Course title

Foundations in Language and Literature: Literary Analysis

Pre-requisite

Foundations in Language and Literature: Comprehension

Course description

This course is a highly structured program designed to allow scholars to build upon their previous academic skills and knowledge to further expand their skills from Foundations in Language and Literature: Comprehension. Scholars will continue to expand their critical thinking skills and develop their literacy skills. This course allows scholars to read, discuss, and analyze literary and non-literary texts investigating how authors relate textual elements such as characters, plot, and central ideas within a text. Scholars will also focus on an author's word choice in order to observe how the author expresses their ideas and perspectives in order to advance the scholar’s individual ability to express their own ideas and perspectives. Scholars will learn foundational skills to complete inquiry based research. Using these skills, scholars will participate in an individual research assignment. Scholars will also learn and practice narrative writing techniques as they analyze author techniques. Scholars will demonstrate their learning through scholar-led-discussions and writing assignments/assessments requiring citations, references, and formatting. Scholars must meet eligibility requirements to take this course.

School country

United States

School state

Arizona

School city

Buckeye

High school

Odyssey Institute of Advanced and International Studies

School / district Address

1495 S Verrado Way

School zip code

85326

Requested competency code

English

Date submitted

Deferred

Yes

Deferred date

Deferred Reason

In order to be reviewed for competency applicability, we need ore information on the scope & sequence of these courses. Additionally, how do these course standards align in comparison to their general education course counterparts.

Expected grade level

11th

Online / Virtual

No