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

Aesthetics: Syntax
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
• Syntactical rules must be mastered, but good writers manipulate syntax
(the rules) as they develop their craft.
• Patterns in language help to convey meaning of language.
• Manipulating language to convey specific meaning requires mastery of
language structures and elements of author’s craft.
Essential Questions:
• How do authors manipulate sentences to convey different meanings
• How is punctuation syntax
• Why do sentence structures matter
• Why do authors manipulate syntax
9-12:
Evaluate the author’s use of syntax to
convey meaning. Demonstrate
mastery of various sentence
structures (simple, compound,
complex, and compound-complex)
and speak and write using a variety
of sentence structures. Evaluate how
and why authors “break the rules.”
6-8:
Create and analyze increasingly
complex sentences. Identify and
eliminate sentence fragments and
run-ons. Manipulate sentences
without losing meaning. Relate
syntax to author’s craft.
3-5:
Identify simple and compound
sentences. Manipulate sentences to
determine whether they hold the
same meaning. Write using complete
simple and compound sentences.
K-2:
Identify patterns in language.
Distinguish between simple and more
complex sentences in text. Write in
complete sentences.
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