You will be able to read and analyze a short story using your knowledge of literary and poetic devices.

You will learn skills necessary for reading and writing to a prompt.

You will learn to find and analyze the main idea and supporting ideas in a variety of texts.

You will be able to identify strategies authors use in order to make their arguments more easily understood.

You will be able to make decisions about an author’s word choice or diction in order to discover the author’s tone(s).

You will learn to use strategies that help you make connections between a text and events that happened in the past, as well as events that are happening now.

You will be able to determine why a character’s dialect may contribute to the meaning of the text.

You will learn strategies to help you determine whether a written argument is logical and/or valid.

In this lesson, you will be able to identify the imagery in a text and evaluate its effectiveness.

In this lesson, you will be able to find the allusions in a text, and discuss the role allusions play in helping you understand the text.

You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text.

You will be able to decide whether an author uses inductive or deductive reasoning in a particular argument.

You will be able to identify and evaluate the author's use of logos, pathos, and ethos in an argument.

You will be able to evaluate the authors’ style and syntax, and evaluate how effective style and syntax are to the overall meaning of the text.

You will be able to determine whether an argument has enough evidence and whether the evidence is credible.

You will be able to identify the irony in a text and evaluate its importance to the meaning of the text.

You will learn how to use strategies to help you summarize texts of different lengths.

You will learn how to look at and evaluate the information given in tables, graphs, and charts.

You will be able to use your knowledge of Greek and Latin affixes to help you discover the meanings of unfamiliar words.

You will be able to use reference guides to help you understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.