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English 11

Duration

10 Months

Prerequisites

None

Requirements

None

Course Summary

English 11 focuses on improving reading and writing skills through various writing styles and analyzing American literature and its movements. Students will evaluate literary works based on techniques, form, and theme.

MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS

By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:


  • Recognize different perspectives of the American identity in literature

  • Analyze the historical and cultural significance of literature from the Revolutionary

period

  • Analyze seminal American texts from the Revolutionary period

  • Identify and examine literary techniques used in romantic literature

  • Identify and examine characteristics of theme and form in early American poetry

  • Analyze the emergence and thematic elements of gothic literature

  • Examine the historical and cultural significance of transcendentalist literature

  • Evaluate the characteristics and common themes of narratives of enslaved people

  • Evaluate the emergence of the realist period and its literature

  • Analyze how authors use complex characters and other literary elements for effect in realist literature

  • Analyze elements of form and theme in nineteenth-century poetry

  • Evaluate naturalist literature and analyze elements of structure and purpose in writing

  • Evaluate how changes in early twentieth-century American society influenced the forms and themes of modernist literature

  • Explore forms and themes of modernist poetry

  • Analyze characteristics of imagist poetry

  • Evaluate the emergence and cultural significance of the Harlem Renaissance movement and explore its literature

  • Identify and analyze elements and conventions of modern American drama

  • Compare and contrast the presentation of a theme or topic across genres to explain how genre shapes a message

  • Evaluate the use of motifs and other literary techniques in postmodernism

  • Examine the emergence and characteristics of Beat poetry

  • Analyze the civil rights movement and its influence on American literature

  • Compare and contrast how a theme or topic is presented in literature from different time periods

  • Explore the development of an "American language," and evaluate the purpose of code switching in various settings

  • Evaluate texts that represent the diversity of American culture

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English 11