Learning+Goals+AP+English

= = = Essential Understandings = toc These are key skills we will address throughout the year. The numbers in parenthesis reference a particular student learning expectation (SLE) from the Arkansas English Language Arts frameworks for grade 11.

= **Reading** = =
 * **Read a wide range of print and non-print texts,** including literature from many periods and genres, to build an understanding of the human experience.
 * Analyze **style and diction** to determine **author’s purpose** (R.9.11.2)
 * Analyze how works of a given period reflect author’s background, historical events, and cultural influences
 * **Apply a wide range of reading strategies** to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts. (R.9.11.4)
 * Explain the use of appropriate **strategies to support active reading** and engagement (R.9.11.3)
 * **Draw inferences** from a complete selection (including conclusions, generalizations, and predictions) and support them with text evidence (R.9.11.5
 * **Summarize, paraphrase, and critique** complex structures in informational and literary texts, including relationships among concepts, details, and visual components (R.9.11.6)

Writing = =
 * **Employ a wide range of writing strategies** and different process elements to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
 * Apply appropriate **pre-writing strategies** to address purpose and audience with emphasis on exposition.
 * Write **clear and varied sentences** (W.4.11.3)
 * **Adapt content vocabulary**, voice, and tone to audience, purpose, and situation (W.4.11.5)
 * Use precise **word choices** that convey specific meaning (W.7.11.7)
 * **Elaborate ideas** clearly and accurately through word choice, vivid description, and selected information (W.4.11.4)
 * **Arrange paragraphs** into a logical progression with appropriate transition (W.4.11.6)
 * Demonstrate **organization, unity, and coherence** by using implied transitions and sequencing W.7.11.4)
 * **Use available technology** for all aspects of the writing process (W.4.11.15)
 * **Write across the curriculum** (W.5.11.9)
 * **Revise content** of writing for central idea, elaboration, unity, and organization (W.4.11.7)
 * **Revise style** of writing for selected vocabulary, selected information, sentence variety, tone, and voice (W.4.11.8)
 * **Revise sentence formation** in writing for completeness, coordination, subordination, standard word order, and absence of fused sentences (W.4.11.9)
 * **Evaluate** how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre have been addressed (W.4.11.10)
 * Refine selected pieces frequently to publish for intended audiences and purposes (W.4.11.13)
 * Apply **grammatical conventions** to edit for standard inflections, agreement, word meaning, and conventions (W.4.11.11)
 * Apply conventional **spelling** to all pieces (W.6.11.3)
 * Apply the **punctuation** rules appropriately in writing (W.6.11.5)
 * Apply **usage** rules appropriately in all formal writing
 * -subject-verb agreement
 * -pronoun agreement
 * -misplaced modifiers
 * -active and passive voice
 * -indicative and subjunctive mood (W.6.11.2)
 * Maintain a **writing portfolio** that exhibits growth and reflection in the progress of meeting goals and expectations (W.4.11.14)
 * **Apply knowledge of language** structure, language conventions, media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print texts. (W.4.11.1)
 * **Use technology to research:** Use a variety of technological and informational resources to gather, evaluate, and synthesize data and to create and communicate knowledge.
 * **Expand vocabulary**.
 * Analyze roots and word parts to draw inferences about meaning (R.11.11.2)
 * Recognize and apply specialized vocabulary (R.11.11.1)
 * Use reference materials including glossary, dictionary, thesaurus, and available technology to determine precise meaning and uses of words (R.11.11.3)
 * Analyze the connotative power of words (R.11.11.4)

Listening & Speaking = = **
 * Demonstrate **critical, empathetic, and reflective listening** to interpret, respond to, and evaluate speakers' messages (OV.2.11.1)
 * **Critique** oral communications for clarity, faulty reasoning, relevance, organization of evidence, and effectiveness of delivery (OV.2.11.4)
 * Demonstrate **critical listening skills** and **productive participation** in self-directed work teams for a particular purpose to include
 * -maintaining independent judgment
 * -defining individuals' roles and responsibilities in setting clear goals
 * -acknowledging the ideas and contributions of individuals in the group
 * -understanding the purpose for the team project and the ground rules for decision making
 * -selecting leader/spokesperson when necessary (OV.2.11.5)

Target Skills for First Quarter** =
 * Analyzing ** narrative writing **
 * Analyze **point of view** and its influence on elements of the text (i.e., tone, theme, and purpose) (R.9.11.8)
 * Analyze and compare the author’s use of **figures of speech** and **sound devices** (R.9.11.11)
 * **Read a variety of literary and content prose** including selections from American, British, and/or world literature (R.10.11.18)
 * Use li**terary terms to critique** a work (R.10.11.21)
 * Analyze literary elements such as **setting, plot, theme, characterization, and narration** in a work (R.10.11.23)
 * Analyze the impact of **irony** on a text (R.10.11.24)
 * ** Explore poetry. **
 * Read lots of poems!
 * Analyze **traditional and contemporary** works of poets **from many cultures** (R.10.11.6)
 * Read a **variety of poetry**, including free verse (R.10.11.3)
 * **Paraphrase and interpret** to find the meaning of selected poems, emphasizing the complete selection (R.10.11.10)
 * Notice how author's construct poems.
 * Analyze and compare the author’s use of **figures of speech** and **sound devices** (R.9.11.11)
 * Analyze an author’s use of **poetic conventions and structures** including line, stanza, imagery, rhythm, rhyme, and sound devices (R.10.11.4)
 * Analyze and compare characteristics of **free verse** (R.10.11.5)
 * Analyze **techniques poets use to evoke emotion** in a reader (R.10.11.8)
 * ** Write about what you read. **
 * **Write responses to literature** that
 * -articulate the significant ideas of literary works
 * -support important ideas and viewpoints
 * -analyze the author’s use of stylistic and literary devices
 * -determine the impact of ambiguities, nuances, and complexities using evidence from the text
 * -analyze conflicts (character dilemmas) as revealed by characters’ motivations and behaviors (W.5.11.7)
 * **Use figurative language** effectively with emphasis on **extended metaphor** and **symbolism** (W.7.11.1)
 * Demonstrate **organization, unity, and coherence** by using implied transitions and sequencing (W.7.11.4)
 * Analyze the **tone** and the elements that shape the tone, particularly **diction**.