English 11

• 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