English Department – English II 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.

(Semester 2) Students will demonstrate skills in comprehension, interpretation, and analysis through the reading of  novels, nonfiction, and drama.

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) symbolism, climax, flashback, mood, tone, diction, syntax, detail, imagery, organization, rhetorical purpose, genre, antithesis, foreshadowing, pun, soliloquy, blank verse, alliteration, connotations, dramatic structure, didactic, point-of-view

(Semester two) AP terms, extended metaphor, figurative language, hyperbole, meter, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, allusion, metonymy, ethos, pathos, logos

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

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

Performance Task Summary

Rubric Titles

   

Self-Assessments

Other Evidence, Summarized

     

 

Stage 3: Learning Activities

(See sample pacing guide for A Tale of Two Cities)


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Last updated: January 24, 2008