READING/ASSIGNED READING/GUIDED READING

Provide opportunities for students to study selections from the following:

Present comprehensive, narrative summary of the following notable literary selections:

I. Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution -- 1607-1800 A. Puritan Culture -- authors such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor

I. Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution -- 1607-1800 A. Puritan Culture -- authors such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor

B. Diarists and Observers -- authors such as William Byrd, St. Jean de Crevecoeur

B. Diarists and Observers -- authors such as William Byrd, St. Jean de Crevecoeur

C. Reason and Revolution -- authors such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

C. Reason and Revolution -- authors such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

II. Literature from 1800-1855

II. Literature from 1800-1855

A. Romantic Rediscovery -- authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant

A. Romantic Rediscovery -- authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant

B. Symbolic and Ethical Idealism -- authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

B. Symbolic and Ethical Idealism -- authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

C. Fireside Poets -- authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier

C. Fireside Poets -- authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier

D. Transcendental Idealism -- authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

D. Transcendental Idealism -- authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

III. Literature from 1855 to 1865 -- Division, War, and Reconciliation -- authors such as Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Daniel Webster

III. Literature from 1855 to 1865 -- Division, War, and Reconciliation -- authors such as Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Daniel Webster

IV. Literature from 1865 to 1915 -- Realism and Naturalism -- authors such as Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Willa Cather, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Jennings Bryan.

IV. Literature from 1865 to 1915 -- Realism and Naturalism -- authors such as Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Willa Cather, Edwin Arlington Robinson, William Jennings Bryan

V. Literature from 1915 to 1946 -- Literary Renaissance and Social Challenge -- authors such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Thornton Wilder, James Weldon Johnson, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway

V. Literature from 1915 to 1946 -- Literary Renaissance and Social Challenge -- authors such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Thornton Wilder, James Weldon Johnson, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway

VI. Literature from 1946 to the present -- Contemporary Literature -- authors such as Arthur Miller, Martin Luther King, Bernard Malamud, Anne Tyler, Larry McMurtry

VI. Literature from 1946 to the present -- Contemporary Literature -- authors such as Arthur Miller, Martin Luther King, Bernard Malamud, Anne Tyler, Larry McMurtry

Read independently books of various genres from accepted fiction and non-fiction lists.

Read regularly in independent-level materials (texts in which no more than 1 in 20 words is difficult for the reader).

Read regularly in instructional-level materials that are challenging but manageable (texts in which no more than 1 in 10 words is difficult for the reader).

Adjust reading rate based on the purposes for reading.

Demonstrate understanding of literature which is read aloud by others.

LITERARY TERMS

LITERARY TERMS

Teach the following terms: allegory, aphorism, argumentation, autobiography, conceit, concrete poem, forms of discourse (expository, narrative, descriptive, persuasive), genre, gothic, Harlem Renaissance, journal, lyric poem, prediction, regionalism, stream of consciousness, subjective, time order, transcendentalism, understatement, vernacular.

Define and identify examples of the following terms: allegory, aphorism, argumentation, autobiography, conceit, concrete poem, forms of discourse (expository, narrative, descriptive, persuasive), genre, gothic, Harlem Renaissance, journal, lyric poem, prediction, regionalism, stream of consciousness, subjective, time order, transcendentalism, understatement, vernacular.

INQUIRY, RESEARCH, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

INQUIRY, RESEARCH, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

Provide multiple opportunities for students to utilize media center.

Locate information on various topics (e.g., American history, American literature, American art and music).

Demonstrate various test-taking techniques (e.g., test-taking reviews, mnemonics, making judgments, discovering relationships, listing information, factual recall, organizing effective essay exams).