English 12-1

Today's Quiz

"Summer" Reading Requirements

All students read:

• The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

Choose one:

• Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
• Notes From Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Trial, by Franz Kafka

Central Ideas Slideshow from the first class:

 http://www.box.net/shared/xft6pjpytp

Enduring Understandings

For a detailed description of the legion of standards, goals, requirements, benchmarks, rubrics, expectations, and data-driven outcomes to which this course conforms or aspires to conform, refer to the syllabi posted in another part of this wiki. For something more human friendly and useful, see below.

By the time this course is over, you should be able to...

• read closely by analyzing a text's tone, structure, diction, and imagery
• read closely by analyzing connotations and layers of meaning
• analyze metpahors in terms of microcsm/macrocosm
• recognize irony-- verbal, situational, and dramatic-- and paradox
• understand characters in terms of internal conflict
• understand poetry in terms of its tone and structure
• evaluate an argument and write one on your own

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