Higher+Learning

  **// Course Description  //**  The **Eleventh Grade Higher Learning Language Arts program** will focus on the literature that resulted from the struggles of mankind, including the early colonists, the Native Americans, the African Americans, and the women who developed our country. The literature will be presented from a historical point of view and will incorporate units of study that will include all genres of literature: essays, narrative, poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction, as well as relevant musical and artistic works.  In this course, emphasis will be placed on extensive reading, writing, and class discussions aimed at developing students' critical thinking and analysis skills as well as their knowledge of our nation's literature. Vocabulary study will be an integral part of each unit. In addition, a vocabulary workbook program will further prepare students for the college entrance Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs). Grammar will be presented on a prescriptive basis as determined by individual and group writing assessments. Lectures given at a "conversational pace" will enhance student's note taking skills in preparation for upcoming college courses. Research and library skills will be utilized in the preparation of a formal literacy based research paper which will follow the updated Modern Language Association (MLA) format and focus son topics selected from the eleventh grade American Literature curriculum.  **// Objectives  //** ** The Learner Will: ** · Read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate six major works (1.1.11.A-E;    1.2.11.A-E; 1.3.11.A-D; 1.7.11; 1.9.11.A)  ·  Read, comprehend, and respond to essential content across all genres  (1.2.11.A, B,C,E; 1.9.11.A,B) · Analyze literary elements and devices (1.3.11.A,B,C,D) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Analyze inferences and conclusions based on and related to an author’s implicit and <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject (1.2.11.D)   <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Use context clues, knowledge of root words, and word origins as well as reference <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> sources to decode and understand new words (1.1.11.B)  <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Apply meaning and knowledge of words and their relationships to other words <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> across content areas (1.1.11.C)   <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Demonstrate an appropriate rate of silent reading based upon <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> specific grade level texts (1.1.11.E)  <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Analyze the role and place of standard American English in speech, <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> writing, and literature (1.7.11) <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;">**// Essential Content  //** <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Explore the following Essential Questions: <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> How does an author’s opinion influence a reader’s interpretation? <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> According to our distinct literary tradition, what does it mean to be American? <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> How does American Literature reflect history, society, and/or culture? <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate Fahrenheit 451, One Flew <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Great Gatsby, and The Things They Carried <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Compare short fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction to major works as they <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> relate to theme and/or context <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Identify and analyze: personification, simile, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> hyperbole, imagery, satire, foreshadowing, flashback, irony, allegory, <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> characterization, plot, theme, point of view, tone, mood, and style <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Address 20-30 vocabulary words within context of major literary works <span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Provide time for sustained silent reading and/or explicit literacy instruction <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">