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Grade 10 English & Literature.

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Textbook 1Diction, Syntax, Style, Voice, and Academic Register

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Diction as a Rhetorical Tool

Chapter 2

Syntax as a Rhetorical Tool

Chapter 3

Style and Voice

Chapter 4

Formal and Academic Register

Textbook 2Validity, Bias, Context, and Independent Interpretation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Premises, Assumptions, and Validity

Chapter 2

Reasoning Failures and Evidence

Chapter 3

Bias and Context

Chapter 4

Independent Interpretation

Textbook 3Sophisticated Argument, Complex Analysis, and Comparative Writing

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Sophisticated Argument Architecture

Chapter 2

Validity, Evidence, and Rhetorical Style

Chapter 3

Analytical Essays on Complex Texts

Chapter 4

Introductory Comparative Literature

Textbook 4Independent Research, Documentation, and Academic Integrity

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Research Design

Chapter 2

Source Discovery and Evaluation

Chapter 3

Synthesis and Documentation

Chapter 4

Documented Research Paper

Textbook 5Media Construction, Influence, and Public Meaning

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

How Media Is Constructed

Chapter 2

Headlines, Graphics, and Data

Chapter 3

Influence, Identity, and Repetition

Chapter 4

One Issue across Media

Textbook 6Persuasive and Analytical Speaking, Rhetorical Appeals, and Debate

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Audience Adaptation

Chapter 2

Rhetorical Appeals

Chapter 3

Persuasive and Analytical Speaking

Chapter 4

Formal Debate and Seminar

Textbook 7Poetic Movements, Historical Context, and Comparative Poetry

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Renaissance and Metaphysical Poetry

Chapter 2

Romanticism

Chapter 3

Victorian, National, or Anti-Colonial Poetry

Chapter 4

Comparative Poetry across Cultures and Periods

Textbook 8Shakespeare in Full—Macbeth

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Prophecy, Ambition, and the Rhetoric of Possibility

Chapter 2

Choice, Murder, and Moral Disorder

Chapter 3

Power, Fear, and the Collapse of Meaning

Chapter 4

Guilt, Time, Death, and Tragic Resolution

Textbook 9Greek Tragedy—Oedipus the King and Antigone

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Greek Tragic Form and Oedipus as Investigator

Chapter 2

Recognition, Reversal, Fate, and Responsibility

Chapter 3

Antigone—Law, Family, and Competing Duties

Chapter 4

Tragic Choice and Comparative Greek Drama

Textbook 10World Long Narratives, Novels, Short Fiction, Speeches, Essays, and Critical Lenses

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

World Long Narratives in Historical Context

Chapter 2

World-Literature Novel Study

Chapter 3

Comparative Prose Fiction and Introductory Critical Lenses

Chapter 4

Speeches and Essays across Cultures—Final Portfolio

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Every competency, covered.

The 171 competencies set for Grade 10 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Diction, Syntax, Style, Voice, and Academic Register

30 competencies

Analyze how diction shapes rhetorical effect.
Analyze how syntax shapes rhetorical effect.
Use simple syntax deliberately for force or clarity.
Use complex syntax deliberately for qualification or development.
Use periodic movement for suspense or emphasis.
Use cumulative movement for expansion or reflection.
Use parallelism and antithesis deliberately.
Control sentence rhythm across a paragraph.
Adapt syntax to argument, analysis, narrative, speech, and research.
Establish and maintain a formal register.
Establish and maintain an academic register.
Adapt formality to audience, purpose, and medium.
Use appropriate hedging and qualification.
Use nominalization selectively and clearly.
Use passive voice where the receiver, process, or result deserves emphasis.
Avoid inflated or falsely academic language.
Use punctuation for deliberate rhetorical effect.
Sustain a deliberate analytical or argumentative voice.
Sustain a deliberate narrative or reflective voice.
Revise for precision, concision, rhythm, emphasis, and coherence.
Edit academic prose for convention and register.
Explain how a stylistic revision alters audience response.
Apply formal and academic conventions consistently.
Adapt vocabulary to formal, academic, rhetorical, analytical, and narrative registers.
Analyze historical meanings of important words.
Analyze political, religious, legal, scientific, or cultural connotations where relevant.
Infer difficult meaning through context, morphology, etymology, and historical usage.
Revise diction for precision, nuance, register, and rhetorical effect.
Maintain appropriate rhetorical style and register.
Revise for validity, interpretation, style, comparison, documentation, and coherence.

