Poetry: Sound and sense

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 3: The learner will demonstrate increasing sophistication in defining issues and using argument effectively.
  • Objective 3.02: Select an issue or theme and take a stance on that issue by:
    - reflecting the viewpoint(s) of Americans of different times and places.
    - showing sensitivity or empathy for the culture represented.
    - supporting the argument with specific reasons.
• 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 5.01: Interpret the significance of literary movements as they have evolved through the literature of the United States by:
    - analyzing the characteristics of literary genres, including fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, and how the selection of genre shapes meaning.
    - relating ideas, styles, and themes within literary movements of the United States.
    - understanding influences that progress through the literary movements of the United States.
    -evaluating the literary merit and/or historical significance of a work from Colonial Literature, the Romantic Era, Realism, the Modern Era, and Contemporary Literature.
  • 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.

Grade 11 — Advanced Placement English Language

• Goal 1: The learner will react to a variety of texts and media by drawing upon personal experiences, readings and observations.
  • Objective 1.01: Draw upon personal experiences, readings and observations by:
    • demonstrating an understanding of the differences between personal and objective responses to text.
    • investigating connections between life and literature.
  • Objective 1.02: Respond to a variety of texts and media by:
    • defending, qualifying, or refuting the author's position to create a variety of formal and informal responses (e.g. journals, in-class writings, letters, memoirs, parodies).
    • projecting his/her voice in reflective writing.
• Goal 5: The learner will develop a deeper understanding of representative literature with a specific emphasis on non-fiction.
  • Objective 5.01: Explore texts by:
    • making connections between text and personal experience.
    • making connections and extending comparisons between features of different pieces of print and non-print text (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, film).
  • Objective 5.02: Analyze the author's rhetorical strategies and linguistic choices by:
    • understanding the author's intent.
    • recognizing the author's rhetorical style.
    • identifying the author's audience.
    • evaluating the effectiveness of such choices.
• Goal 6: The learner will demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English and exhibit stylistic maturity.
  • Objective 6.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the conventions of language by:
    • employing appropriate grammar and mechanics.
    • revising writing to enhance voice and style, sentence variety, subtlety of meaning, and tone in consideration of questions being addressed, purpose, audience, and genres.
  • Objective 6.02: Exhibit stylistic maturity by:
    • using an effective writing process.
    • utilizing a variety of sentence structures.
    • incorporating clear transitions.
    • developing and appropriately using a wide-ranging vocabulary.
    • controlling rhetorical devices effectively, including tone, voice, and diction.