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Guided Tour of Advanced Language & Literature
1 Making Meaning
Knowing Yourself
Knowing Others
Making Connections, Asking Questions, and Annotating Texts
A Model Annotation: Making Connections, Asking Questions
Reading for Understanding, Interpretation, and Style
Reading for Understanding
Reading for Interpretation
Reading for Style
A Model Analysis: Making Meaning
Considering Context
Culminating Activity
2 Understanding Literature
Thinking Abstractly about Literature
Theme in Literature
Interpreting Theme
Elements of Fiction
Point of View
Characterization
Plot and Conflict
Setting
Symbolism
A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Fiction to Theme
Speaking & Listening Focus--Discussing Interpretations of Literature
Elements of Drama
Plot
Character
Setting
Symbolism
Elements of Poetry
Making Meaning – Looking for Shifts
Speaker
Structure
Sound
A Model Analysis: Connecting Elements of Poetry to Theme
Language and Style
Diction
Syntax
Figurative Language
Imagery
Analyzing Style and Tone
A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Tone
Analyzing Style and Theme
A Model Analysis: Connecting Style to Theme
Culminating Activity
3 Understanding Rhetoric and Argument
Changing Minds, Changing the World
Arguable Claims
The Rhetorical Situation of an Argument
Using Evidence
Personal Experience and Anecdotes
Facts and Data/Statistics
Scholarly Research and Expert Opinion
Detecting Bias
Rhetorical Appeals
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Counterarguments
Speaking & Listening Focus — Differences of Opinion
Logical Fallacies
Interpreting an Argument
Interpreting Visual Arguments
Images as Rhetoric
Language and Style in an Argument
Connotative Language
Figurative Language
Parallel Structure
Rhetorical Questions
A Model Analysis: Connecting Content and Style
Culminating Activity
4 Understanding Inquiry and Evidence-Based Argument
The Process of Inquiry
Identify and Focus
Investigate and Analyze
Approaching a Source
Examining Sources
Draw Connections
Considering Sources in Conversation
Speaking and Listening Focus - Considering Sources in Conversation
Researching Additional Sources
Integrate and Present
Using Commentary
Using Visuals as Evidence
Integrating Counterarguments
Citing Sources and Using Quotations
Reflecting on the Inquiry Process
Culminating Activity
5 Changing the World (nonfiction)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Personal Experience in Argument
Malala Yousafzai, Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly
Section 1
Bill Bystricky, When 16-Year-Olds Vote, We All Benefit
David Hogg, The Road to Change
Amber Tamblyn, Im Not Ready for the Redemption of Men
Section 2
Denise Cummins, How to Get People to Change Their Minds
Michelle Alexander, What if Were All Coming Back?
Dolores Huerta, from Speech at UCLA
Central Text DeRay Mckesson, Bully and the Pulpit
Section 3
Nelson Mandela, from An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have Been to the Mountaintop
Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
Exploring Other Genres
Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors (fiction)
Writing Workshop – Using Personal Experience in an Argument
Continuing the Conversation – Changing the World
6 Self-Discovery (literature)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Character and Theme in Prose
Judith Cofer, Abuela Invents the Zero
Gathering Textual Evidence
Activity – Gathering Textual Evidence
Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence
Activity – Organizing and Analyzing Textual Evidence
Analyzing Characterization
Activity – Writing a Character Analysis
Connecting Characterization and Theme
Culminating Activity
Section 1
Faith Erin Hicks, from Friends with Boys
Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Kristen Iskandrian, Good with Boys
Section 2
Billy Collins, On Turning Ten
Amy Silverberg, Suburbia!