Validity, Bias, Context, and Independent Interpretation

35 competencies

Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Identify an argument’s explicit premises.
Identify important unstated assumptions.
Evaluate whether the conclusion follows from the premises.
Distinguish valid reasoning from persuasive but unsupported reasoning.
Evaluate the strength of inductive evidence.
Identify false dilemma, hasty generalization, faulty analogy, circular reasoning, and non sequitur in accessible texts.
Identify causal oversimplification and selective evidence.
Identify irrelevant authority, personal attack, or distorted opposition in clear cases.
Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Distinguish argument validity from factual accuracy.
Identify a text’s historical context.
Identify relevant cultural and intellectual context.
Analyze how context shapes assumptions, language, genre, and audience.
Analyze how a text reflects its context.
Analyze how a text resists or criticizes its context.
Avoid treating context as the sole explanation for meaning.
Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Distinguish bias from falsehood and validity.
Formulate an independent interpretation.
Select textual patterns supporting the interpretation.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Qualify an interpretation according to evidence.
Compare an independent interpretation with another reading.
Defend the stronger interpretation without claiming absolute certainty.
Revise an interpretation after contextual or textual reconsideration.
Use validity and reasoning terminology accurately.
Use context and bias terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Address ambiguity and alternative interpretation.

Sophisticated Argument, Complex Analysis, and Comparative Writing

36 competencies

Create cohesion across extended compositions.
Use transitions emerging from ideas and argument structure.
Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Formulate an independent interpretation.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Qualify an interpretation according to evidence.
Compare an independent interpretation with another reading.
Use rich analytical vocabulary precisely.
Use rich argumentative vocabulary precisely.
Distinguish subtle differences among analytical verbs.
Distinguish suggests, implies, establishes, complicates, qualifies, reinforces, undermines, reframes, and contradicts.
Avoid vague critical terms unsupported by explanation.
Formulate a sophisticated, precise, and qualified argumentative thesis.
Establish the issue’s stakes and significance.
Organize reasons strategically.
Integrate counterclaims throughout an argument.
Evaluate the validity of reasoning used in the argument.
Select evidence according to relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Maintain appropriate rhetorical style and register.
Write a sophisticated argumentative essay.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Use close reading from several passages.
Address ambiguity and alternative interpretation.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Compare two texts through a shared analytical frame.
Avoid mere similarity-and-difference listing.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.
Revise for validity, interpretation, style, comparison, documentation, and coherence.

Independent Research, Documentation, and Academic Integrity

23 competencies

Conduct independent preliminary research within an academically bounded environment.
Refine a research question independently.
Select source types according to the research need.
Develop effective search terms and source pathways.
Maintain a working bibliography.
Maintain quotation, paraphrase, and summary records.
Evaluate relevance, credibility, evidence, method, currency, bias, and purpose.
Synthesize sources around findings or claims.
Document all source use consistently.
Conduct a citation audit.
Conduct an evidence-representation audit.
Avoid fabrication of sources, evidence, and quotations.
Explain permitted and impermissible collaboration.
Disclose significant research or writing assistance according to Hagwow academic-integrity rules.
Write a documented research paper.
Present and defend the paper’s thesis, evidence, limitations, and conclusions.
Maintain academic integrity throughout inquiry, drafting, documentation, and presentation.
Defend a documented research conclusion.
Use research, media-construction, and academic-integrity terminology accurately.
Formulate a documented research-paper thesis.
Organize a research paper into coherent sections.
Synthesize and document sources.
Address limitations and unresolved questions.

