Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

Aesthetics:
Literary Elements
Enduring Understandings
• Beauty is cultural and individual.
• Words are powerful.
• Ideas are communicated figuratively and complexly.
• Tone, mood, and voice enhance the subjective experience of language.
Essential Understandings
• Authors use words deliberately.
• Authors communicate ideas directly and figuratively.
• Authors use literary elements to convey meaning and to move a piece
forward.
• An individual’s own biases and preferences influence the text at hand.
9-12:
Evaluate the author’s use of literary
elements. Evaluate how a text would
differ had the author used a different
structure, tone, setting, etc. Evaluate
the author’s use of words, images, and
symbols. Apply literary elements to
own writing, using specific language to
convey meaning and exploring sametopic
pieces from multiple perspectives.
6-8:
Identify literary elements of style, tone,
mood, allegory, symbolism, parody,
foreshadowing, epilogues, prologue,
and irony. Evaluate an author’s use of
character, plot, setting, theme, and
point of view. Apply literary elements
to own writing. Select high-powered,
specific vocabulary to convey meaning.
Write both directly and figuratively,
including use of figurative language in
narrative and nonfiction forms.
Essential Questions:
• How do words mean
• How do literary elements frame and affect a text
• How does an individual’s perspective influence the experience of language
and literature
3-5:
Apply knowledge of story structure to
understand more complex text. Identify
literary elements of character, plot,
setting, theme, point of view, and
style. Apply knowledge of literary
elements to own writing.
K-2:
Understand that stories have structure
that includes basic elements of
literature: character, plot, setting.
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