Appendix 1
California English Language Arts Standards met by this unit
Reading
- Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text.
- Analyze characteristics of subgenres (e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other basic genres.
- Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.
- Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author's style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purposes or both.
- Analyze ways in which poets use imagery, personification, figures of speech, and sounds to evoke readers' emotions.
- Analyze recognized works of world literature from a variety of authors.
Writing
- Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples.
- Enhance meaning by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy;
- Use language in natural, fresh, and vivid ways to establish a specific tone.
College Board Course Description for AP English Literature
Writing: Writing instruction includes attention to developing and organizing ideas in clear, coherent and persuasive language. It includes study of the elements of style. And it attends to matters of precision and correctness as necessary.
Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on helping students develop stylistic maturity, which, for AP English, is characterized by the following:
- a wide–ranging vocabulary used with denotative accuracy and connotative resourcefulness;
- a variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordinate and coordinate constructions;
- a logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques of coherence such as repetition, transitions and emphasis.
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