Media Construction, Influence, and Public Meaning

11 competencies

Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Analyze selection and framing in media construction.
Analyze editing, sequence, sound, music, design, and typography.
Analyze headlines, captions, charts, and image choices.
Analyze platform conventions and introductory distribution effects.
Analyze how repetition, emotional association, authority signals, and group identity influence audiences.
Analyze sponsorship, advertising, and influencer presentation.
Distinguish influence from direct control.
Compare how one issue is constructed across media forms.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Write a sophisticated argumentative essay.

Persuasive and Analytical Speaking, Rhetorical Appeals, and Debate

23 competencies

Adapt formality to audience, purpose, and medium.
Sustain a deliberate analytical or argumentative voice.
Analyze the knowledge and concerns of a target audience.
Adapt evidence and explanation to the audience.
Adapt tone, register, organization, and delivery to purpose.
Establish speaker credibility ethically.
Use logical reasoning as the core of persuasion.
Use emotional identification without distorting evidence.
Evaluate credibility, logic, and emotion in another speaker’s argument.
Distinguish ethical rhetorical appeal from manipulation.
Deliver a persuasive speech.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Synthesize sources orally.
Conduct formal cross-questioning.
Respond to complex counterarguments.
Deliver rebuttal and refutation.
Deliver a qualified closing synthesis.
Lead an analytical seminar.
Respond to disagreement with nuance.
Defend an independent literary interpretation.
Evaluate personal rhetorical choices and audience impact.
Use concession, rebuttal, refutation, and qualification accurately.

Poetic Movements, Historical Context, and Comparative Poetry

17 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Identify a poetic movement in historical context.
Analyze how poets within a movement share or contest concerns and techniques.
Compare poems across movements, cultures, or periods.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Use poetic-movement terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.

Shakespeare in Full—Macbeth

14 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Analyze how diction and syntax shape characterization, conflict, and meaning.
Analyze how structural choices complicate interpretation.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Analyze a full Shakespeare play.
Close-read Shakespearean imagery, rhetoric, syntax, and dramatic structure.
Analyze tragic or political conflict in Shakespeare.
Evaluate fate, agency, responsibility, and public obligation.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Perform Shakespearean language with interpretive control.
Use word history to interpret Shakespearean language.
Use Shakespearean and Greek-drama terminology accurately.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.

Greek Tragedy—Oedipus the King and Antigone

18 competencies

Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Analyze full Greek tragedy.
Analyze chorus, recognition, reversal, tragic choice, and consequence.
Evaluate fate, agency, responsibility, and public obligation.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Lead an analytical seminar.
Respond to disagreement with nuance.
Defend an independent literary interpretation.
Perform Greek dramatic scenes with attention to chorus, conflict, and tragic form.
Use word history to interpret Greek dramatic and rhetorical terminology.
Use Shakespearean and Greek-drama terminology accurately.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.

World Long Narratives, Novels, Short Fiction, Speeches, Essays, and Critical Lenses

34 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Analyze how diction and syntax shape characterization, conflict, and meaning.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Apply an introductory lens involving power, gender, class, empire, psychology, ethics, history, or reader perspective.
Treat a lens as a question rather than a predetermined conclusion.
Evaluate the strengths and limits of a lens.
Analyze world long narratives in historical context.
Compare world-literature novels or substantial prose works.
Analyze speeches and essays rhetorically across cultures.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Distinguish introductory lens-based analysis from developed literary criticism.
Analyze how context shapes assumptions, language, genre, and audience.
Analyze how a text reflects its context.
Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Distinguish bias from falsehood and validity.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Analyze and compare speeches across cultures.
Use comparative-literature and lens terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.
Apply an introductory critical-lens question cautiously.
Explain what a lens illuminates and what it may overlook.
Edit and publish polished argument, analysis, comparison, narrative, and research writing.

