11th - 12th Grade Reading: Literature

For eleventh and twelfth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, eleventh and twelfth graders will be asked to: support a textual analysis with direct textual evidence and explicit inferences, determine the theme of a text and how it develops within the text as well as what the text leave as uncertain, be able to give an objective summary of a text, be able to analyze complex word and phrase choices in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings, begin to define how the aesthetics and beauty of language and structural choices by the author change the way in which a text conveys meaning, analyze multiple recorded or live versions of a story, drama or poem including at least one drama by Shakespeare and one by an American dramatist, demonstrate knowledge of, and ability to compare and contrast, at eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century works of American literature, read text appropriate to grade level while increasing in the level of text complexity throughout the year to prepare for college and career readiness.