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English II
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

English II A

Literature and Logic

• Draw inferences from reading selections.

• Interpret an author's point of view.

• Identify the simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, or personification in a given portion of a poem.

• Select the allusion in a given passage.

• Identify the rhyme scheme and meter within a poem, as well as identify the basic tone and meaning of a poem.

• Identify elements of a plot within a text: setting, character, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,.

• Identify the varying techniques that authors use to reveal character.

• Define a symbol and indentify symbols in literary and media works.

• Identify the three types of irony within text: verbal, situational, dramatic.

Media and Communication

• Select the type of conflict in a work.

Language and Writing

• Select the correct word for the sense of the sentence.

• Practice pronoun/antecedent agreement with intervening elements.

Writing

• Apply basic rules of punctuation to his/her own writing.

• Use a variety of correct sentence structures for effect.

• Demonstrate confidence in using the Tennessee Writing Assessment Rubric while evaluating one's own writing and the writing of others.

• Choose the transitional device that appropriately connects sentences or paragraphs within a writing sample.

English II B

Logic/Literature

• Indentify the author's purpose and style in various passages through drawing conclusions and making inferences from various parts of these passages.

• Indentify the point of view within a passage.

• Identify the theme of a passage by analyzing characterization, plot, setting, point of view, and conflict.

• Ascertain the difference between fact and opinion within a passage.

• Identify persuasive techniques in literature.

• Define and identify symbolism in reading selections.

Language

• Correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences.

• Demonstrate proofreading ability through identification of errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

Writing/Communication/Research

• Summarize and paraphrase a passage, thus demonstrating the knowledge of the difference between significant details and main details within a passage.

• Synthesize information from multiple sources in order to extend ideas showing how the ideas relate to a specific situation.

• Create a well-defined thesis statement.

•  Document research using MLA format on a Works Cited page.

• Practice parenthetical citations in MLA format.

• Draw an inference and infer mood from a non-print medium.

• Consider the treatment of a particular subject or event in two or more media.

• Identify the organizational structure of an informational or technical text.

• Use correct writing process including an introduction with hook, body paragraphs with topic sentences, direct quotations.

• Evaluate and revise writing to focus on purpose, organization, development, transitions, unity, and audience awareness.

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