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Textbook 1Diction, Syntax, Style, Voice, and Academic Register

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Diction as a Rhetorical Tool

Chapter 2

Syntax as a Rhetorical Tool

Chapter 3

Style and Voice

Chapter 4

Formal and Academic Register

Textbook 2Validity, Bias, Context, and Independent Interpretation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Premises, Assumptions, and Validity

Chapter 2

Reasoning Failures and Evidence

Chapter 3

Bias and Context

Chapter 4

Independent Interpretation

Textbook 3Sophisticated Argument, Complex Analysis, and Comparative Writing

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Sophisticated Argument Architecture

Chapter 2

Validity, Evidence, and Rhetorical Style

Chapter 3

Analytical Essays on Complex Texts

Chapter 4

Introductory Comparative Literature

Textbook 4Independent Research, Documentation, and Academic Integrity

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Research Design

Chapter 2

Source Discovery and Evaluation

Chapter 3

Synthesis and Documentation

Chapter 4

Documented Research Paper

Textbook 5Media Construction, Influence, and Public Meaning

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

How Media Is Constructed

Chapter 2

Headlines, Graphics, and Data

Chapter 3

Influence, Identity, and Repetition

Chapter 4

One Issue across Media

Textbook 6Persuasive and Analytical Speaking, Rhetorical Appeals, and Debate

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Audience Adaptation

Chapter 2

Rhetorical Appeals

Chapter 3

Persuasive and Analytical Speaking

Chapter 4

Formal Debate and Seminar

Textbook 7Poetic Movements, Historical Context, and Comparative Poetry

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Renaissance and Metaphysical Poetry

Chapter 2

Romanticism

Chapter 3

Victorian, National, or Anti-Colonial Poetry

Chapter 4

Comparative Poetry across Cultures and Periods

Textbook 8Shakespeare in Full—Macbeth

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Prophecy, Ambition, and the Rhetoric of Possibility

Chapter 2

Choice, Murder, and Moral Disorder

Chapter 3

Power, Fear, and the Collapse of Meaning

Chapter 4

Guilt, Time, Death, and Tragic Resolution

Textbook 9Greek Tragedy—Oedipus the King and Antigone

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Greek Tragic Form and Oedipus as Investigator

Chapter 2

Recognition, Reversal, Fate, and Responsibility

Chapter 3

Antigone—Law, Family, and Competing Duties

Chapter 4

Tragic Choice and Comparative Greek Drama

Textbook 10World Long Narratives, Novels, Short Fiction, Speeches, Essays, and Critical Lenses

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

World Long Narratives in Historical Context

Chapter 2

World-Literature Novel Study

Chapter 3

Comparative Prose Fiction and Introductory Critical Lenses

Chapter 4

Speeches and Essays across Cultures—Final Portfolio

Every competency, covered.

The 171 competencies set for Grade 10 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Diction, Syntax, Style, Voice, and Academic Register

30 competencies

Analyze how diction shapes rhetorical effect.
Analyze how syntax shapes rhetorical effect.
Use simple syntax deliberately for force or clarity.
Use complex syntax deliberately for qualification or development.
Use periodic movement for suspense or emphasis.
Use cumulative movement for expansion or reflection.
Use parallelism and antithesis deliberately.
Control sentence rhythm across a paragraph.
Adapt syntax to argument, analysis, narrative, speech, and research.
Establish and maintain a formal register.
Establish and maintain an academic register.
Adapt formality to audience, purpose, and medium.
Use appropriate hedging and qualification.
Use nominalization selectively and clearly.
Use passive voice where the receiver, process, or result deserves emphasis.
Avoid inflated or falsely academic language.
Use punctuation for deliberate rhetorical effect.
Sustain a deliberate analytical or argumentative voice.
Sustain a deliberate narrative or reflective voice.
Revise for precision, concision, rhythm, emphasis, and coherence.
Edit academic prose for convention and register.
Explain how a stylistic revision alters audience response.
Apply formal and academic conventions consistently.
Adapt vocabulary to formal, academic, rhetorical, analytical, and narrative registers.
Analyze historical meanings of important words.
Analyze political, religious, legal, scientific, or cultural connotations where relevant.
Infer difficult meaning through context, morphology, etymology, and historical usage.
Revise diction for precision, nuance, register, and rhetorical effect.
Maintain appropriate rhetorical style and register.
Revise for validity, interpretation, style, comparison, documentation, and coherence.

