• Analyze both the features and the rhetorical devices of different types of public documents (e.g., policy statements, speeches, debates, platforms) and the way in which authors use those features and devices.

• Analyze the way in which clarity of meaning is affected by the patterns of organization, hierarchical structures, repetition of the main ideas, syntax, and word choice in the text.

• Make warranted and reasonable assertions about the author’s arguments by using elements of the text to defend and clarify interpretations.

• Analyze an author’s implicit and explicit philosophical assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

• Critique the power, validity, and truthfulness of an argument set forth in public documents; their appeal to both friendly and hostile audiences; and the extent to which the arguments anticipate and address reader concerns and counterclaims (e.g., appeal to reason, to authority, to pathos and emotion.

• Analyze the ways in which irony, tone, mood, the author’s style, and the "sound" of language achieve specific rhetorical or aesthetic purpose or both.

Writing

• Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments.

• Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant samples.

• Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and genre

• Write responses to literature:

1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas in works or passages.
2. Analyze the use of imagery, language, universal themes, and unique aspects

c. Support important ideas and viewpoints through accurate and detailed

references to the text and to other works.

d. Demonstrate an understanding of the author’s use of stylistic devices and an

appreciation of the effects created.

1. Identify and asses the impact of the perceived ambiguities, nuances, and

• Write reflective compositions:

1. Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that

illustrate the writer’s important beliefs or generalizations about life.

2. Maintain a balance in describing individual incidents and relate those incidents to more general and abstract ideas.

 

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