English Department – English I Honors
Literary Terms & Concepts

Standard(s):   2.A.4a       2.A.4b       2.A.4c       2.B.4b      3.B.4a

Stage 1: Desired Results

Understandings

(Semester 1) Students will demonstrate skills in comprehension, interpretation, and analysis through the reading of various genres of literature - short stories, novels, and drama.

(Semester 2) Students will reinforce skills in comprehension, interpretation, and analysis through the reading of poetry, plays, novels, selected nonfiction, and biography.

Essential Questions

Knowledge & Skill

(Semester 1) What do literary terms and concepts add to a piece of literature in terms of tone, character, style, and theme?

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

(Semester one) structure, flashback, inference, foreshadow, theme, symbol, point-of-view, five methods of characterization, dynamic vs. static, allusion, motif, prologue Greek tragedy/drama, conflict, chorus

(Semetser two) fable, allegory, satire, irony (3), dystopia, propaganda, main idea, rhetorical purpose, imagery, simile, metaphor, pun, aside, iambic pentameter, foil, soliloquy

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

reading passages, unit tests (both objective and essay), timed writings, collaborative projects, subsearching texts, formal discussions

Performance Task Summary

Rubric Titles

   

Self-Assessments

Other Evidence, Summarized

     

final exam (Abacus), exam essay, timed writings

Stage 3: Learning Activities

See sample pacing guide for To Kill A Mockingbird.


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Last updated: January 24, 2008