Validity, Bias, Context, and Independent Interpretation

35 competencies

Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Identify an argument’s explicit premises.
Identify important unstated assumptions.
Evaluate whether the conclusion follows from the premises.
Distinguish valid reasoning from persuasive but unsupported reasoning.
Evaluate the strength of inductive evidence.
Identify false dilemma, hasty generalization, faulty analogy, circular reasoning, and non sequitur in accessible texts.
Identify causal oversimplification and selective evidence.
Identify irrelevant authority, personal attack, or distorted opposition in clear cases.
Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Distinguish argument validity from factual accuracy.
Identify a text’s historical context.
Identify relevant cultural and intellectual context.
Analyze how context shapes assumptions, language, genre, and audience.
Analyze how a text reflects its context.
Analyze how a text resists or criticizes its context.
Avoid treating context as the sole explanation for meaning.
Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Distinguish bias from falsehood and validity.
Formulate an independent interpretation.
Select textual patterns supporting the interpretation.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Qualify an interpretation according to evidence.
Compare an independent interpretation with another reading.
Defend the stronger interpretation without claiming absolute certainty.
Revise an interpretation after contextual or textual reconsideration.
Use validity and reasoning terminology accurately.
Use context and bias terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Address ambiguity and alternative interpretation.

Sophisticated Argument, Complex Analysis, and Comparative Writing

36 competencies

Create cohesion across extended compositions.
Use transitions emerging from ideas and argument structure.
Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Evaluate evidence for relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Formulate an independent interpretation.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Qualify an interpretation according to evidence.
Compare an independent interpretation with another reading.
Use rich analytical vocabulary precisely.
Use rich argumentative vocabulary precisely.
Distinguish subtle differences among analytical verbs.
Distinguish suggests, implies, establishes, complicates, qualifies, reinforces, undermines, reframes, and contradicts.
Avoid vague critical terms unsupported by explanation.
Formulate a sophisticated, precise, and qualified argumentative thesis.
Establish the issue’s stakes and significance.
Organize reasons strategically.
Integrate counterclaims throughout an argument.
Evaluate the validity of reasoning used in the argument.
Select evidence according to relevance, quality, and sufficiency.
Maintain appropriate rhetorical style and register.
Write a sophisticated argumentative essay.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Use close reading from several passages.
Address ambiguity and alternative interpretation.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Compare two texts through a shared analytical frame.
Avoid mere similarity-and-difference listing.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.
Revise for validity, interpretation, style, comparison, documentation, and coherence.

Independent Research, Documentation, and Academic Integrity

23 competencies

Conduct independent preliminary research within an academically bounded environment.
Refine a research question independently.
Select source types according to the research need.
Develop effective search terms and source pathways.
Maintain a working bibliography.
Maintain quotation, paraphrase, and summary records.
Evaluate relevance, credibility, evidence, method, currency, bias, and purpose.
Synthesize sources around findings or claims.
Document all source use consistently.
Conduct a citation audit.
Conduct an evidence-representation audit.
Avoid fabrication of sources, evidence, and quotations.
Explain permitted and impermissible collaboration.
Disclose significant research or writing assistance according to Hagwow academic-integrity rules.
Write a documented research paper.
Present and defend the paper’s thesis, evidence, limitations, and conclusions.
Maintain academic integrity throughout inquiry, drafting, documentation, and presentation.
Defend a documented research conclusion.
Use research, media-construction, and academic-integrity terminology accurately.
Formulate a documented research-paper thesis.
Organize a research paper into coherent sections.
Synthesize and document sources.
Address limitations and unresolved questions.

Media Construction, Influence, and Public Meaning

11 competencies

Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Analyze selection and framing in media construction.
Analyze editing, sequence, sound, music, design, and typography.
Analyze headlines, captions, charts, and image choices.
Analyze platform conventions and introductory distribution effects.
Analyze how repetition, emotional association, authority signals, and group identity influence audiences.
Analyze sponsorship, advertising, and influencer presentation.
Distinguish influence from direct control.
Compare how one issue is constructed across media forms.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Write a sophisticated argumentative essay.

