Poetry

High School 1: Concept 1 - Semester 1: Unit 4

Summary of Skills

• Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (Language Arts)
• Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. (Language Arts)
• Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. (Language Arts)
• Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). (Language Arts)
• Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. (Language Arts)
• Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). (Language Arts)
• Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole. (Language Arts)
• Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening. (Language Arts)
• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. (Language Arts)
• Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. (Language Arts)
• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. (Language Arts)
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone). (Language Arts)
• Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. (Language Arts)
• Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. (Language Arts)
• Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. (Language Arts)
• Read a variety of poetry, including the subgenres of narrative poems, lyrical poems, free verse poems, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics. (Language Arts)
• Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently. (Language Arts)
• Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. (Language Arts)
• Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. (Language Arts)