LITERATURE: British lit survey
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Anglo-Saxon through Middle English
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Epic, epic hero, tone, foreshadowing, alliteration, caesura, assonance, consonance
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Compare / contrast on charts Beowulf with example of more modern fictional hero, using definitions / explanations in video “The Epic Hero.”
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ALL LITERATURE STUDY REQUIRES THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:
Reading: The student expands vocabulary.
Benchmark 3: The students expands his vocabulary.
4. ▲ identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, analogies, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, imagery, and symbolism.
5. discriminates between connotative and denotative meanings and interprets the connotative power of words.
Benchmark 4: The student comprehends a variety of texts
2. ▲ understands the purpose of text features (e.g., title, graphs/charts and maps, table of contents, pictures/illustrations, boldface type, italics, glossary, index, headings, subheadings, topic and summary sentences, captions, sidebars, underlining,
numbered or bulleted lists, footnotes, annotations) and uses such features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts.
3. uses prior knowledge, content, and text type features to make, to
revise, and to confirm predictions.
4. generates and responds logically to literal, inferential, evaluative, synthesizing, and critical thinking questions before, during, and after reading the text.
5. ▲ uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions
6. ▲ analyzes and evaluates how authors use text structure (e.g., sequence, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, description, cause-effect) to help achieve their purposes
7. ▲ compares and contrasts varying aspects (e.g., characters' traits and motives, themes, problem-solution, cause-effect relationships, ideas and concepts, procedures, viewpoints, authors' purposes, persuasive techniques, use of literary devices, thoroughness of
supporting evidence) in one or more appropriate-level texts.
8. ▲ explains and analyzes cause-effect relationships in appropriate level narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
9. ▲ uses paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize information (stated and implied main ideas, main events, important details, underlying meaning) from appropriate-level narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts in logical or sequential order, clearly preserving the author's intent.
10. ▲ identifies the topic, main idea(s), supporting details, and theme(s) in text across the content areas and from a variety of sources in appropriate-level texts.
11. ▲ analyzes and evaluates how an author’s style (e.g., word choice, sentence structure) and use of literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashback, irony, symbolism, tone, mood, satire, imagery, point of view, allusion, overstatement, paradox) work together to achieve his or her purpose for writing text.
14. ▲ identifies the author's position in a persuasive text, describes techniques the author uses to support that position (e.g., bandwagon approach, glittering generalities, testimonials, citing authority, statistics, other techniques that appeal to reason or emotion), and evaluates the effectiveness of these techniques and the credibility of the information provided.
Literature: The student responds to a variety of text.
Benchmark 1: The student uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
1. ▲ identifies and describes different types of characters (e.g., protagonist, antagonist, round, flat, static, dynamic) and analyzes the development of characters.
2. ▲ analyzes the historical, social, and cultural contextual aspects of the setting and their influence on characters and events in the story or literary text.
3. ▲ analyzes and evaluates how the author uses various plot elements (e.g., problem or conflict, climax, resolution, rising action, falling action, subplots, parallel episodes) to advance the plot and make connections between events.
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analyzes themes, tone, and the author’s point-of-view across a variety of literary works and genres using textual evidence and considering audience and purpose.
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identifies, analyzes, and evaluates the use of literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashback, irony, figurative language, imagery, symbolism, satire, allusion, paradox, dialogue, point of view, overstatement) in a text.
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Benchmark 2: The student understands the significance of literature and its contributions to various cultures.
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recognizes ways that literature from different cultures presents similar themes differently across genres.
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compares and contrasts works of literature that deal with similar topics and problems.
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evaluates distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through a variety of texts.
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