Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...
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12 th -grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts<br />
Concepts & Reading Requirements<br />
Systems: Genre: Tragedy<br />
Communication: Author’s Craft<br />
Aesthetics: Literary Elements<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Requirement: All students will analyze the evolution<br />
of the tragic hero to the anti-hero.<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Requirement: All students will analyze the influence<br />
of the epic through time to the roots of Imperialism.<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Aesthetics: Syntax<br />
Requirement: All students will read a piece of satire<br />
in relation to the evolution of language.<br />
Aesthetics: Style, Syntax<br />
Communication: Author’s Craft, Author’s<br />
Purpose<br />
Requirement: All students will evaluate author’s<br />
craft and purpose in a literary work.<br />
Universality: Theme<br />
Change & Continuity: Cultural Context<br />
Communication: Author’s Craft<br />
Requirement: All students will explore the literary<br />
movements of modernism and existentialism.<br />
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students. The<br />
following texts are currently under consideration by grade-level<br />
teachers across the division.<br />
• Macbeth (Shakespeare)<br />
• King Lear (Shakespeare)<br />
• Hamlet (Shakespeare)<br />
• Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy)<br />
• Grendel (Gardner)<br />
• Master Harold and the Boys (Fugard)<br />
• Things Fall Apart (Achebe)<br />
• Beowulf<br />
• Grendel (Gardner)<br />
• Lord of the Flies (Golding)<br />
• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />
• Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)<br />
• A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)<br />
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)<br />
• The Importance of Being Ernest (Wilde)<br />
• The Princess Bride (Goldman)<br />
• Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary & Essays<br />
• Grendel (Gardner)<br />
• Princess Bride (Goldman)<br />
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time<br />
(Haddon)<br />
• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />
• Poetry<br />
• 18 th Century Essays (Johnson, Addison, et al)<br />
• Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)<br />
• Brave New World (Huxley)<br />
• Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)<br />
• Alias Grace (Atwood)<br />
• Catch-22 (Heller)<br />
• Heart of Darkness (Conrad)<br />
• Waiting for Godot (Beckett)<br />
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