You will learn how to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.

You will be able to recognize monologue and soliloquy and explain how they function in a play.

You will be able to analyze various scenes in several works of fiction to see how those scenes affect the plot as a whole.

You will be able to summarize a text and distinguish between a summary and a critique, identifying nonessential information in a summary, and unsubstantiated opinions in a critique.

You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that similar grammatical structures in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs are parallel.

You will be able to evaluate the author's syntax and its impact on the meaning of a text.

You will learn how to use outlines, notes, graphic organizers, and lists to help you evaluate and organize your ideas.

You will be able to evaluate the role of imagery, metaphor, and simile in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays.

You will be able to analyze the function of allusion in literary texts.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation, including correcting the comma splice.

You will be able to understand the function and use of reciprocal pronouns such as each other and one another.

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

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.

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.