Reading Objectives

Students will engage in daily, meaningful reading tasks in English class and/or at home.  The tasks will be based upon the following objectives:

1.   Students will be able to use strategies before, during, and after reading to aid in the construction and enhancement of meaning

2.   Students will be able to respond in discussions and in writing, using personal, literal, interpretative, and evaluative stances, to works of fiction and/or non-fiction.

3.   Students will be able to identify and explain the function of essential short story elements in the writer’s craft (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, point of view).

4.   Students will be able to identify types of drama (i.e. comedy, tragedy) and to explain the function of essential dramatic elements and/or devices in the writer’s craft (i.e. soliloquy, dialogue, aside, act, scene, stage cues).

5.   Students will be able to identify and explain the significance of the essential literary elements of novels (i.e. character, setting, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, theme, tone, and point of view)

6.   Students will be able to identify and explain the significance of the essential elements of the writer’s craft in given poems (i.e. poetic structures such as the lyric, the sonnet, the free verse form; sound devices such as rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration; imagery including the visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile word images that are created; figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism).

    

7.   Students will be able to participate in discussions and draft writing which demonstrates an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives.

8.   Students will be able to participate in discussions and draft writing which demonstrates an understanding of personalities, trends, and beliefs that have shaped American history and culture.

9.   Students will be able to demonstrate literal and inferential comprehension of works of non-fiction (i.e. newspaper and magazine articles) through participation in discussion and writing activities.

10. Students will be able to compare and contrast, in writing and through discussion, the literary elements and essential concepts of the works they are presently reading with those they have previously read or viewed.

11. Students will be able to explore, discuss, write about a similar topic or theme in two distinct disciplines (i.e. the hero in literature and the hero in history)

12. Students will be able to read and explore for enrichment works from various genre (novels, plays, poems, essays).

13. Students will be able to effectively access resources in the library/media center to complete at least one of the above objectives.

Other Options : 

Speaking and Listening Objectives 
Writing Objectives

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