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Language Arts: Literature

  Curriculum Standard 4

Students will demonstrate competence in understanding, appreciating, interpreting, and critically analyzing classical and contemporary American and British literature as well as literary works translated into English.

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.