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

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

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

You will learn how to write a topic proposal that addresses your topic, purpose, and audience.

You will learn how to look at introductory material, headings, and other subdivisions to gain an understanding and an overview of the text’s organization.

You will learn how to write a thesis statement that explains your position about a topic.

You will learn how to organize your essay with relevant evidence that supports your thesis.

You will practice checking for proper voice, tense, and syntax.

You will learn how to annotate or mark a text as you read and re-read to gain deeper understanding of the text.

You will learn how to cite your sources in the body of your research paper and write a works cited page according to the Modern Language Association (MLA) style manual.

You will be able to distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning.

You will be able to recognize and explain the purpose of understatement and overstatement in a text.

You will be able to evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.

You will read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

You will be able to recognize how literary devices such as character foils can create complex characters in a short story.

You will be able to recognize linguistic roots and affixes to use in determining the meanings of academic English words and in other content areas.

You will use your knowledge of cognates from other languages to help you understand unfamiliar words.

You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.

You will be able to explain why literary essays include personal opinions and facts to describe an event or situation.

You will learn how to summarize a text in contrast to writing a critique that takes a position.