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Content/Performance Standards Addressed

Benchmark for Student  Achievement

Students will be able to:

Assessments

1

Major Understanding Concepts

Style analysis: focus on tone, diction, and detail

Anchor Works include:  Short Story Unit-Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne Essays by:  Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglas, Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, George Orwell, William Styron

incorporate rhetorical devices into their own writing after they have been introduced to the basics of close reading and stylistic writing

Stylistic essay writing, assorted writing exercises, vocabulary tests, Close reading exercises, multiple choice exercises, newspaper columnists

2

Style analysis: focus on point of view, organization and syntax

Anchor Works include:  Billy Budd – Herman Melville, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson,

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Essays by:  Julia Alvarez, Jane Austen, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, Annie Dillard, W.E.B. DuBois, Loren Eisley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cristina Garcia, Ernest Hemingway, Jamaica  Kincaid, Martin Luther King, Jr., Flannery O’Connor, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Richard Rodriguez, Henry David Thoreau, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, William Carlos Williams

read complex material, annotate for author’s use of rhetorical devices, and write rich and thoughtful responses

Double entry journals, vocabulary tests, Close Reading exercises, interrupted reading exercises, quizzes-grammar /literary devices, multiple choice exercises, newspaper columnists

3

Focus on argument, logical fallacies, persuasion

Anchor Works Include:  Black Boy-Richard Wright, Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston, Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton,

The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Essays by:   Russell Baker, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Peter Elbow, Toni Morrison, Benjamin Franklin, Nat Hentoff, Linda Hogan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ring Lardner, George Orwell, Camille Paglia, Richard  Preston, Socrates, Jonathan Swift, George Will, Virginia Woolf

incorporate close reading skills, their understanding of rhetorical devices, and the basics of argument into rich and thoughtful written responses

Written argument, argument annotation, vocabulary tests, Close Reading exercises, interrupted reading exercises, quizzes-grammar/literary devices, multiple choice exercises, newspaper columnists

4

Regents Review

employ rhetorical devices, close reading techniques, and stylistic and argument strategies to reach mastery on their final assessment:  The English Regents

Tasks 1-4 of Regents Exam