TEACHER ELEMENTS

STUDENT ELEMENTS

GRADE 12

GRADE 12

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 the chronological development of British literature.

Recognize major literary forms and techniques, including ode, ballad, elegy, satire, and sonnet.

Recognize characteristics of the major chronological eras.

Relate literary works and authors to major themes and issues of their eras.

Compare and contrast the style of various British authors who are contemporaries.

Compare and contrast the style of various British authors from various periods of history.

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

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

Evaluate the literary selection for 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, multi-step directions.

Work to determine the author's intent without imposing subjective interpretation.

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. Anglo-Saxon -- Early English Period -- works such as Beowulf , "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, riddles.

I. Anglo-Saxon -- Early English Period -- works such as Beowulf , "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , riddles.

II. Early Middle Ages -- works such as The Canterbury Tales, Everyman , ballads.

II. Early Middle Ages -- works such as The Canterbury Tales , Everyman , ballads.

III. Later Middle Ages -- works such as Le Morte D' Arthur , "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; works about the period such as Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction ; modern works about Arthur such as The Once and Future King .

III. Later Middle Ages -- works such as Le Morte D' Arthur , "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; works about the period such as Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction ; modern works about Arthur such as The Once and Future King .

IV. English Renaissance -- works such as pastoral poetry, sonnets, drama, Hamlet , Macbeth , Don Quixote de la Mancha .

IV. English Renaissance -- works such as pastoral poetry, sonnets, drama, Hamlet , Macbeth , Don Quixote de la Mancha.

V. The 17th Century -- such as works from John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, John Milton

V. The 17th Century -- such as works from John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, John Milton

VI. Restoration and the Eighteenth Century -- such as works from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson

VI. Restoration and the Eighteenth Century -- such as works from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson

VII.Pre-Romantic Period -- such as works from Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, William Blake

VII.Pre-Romantic Period -- such as works from Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, William Blake

VIII.Early Romantic Period -- such as works from William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

VIII.Early Romantic Period -- such as works from William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

IX. Late Romantic Period -- such as works from George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen

IX. Late Romantic Period -- such as works from George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen

X. Victorian Period -- works from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte

X. Victorian Period -- works from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte

XI. Modern Period -- such as works from William Butler Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, George Bernard Shaw.

XI. Modern Period -- such as works from William Butler Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, George Bernard Shaw.

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: Anglo-Saxon poetry, carpe diem, begging the question, false analogy, comedy of manners, comic relief, closed couplet, circular reasoning, diary, dramatic monologue, emblematic image, epic convention, epiphany, exposition, kenning, in medias res, metaphysical conceit, metaphysical poetry, metonymy, miracle play, mock epic, morality play, motif, neoclassicism, psalm, Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet sequence.

Define and identify examples of the following terms: Anglo-Saxon poetry, carpe diem, begging the question, false analogy, comedy of manners, comic relief, closed couplet, circular reasoning, diary, dramatic monologue, emblematic image, epic convention, epiphany, exposition, kenning, in medias res, metaphysical conceit, metaphysical poetry, metonymy, miracle play, mock epic, morality play, motif, neoclassicism, psalm, Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet sequence.

INQUIRY, RESEARCH, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

INQUIRY, RESEARCH, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

Utilize previewing techniques of textbooks (e.g., marginal annotations, key terms, graphics, supplemental study helps).

Use strategies for improving encoding, storage, and retrieval from his/her memory.

Evaluate differing viewpoints and generalizations; weigh adequacy of data and evidence.

Recognize persuasive language

Identify biased and slanted writing; evaluate arguments.

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