February
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Analyze antithesis, epigrams, the characteristics of parody,
verbal irony, diction, and connotations
Investigate both the features and the rhetorical devices of
different policy statements, speeches, debates, or other
public documents and the ways in which authors use those
features and devices
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Understand the characteristics of satire
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Analyze the characteristics of the mock epic
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Evaluate the credibility of information sources, including
how the writer’s motivation affects that credibility
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Analyze and evaluate the author’s use of tone, diction, and
syntax such as anaphora and inversion
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Write on demand to a specified prompt within a given
time frame
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Use extension and multi-level elaboration to develop an
idea emphasizing models from professional writing
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Balance concrete and commentary information within a
piece
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Analyze sound devices in poetry, mood, couplets, internal
and external conflict, and a Petrarchan sonnet
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Revise predictions while reading
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Analyze internal and external conflict within a work
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Evaluate the effect of point of view on elements of text
(e.g. tone, theme, and purpose, etc.)
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Compare and contrast the literary contributions of
various cultures
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Compare realist work
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Evaluate the impact of diction, imagery, style, and
figurative language on tone, mood, and theme using
literary terminology
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Create or analyze a dramatic monologue
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Write an expository essay and a style analysis
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Perform a dramatic monologue
Paraphrase and interpret to find the meaning of selected
poems, emphasizing multiple selections and authors
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Evaluate the significance of literary elements in a work
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Use verbal and/or situational irony in a written proposal
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Compare and contrast epic poems from different time
period
May-June
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Analyze a modern short story
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Discuss satires from different cultures and time periods
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Interpret the connotative power of words
Analyze the limited-third-person point of view, epiphany,
irony, flashback, and figures of speech
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Analyze a writer’s argument
Understand an author’s philosophical beliefs
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Evaluate how well questions of purpose, audience, and
genre have been addressed
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Analyze political points of view on a topic
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Analyze the characteristics of a memoir
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Write for the purpose of persuasion
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Analyze imagery and the narrator
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Use a variety of sentence structures, types, and lengths
for effect in writing
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Analyze poetic devices: symbols, parallelism, theme,
personification, allusion, imagery, alliteration, simile,
apostrophe, synesthesia, metaphor
SCHOOL DISTRICT
April
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March
LITTLE ROCK
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Analyze poetic forms: blank verse, sonnet, ode, meditative
poem, tanka, haiku, ballad
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Evaluate a poet’s claim
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Compare and contrast Chinese poetry with Romantic poetry
Demonstrate holistic understanding of the evolution of
English Literature
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Debate current issues
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Use various poetic devices in writing and paraphrase poetry
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Deliver presentation of personal reflection
Use technology in a group or
individual presentation
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Write using rhetorical strategies with special emphasis on
compare/contrast, argumentation/persuasion,
cause/effect, and classification
Grade Twelve Literacy
Month-by-Month
Curriculum Overview
Revised 2009-2010
Twelfth Grade ~ English IV.
August/September
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October-November
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Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social
influences of a time period
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Evaluate the philosophical, political,
religious, ethical and social influence of the
Anglo-Saxon Period
Analyze the characteristics of ballad
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Demonstrate understanding of ballads
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Analyze the characteristics of situational and verbal irony
Understand, identify and analyze AngloSaxon words and literary terms:
alliteration, caesura, and kennings
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Analyze couplets and the use of rhyme
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Read a variety of poetry including free and formal verse and
narrative and lyric poetry
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Analyze and evaluate how works of a given period reflect
author’s background, historical events, and cultural influences
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Analyze and compare characteristics of formal verse: sonnets,
sestinas, and villanelles
Evaluate the effectiveness of author’s use of poetic
conventions and structures
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Evaluate the author’s use of persona
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Connect own background to recognize and analyze personal bias
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Paraphrase and interpret to find meaning of selected poems
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Evaluate the significance of literary elements in a work
students for success throughout their school career and
Evaluate and select strategies to support active reading
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Summarize and evaluate complex information in reading
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Evaluate the credibility of an author’s argument or defense
beyond. To reach this goal, we know that a strong
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Defend and justify a position from reading
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Compare the influences of different time periods
Analyze and compare characteristics of formal verse
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Understand the characteristics of the frame story
foundation in both literacy and mathematics is most
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Evaluate traditional and contemporary works of poets from many
cultures
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Analyze characterization
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Apply appropriate prewriting strategies
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Evaluate the effectiveness of word choice, tone, and voice
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Paraphrase and interpret to find meaning of poems
Evaluate how well questions of purpose, audience, and genre
have been addressed in writing
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Compare and contrast tragic heroes from various literary eras
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Critique professional and peer writing for consistency of style
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Read a variety of literary and content prose
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Evaluate author’s use of literary devices
Perform all skills necessary to create a complete and thorough
research paper
Evaluate the impact of irony on text
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Organize information using an acceptable style manual
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Recognize and apply specialized vocabulary
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Analyze Greek, Latin, AngloSaxon word forms
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Use reference materials effectively
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Analyze the archetype of the epic hero
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Analyze the universal themes of epic poetry
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Compare literary forms of major time periods
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Revise writing for all conventions
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Refine selected pieces for publishing/sharing
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Maintain writing portfolio
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Use elements of discourse effectively
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Write poems using a range of poetic techniques
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Demonstrate organization, unity and coherence in writing
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Use extension and multi-level elaboration to develop ideas
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Balance concrete and commentary information
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Use point of view, characterization, style, and related elements
for specific purposes
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Prepare and participate in structured discussions and a variety
of speaking activities
The Little Rock School District is committed to preparing
important.
This brochure is designed to help parents know what is
being taught in both literacy and mathematics, and to
help parents help students. On a month-by-month basis,
this Parent Curriculum Brochure gives the curriculum that
drives the instruction and describes what students are expected to know.
We welcome
your involvement,
advocacy, and
participation in the educational process. As partners,
we can help reach the goal of preparing students to be
successful in all that they do.
Linda Watson, Ed. D.
Superintendent of Schools
December/January
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Analyze the characteristics of pastoral poems
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Analyze carpe diem poetry
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Analyze the characteristics of Shakespearian sonnets
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Analyze the characteristics of metaphysical poetry and
conceits
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Evaluate and select individualized strategies to support active
reading
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Draw inferences from multiple selections of a single author
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Suspend personal biases in reading
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Investigate the features and devices of different policy
statements
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Challenge of defend author’s use of fallacies
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Read and critique dramatic selections
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Analyze and evaluate the most effective elements of plays
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Compare and apply wisdom literature from different cultures
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Write expository and persuasive compositions
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Write a variety of letters
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Analyze the use of monologue and soliloquy in drama
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Critique relationships among purpose, audience, content