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Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This honors program contains highly challenging material for students who have scholarly interest and who have the time and motivation to accept responsibility for extensive outside preparation. This course presumes mastery of basic skills and the ability to read and write complex material; students should be able to do the work without help from tutors or others. The writing will require the formulation of concise hypotheses, the integration of outside resources, and sophisticated vocabulary and sentence construction. Classes operate as seminar discussions that require daily preparation, the ability to infer theories and conclusions, and higher-level abstract thinking. Successful completion of a literary research paper of 2,500-3,000 words on a significant novel is a requirement for honors credit. Extensive outside reading, homework, and preparation are expected. Representative examples of literature include Macbeth, Song of Solomon, Maus, Little Fires Everywhere, and Pride and Prejudice. Although the quantity of reading assigned varies with the difficulty of the work, typical reading is 40-50 pages per night.
Essential Skills:
Reading
Students will be able to read a novel or text for understanding theme, plot, characterization, symbolism, etc. and extrapolate larger commentary.
Students will be able to read passages closely and demonstrate understanding of how the literary devices, stylistic elements, and structure of a text lead to its larger meanings.
Students will be able to read texts through a formalist critical lens that asks them to identify a form, explore its function, and extrapolate its larger implications.
Writing
Students will be able to learn and apply the appropriate discourse of literary analysis to explore a text accurately.
Students will be able to organize an effective logical argument: from thesis to a sequence of cohesive supporting claims that build to a higher realization.
Students will be able to apply modeled skills and techniques to their own writing style.
Critical Thinking
Students will be able to learn and apply the appropriate discourse of literary analysis to explore a text accurately and through an original angle of inquiry.
Students will be able to employ observation-inference-implication thinking.
Speaking & Listening
Students will be able to orally deliver a paper in front of the class with effective volume, pacing, and clarity.
Students will be able to engage with their peers in small group activities and discussions, listening generously and responding appropriately and productively
Students will be able to engage in full-group discussions by actively listening to the teacher and their peers and building off of each other’s ideas.
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