Persuasive and Analytical Speaking, Rhetorical Appeals, and Debate

23 competencies

Adapt formality to audience, purpose, and medium.
Sustain a deliberate analytical or argumentative voice.
Analyze the knowledge and concerns of a target audience.
Adapt evidence and explanation to the audience.
Adapt tone, register, organization, and delivery to purpose.
Establish speaker credibility ethically.
Use logical reasoning as the core of persuasion.
Use emotional identification without distorting evidence.
Evaluate credibility, logic, and emotion in another speaker’s argument.
Distinguish ethical rhetorical appeal from manipulation.
Deliver a persuasive speech.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Synthesize sources orally.
Conduct formal cross-questioning.
Respond to complex counterarguments.
Deliver rebuttal and refutation.
Deliver a qualified closing synthesis.
Lead an analytical seminar.
Respond to disagreement with nuance.
Defend an independent literary interpretation.
Evaluate personal rhetorical choices and audience impact.
Use concession, rebuttal, refutation, and qualification accurately.

Poetic Movements, Historical Context, and Comparative Poetry

17 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Identify a poetic movement in historical context.
Analyze how poets within a movement share or contest concerns and techniques.
Compare poems across movements, cultures, or periods.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Use poetic-movement terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.

Shakespeare in Full—Macbeth

14 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Analyze how diction and syntax shape characterization, conflict, and meaning.
Analyze how structural choices complicate interpretation.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Analyze a full Shakespeare play.
Close-read Shakespearean imagery, rhetoric, syntax, and dramatic structure.
Analyze tragic or political conflict in Shakespeare.
Evaluate fate, agency, responsibility, and public obligation.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Consider ambiguity and alternative interpretations.
Perform Shakespearean language with interpretive control.
Use word history to interpret Shakespearean language.
Use Shakespearean and Greek-drama terminology accurately.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.

Greek Tragedy—Oedipus the King and Antigone

18 competencies

Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Analyze full Greek tragedy.
Analyze chorus, recognition, reversal, tragic choice, and consequence.
Evaluate fate, agency, responsibility, and public obligation.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Lead an analytical seminar.
Respond to disagreement with nuance.
Defend an independent literary interpretation.
Perform Greek dramatic scenes with attention to chorus, conflict, and tragic form.
Use word history to interpret Greek dramatic and rhetorical terminology.
Use Shakespearean and Greek-drama terminology accurately.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.

World Long Narratives, Novels, Short Fiction, Speeches, Essays, and Critical Lenses

34 competencies

Analyze how theme develops through style and form.
Analyze how diction and syntax shape characterization, conflict, and meaning.
Use historical context to clarify a literary work.
Use cultural and intellectual context where relevant.
Explain how a work reflects, resists, or critiques its context.
Avoid reducing literature to historical background.
Formulate an independent interpretation of a complex work.
Compare two substantial literary works through a focused question.
Analyze similarities and differences in form, context, theme, and style.
Conduct introductory comparative-literature analysis.
Apply an introductory lens involving power, gender, class, empire, psychology, ethics, history, or reader perspective.
Treat a lens as a question rather than a predetermined conclusion.
Evaluate the strengths and limits of a lens.
Analyze world long narratives in historical context.
Compare world-literature novels or substantial prose works.
Analyze speeches and essays rhetorically across cultures.
Defend an independent interpretation with sustained textual evidence.
Distinguish introductory lens-based analysis from developed literary criticism.
Analyze how context shapes assumptions, language, genre, and audience.
Analyze how a text reflects its context.
Analyze bias through selection, omission, framing, language, interest, and audience.
Distinguish bias from falsehood and validity.
Deliver an analytical presentation.
Present a comparative literary interpretation.
Analyze and compare speeches across cultures.
Use comparative-literature and lens terminology accurately.
Formulate an independent literary interpretation.
Analyze theme, style, form, and context together.
Write an analytical essay on a complex text.
Formulate a focused comparative-literature question.
Write an introductory comparative-literature essay.
Apply an introductory critical-lens question cautiously.
Explain what a lens illuminates and what it may overlook.
Edit and publish polished argument, analysis, comparison, narrative, and research writing.