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Gr 11 6 | Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 11 6 | Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This college preparatory program focuses on improving language and reasoning skills. Assignments include reading, vocabulary building, analytical and creative writing, and public speaking. Exercises reinforce learning and emphasize clarity in writing. Outside reading, homework, and preparation are expected. Representative examples of literature include Art Spiegelman’s Macbeth, Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls, Dale Wasserman’s play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, various poems, and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Although the quantity of reading assigned varies with the difficulty of the work, an average reading assignment consists of 20-25 pages per night.
Essential Skills:
Reading
Students will be able to read the text and pull out the salient details.
Students will be able to understand how the author’s stylistic choices create or underscore meaning in the text.
Students will be able to read aloud, using intonation to imbue the text with meaning.
Students will be able to write sophisticated Socratic seminar questions that allow their peers to synthesize their knowledge of the text with their previous reading and experiences.
Writing
Students will be able to write a sophisticated analytical essay:
Specific, arguable thesis
Topic sentences that link to the thesis
Quotations introduced with proper context and signal phrase
Quotations analyzed using specific, word-level analysis
Higher realizations
Conclusion that adds a new idea
Review sentence combining
Review apostrophes
Review MLA formatting
Students will be able to write a sophisticated narrative essay.
Tells a story with a full beginning, middle, and end
Implied theme
Use of concrete, specific details
Use of sensory imagery
Review sentence combining
Review apostrophes
Students will be able to write a college/transitional essay
Use of a motif
Understands audience and purpose
Speaking & Listening
Students will be able to share their ideas and consider the ideas of others in a Socratic seminar
Students will be able to balance asking and answering questions with listening to their peers without interrupting.
Students will be able to invite quieter students to participate in the seminar.
Students will be able to share their ideas and consider the ideas of others in the welcome and classroom discussion.
Students will be able to answer in class welcome questions using specific details.
Students will be able to answer in class discussion questions using examples and quotations from the text.
Students will be able to connect their ideas to their peers’ ideas, crediting their peers by name.
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