Grammar:
Parts of Speech
Sentence Structures
Conjunctions
Clauses
PhrasesLiterary Elements:
Analysis of text
Point of View
Purpose
Audience
Tone
Imagery
Composition
Personal Reflection
Descriptive
Literary Focus:
Puritan Writing
Ann Bradstreet
John Smith
William Bradford
Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards
Cotton Mather
Native American Literature
Myths
Cultural Values
Voices of Freedom/Speech
Ben Franklin
Patrick Henry
Declaration of Independence
Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy |
Grammar:
Sentence Structures
Conjunctions
Clauses
Syntax Techniques
Sentence CombiningLiterary Elements:
Analysis of text
Diction
Theme
Effect
Sound Devices
Imagery
Composition
Writing to Achieve
EffectDescriptive
Literary Focus:
Imagination/Romanticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Fireside Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Cullen Bryant
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James Russell Lowell
Major Literary Work
The Scarlet Letter
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Grammar:
Verbals
-gerunds
-infinitives
-participles
Syntax Techniques
Rhetorical AnalysisLiterary Elements:
Characterization
Symbolism
Irony
Metaphor
Personification
Stylistic Analysis
Composition
Literary Analysis
Voice
Tone
Literary Focus:
Women's Voices
Kate Chopin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Eudora Welty
Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
Katherine Anne Porter
Major Literary Work
The Awakening |
Grammar:
Absolute Phrases
Appositives
Agreement
-pronoun./antecedent
-subject/verb
Literary Elements:
Romanticism
Realism
Naturalism
Satire
Connotation
Composition
Dialectical Journal
Literary Criticism
Literary Focus:
Division, Reconciliation, and The Frontier
Frederick Douglass
Paul Dunbar
Stephen Crane
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Ambrose Bierce
Jack London
Major Literary Work
To Kill a Mocking Bird
or
Red Badge of Courage |
Grammar:
Usage and Mechanics
EtymologyLiterary Elements:
Rhetorical Shift
Sound Devices
Allusion
Composition:
Research Writing
Evaluation of Sources
Use of Technology
Editing/Revising
Literary Focus:
Multi-Cultural Voices
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Alice Walker
Sandra Cisneros
Rita Dove
Amy Tan
Zora Neale Hurston
Rudolpho Anaya
Major Literary Work
Student Choice for Research Paper |
Grammar:
Usage and MechanicsLiterary Elements:
Universal Themes
Anti-hero
Composition:
Persuasion
Appeals
Literary Focus:
Modernism
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Major Literary Work
Of Mice and Men
or
The Great Gatsby |