William Shakespeare, The Seven Ages of Man
Central Text Amy Tan, Rules of the Game
Section 3
Oliver De La Paz, In Defense of Small Towns
Lesley Nneka Arimah, Glory
James Joyce, Eveline
Exploring Other Genres
Trevor Noah, from Born a Crime (nonfiction)
Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Character and Theme
Continuing the Conversation – Self-Discovery
7 The Individual in School (nonfiction)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Rhetorical Situation
Adam Grant, What Straight-A Students Get Wrong
Section 1
Peter Gray, from Children Educate Themselves: Lessons from Sudbury Valley
Dyan Watson, A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son
Mindy Kaling, Dont Peak in High School
Section 2
Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Alexandra Robbins, from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Zitkala-Ša, from School Days of an Indian Girl
Central Text John Taylor Gatto, Against School
Section 3
Rebecca Solnit, Abolish High School
Yuval Noah Harari, Education: Change Is the Only Constant
Albert Einstein, from On Education
Exploring Other Genres
Lisa Parker, Snapping Beans (poetry)
Writing Workshop – Writing a Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Continuing the Conversation – The Individual in School
8 Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections (literature)
Skill Workshop – Understanding a Poem’s Speaker and Meaning
Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York
Section 1
Sandra Cisneros, No Speak English
Amit Majmudar, Dothead
Margarita Engle, Unnatural
Section 2
Tahira Naqvi, Paths Upon Water
Franny Choi, Choi Jeong Min
Richard Blanco, My Father in English
Central Text Eavan Boland, An Irish Childhood in England: 1951
Section 3
Ha Jin, Children as Enemies
Natasha Trethewey, Enlightenment
Li-Young Lee, For a New Citizen of These United States
Exploring Other Genres
Viet Thanh Nguyen, America, Say My Name (nonfiction)
Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of a Poem’s Speaker
Continuing the Conversation – Cultures, Conflicts, and Connections
9 Our Robotic Future (nonfiction)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Evidence in Argument
Lela London, This Is What The Future Of Robots Might Do To Humanity
Section 1
Evan Selinger and Woodrow Hartzog, The Dangers of Trusting Robots
Arthur House, The Real Cyborgs
Alex Williams, Will Robots Take our Childrens Jobs?
Section 2
Federico Guerrini, By Giving Robots Personhood Status, Humanity Risks to Be Demoted to the Rank of a Machine
Kevin Kelly, from Better Than Human
Rosa Brooks, In Defense of Killer Robots
Central Text Sherry Turkle, Why These Friendly Robots Can’t Be Good Friends to Our Kids
Section 3
Francis Fukuyama, Transhumanism
Stephen Hawking, Will AI Outsmart Us?
Kate Darling, Extending Legal Protections to Social Robots
Exploring Other Genres
Ken Liu, The Perfect Match (fiction)
Writing Workshop – Writing an Evidence-Based Argument
Continuing the Conversation – Our Robotic Future
10 Utopia/Dystopia (literature)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Meaning in Prose
Cory Doctorow, Printcrime
Section 1
Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton, from Fahrenheit 451
N.K. Jemisin, Valedictorian
Naomi Shihab Nye, World of the Future, We Thirsted
Section 2
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Nnedi Okorafor, Spider the Artist
Joy Harjo, Once the World Was Perfect
Central Text Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
Section 3
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, The Era
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Herland
Exploring Other Genres
Rutger Bregman, from Utopia for Realists (nonfiction)
Writing Workshop – Writing a Close Analysis of Prose
Continuing the Conversation – Utopia/Dystopia
11 Do the Right Thing (nonfiction)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Style and Tone in Argument
Jose Antonio Vargas, What America Looks Like from a Jail in South Texas
Section 1
Toni Morrison, The Work You Do, the Person You Are
Laura Hercher, Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.
Marie Colvin, Truth at All Costs
Section 2
Monica Hesse, The Case of the Photoshopped CEOs
Michael J. Sandel, Are We All in This Together?
Chuck Klosterman, Why We Look the Other Way
Central Text Jamaica Kincaid, from A Small Place
Section 3
David Callahan, from The Cheating Culture
Sam Harris, from Lying
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Exploring Other Genres
William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark (poetry)
Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Tone
Continuing the Conversation – Do the Right Thing
12 Power (literature)
Skill Workshop – Understanding Figurative Language and Meaning in Poetry
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94 and Sonnet 29
Section 1
W. Haden Blackman and Richard Pace, Ghost
Hernando Tellez, Lather and Nothing Else
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Section 2
Central Text William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Section 3
Emma Donoghue, The Tale of the Kiss
Warsan Shire, Backwards
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Exploring Other Genres
Elena Ferrante, A Power of Our Own (nonfiction)
Writing Workshop – Writing an Analysis of Figurative Language in a Poem
Continuing the Conversation – Power
Revision Workshops
- Effective topic sentences and unified paragraphs
- Effective thesis and essay structure
- Balanced evidence and commentary
- Appropriate evidence and support
- Effective transitions
- Effective syntax
- Effective diction
- Effective introductions and conclusions
Grammar Workshops
A Guide to Grammar Terms
- Passive and Active Voice
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Capitalization Errors
- Comma Splices and Run-Ons
- Subordination and Coordination
- Homophones
- Fragments
- Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
- Parallelism
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Pronoun Reference
- Shifts in Person and Number
- Shifts in Verb Tense
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Nonstandard Verb Forms
Vocabulary and Word Roots
Guide to MLA Documentation Style
Glossary/Glosario
Credits
Index
