Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This site from the University of Virginia contains both the literary and artistic works of Pre-Raphaelite painter, poet, and designer Dante Gabriel Rossetti. You will also find scholarly essays, and biographical information.
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Language Arts: Literature

  Curriculum Standard 4

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of literature from various cultures and times, written for a variety of purposes and in a variety of genres such as the classics and contemporary American, British, and world literature, and works by Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners.



• Understand that themes and events in literature often parallel real life.



• Analyze the ways that literature reflects the range of human experience.



• Analyze the ways readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts.



• Identify, analyze, and interpret literary themes and elements.



• Stand apart from a text and consider it objectively by performing a range of tasks including critically evaluating; comparing and contrasting; understanding the impact of the organizational structure; and analyzing the use of such elements as satire, irony, humor, bias, redundancy, symbolism, analogies, metaphors, and poetic license.



• Critically analyze and evaluate texts for their practical, informational, or aesthetic value; for writer's craft; for writer's biases; and for the inherent ability of the work to communicate.