Style: Translating stylistic choices from Hawthorne to Hemingway and back again

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 11

• Goal 1: The learner will demonstrate increasing insight and reflection to print and non-print text through personal expression.
  • Objective 1.02: Reflect and respond expressively to texts so that the audience will:
    - discover multiple perspectives.
    - investigate connections between life and literature.
    - explore how the student's life experiences influence his or her response to the selection.
    - recognize how the responses of others may be different.
    - articulate insightful connections between life and literature.
    -consider cultural or historical significance.
• Goal 4: The learner will critically analyze text to gain meaning, develop thematic connections, and synthesize ideas.
  • Objective 4.01: Interpret meaning for an audience by:
    - examining the functions and the effects of narrative strategies such as plot, conflict, suspense, point of view, characterization, and dialogue.
    - interpreting the effect of figures of speech (e.g., personification, oxymoron) and the effect of devices of sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia).
    - analyzing stylistic features such as word choice and links between sense and sound.
    - identifying ambiguity, contradiction, irony, parody, and satire.
    - demonstrating how literary works reflect the culture that shaped them.
  • Objective 4.02: Develop thematic connections among literary works by:
    - connecting themes that occur across genres or works from different time periods.
    - using specific references to validate connections.
    -examining how representative elements such as mood, tone, and style impact the development of a theme.
• Goal 5: The learner will interpret and evaluate representative texts to deepen understanding of literature of the United States.
  • Objective 5.02: Analyze the relationships among United States authors and their works by:
    - making and supporting valid responses about the text through references to other works and authors.
    -comparing texts to show similarities or differences in themes, characters, or ideas.
• Goal 6: The learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage.
  • Objective 6.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of language by:
    - decoding vocabulary using knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin bases and affixes.
    - discerning the relationship of word meanings between pairs of words in analogies (synonyms/antonyms, connotation/denotation).
    - revising writing to enhance voice and style, sentence variety, subtlety of meaning, and tone in considerations of questions being addressed, purpose, audience, and genres.
    - contrasting use of language conventions of authors in different time periods of United States literature.
    -analyzing the power of standard usage over nonstandard usage in formal settings such a job interviews, academic environment, or public speaking events.
  • Objective 6.02: Discern and correct errors in speaking and writing at a level appropriate to eleventh grade by:
    - reviewing and refining purposeful use of varying sentence types with correct punctuation.
    - reviewing and refining correct pronoun usage, antecedents, and case.
    - refining subject/verb agreement and choice of tense.
    - extending effective use of phrases and clauses. - discussing parts of speech as they relate to writing.
    -editing for correct spelling and mechanics.