English Department – English
Literary Terms & Concepts

Standard(s):   1.A.5a     1.A.5b     3.C.5a

Stage 1: Desired Results

Understandings

(Semester 1)  Students will apply skills of comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of British literature from the fifth century through the Renaissance.

(Semester 2)  Students will apply skills of comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of British literature from the Renaissance through the Twentieth Century.

Essential Questions

Knowledge & Skill

(Semester 1) How does  the use of literary devices further develop character, style, tone, and theme?

(Semester 2) How will knowing definitions and applications of literary terms affect a student's skill level?

recognition and application of skills learned throughout three years of English plus heroic epic, digression, kennings, caesura, canto, elegaic, iambic tetrameter, collective memory, juxtaposition, couplet, vernacular, framing device, courtly love, mock-heroic epic, tragic flaw, comic relief, sonnet, political pamphlet form, romanticism, nobel savage, distopia/reverse utopia, ignoble savage

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

reading passages, unit tests, (both objective and essay), timed writings, collaborative projects, subsearching texts, formal discussions (Socratic Seminars), use of critical articles to assess author's points, themes; literary analysis research paper

Performance Task Summary

Rubric Titles

   

Self-Assessments

Other Evidence, Summarized

     

 

Stage 3: Learning Activities

See sample pacing guide for Frankenstein.


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