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Grade 11 English & Literature.

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Textbook 1Advanced Style, Syntactic Sophistication, and Scholarly Conventions

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Advanced Critical Style

Chapter 2

Syntactic Sophistication

Chapter 3

Integrating Primary and Critical Sources

Chapter 4

Scholarly Conventions and Extended Cohesion

Textbook 2Reading Like a Scholar—Dense Texts and Competing Interpretations

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Reading Dense Critical Prose

Chapter 2

Primary Text and Critical Commentary

Chapter 3

Competing Interpretations

Chapter 4

Consensus, Debate, and Independent Judgment

Textbook 3Extended Argument, Literary Criticism, and Accessible Critical Theory

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Extended Argument Architecture

Chapter 2

Literary Criticism

Chapter 3

Accessible Critical Theory

Chapter 4

Critically Informed Original Argument

Textbook 4Scholarly Research, Source Review, and Disciplinary Citation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Scholarly versus Popular Sources

Chapter 2

Evaluating Scholarship

Chapter 3

Source Review and Scholarly Conversation

Chapter 4

Disciplinary Citation and Scholarly Research Project

Textbook 5Digital and Media Literacy, Advanced Speaking, and Rhetorical Command

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Platforms, Ranking, and Circulation

Chapter 2

Synthetic and Manipulated Media

Chapter 3

Advanced Argumentation and Seminar

Chapter 4

Rhetorical Command and Public Presentation

Textbook 6Poetry Criticism—Shakespeare’s Sonnets and World Poets

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Shakespeare’s Sonnets—Form, Address, and Argument

Chapter 2

Time, Desire, Memory, and Poetry

Chapter 3

World Poets and Translation

Chapter 4

Comparative Poetry Criticism

Textbook 7Hamlet—Major Tragedy and Critical Debate

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Court, Ghost, Grief, and Political Language

Chapter 2

Performance, Delay, and the Problem of Knowledge

Chapter 3

Gender, Family, Violence, and Interpretation

Chapter 4

Death, Memory, Performance, and Tragic Resolution

Textbook 8World Drama and Drama Criticism

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Drama as Text, Performance, and Institution

Chapter 2

Realism and Social Drama

Chapter 3

Non-Western or Nonrealist Dramatic Tradition

Chapter 4

Comparative World Drama Criticism

Textbook 9Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Epic Reception and Cultural Memory

Chapter 2

Rewriting the Hero

Chapter 3

Epic, Empire, Exile, and Homecoming

Chapter 4

Epic Influence across Forms

Textbook 10Canonical and World Novels, Essays, Speeches, and the Grade 11 Critical Portfolio

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Canonical Novel and Critical Conversation

Chapter 2

World Novel and Comparative Criticism

Chapter 3

Canonical Essays and Rhetorical Criticism

Chapter 4

Speeches, Research Defense, and Final Critical Portfolio

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Every competency, covered.

The 171 competencies set for Grade 11 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Advanced Style, Syntactic Sophistication, and Scholarly Conventions

30 competencies

Sustain an advanced analytical style.
Sustain an advanced argumentative style.
Use syntactic sophistication without sacrificing clarity.
Use periodic syntax deliberately.
Use cumulative syntax deliberately.
Use balance, parallelism, and antithesis in criticism and argument.
Embed qualification within complex sentences.
Embed commentary or clarification without obscuring the main claim.
Distinguish assertion, concession, speculation, and critical judgment syntactically.
Maintain scholarly register.
Integrate primary-text quotations accurately.
Integrate critical quotations accurately.
Use block quotations selectively and analyze them fully.
Use signal phrases to establish source role and stance.
Distinguish the student’s interpretation from a critic’s claim.
Use scholarly hedging accurately.
Avoid excessive certainty and excessive hedging.
Use section signposting in extended work.
Create cohesion across a long critical argument.
Maintain appropriate tense across literary, historical, and critical writing.
Revise inflated or jargon-heavy prose.
Revise syntactically dense prose for clarity.
Preserve complexity while improving readability.
Edit for precision, rhythm, scholarly tone, and ethical source representation.
Apply scholarly conventions consistently across extended compositions.
Use scholarly vocabulary accurately.
Revise diction for nuance, precision, scholarly tone, and rhetorical effect.
Sustain an argument across a long structure.
Revise for critical coherence, source engagement, theoretical consistency, and rhetorical sophistication.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Reading Like a Scholar—Dense Texts and Competing Interpretations

27 competencies

Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Identify critical assumptions and method.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Read and annotate a dense complex text.
Identify central and supporting claims in extended prose.
Identify a writer’s conceptual framework.
Identify definitions controlling an argument.
Identify assumptions and methodological choices.
Identify scope, limitations, and implications.
Follow a long chain of reasoning.
Paraphrase a dense critical claim accurately.
Distinguish a primary text from critical commentary.
Identify a critic’s thesis and evidence.
Evaluate whether the cited evidence supports the critical claim.
Compare competing interpretations of one text.
Distinguish disagreement over evidence, method, theory, context, or emphasis.
Weigh interpretations by explanatory power and textual support.
Recognize where two interpretations may be partly compatible.
Synthesize a bounded critical conversation.
Distinguish consensus, influential interpretation, minority position, and unsupported opinion.
Formulate a critically informed but independent conclusion.
Analyze nuanced connotation in literary and critical texts.
Infer unfamiliar scholarly language through context, morphology, etymology, and disciplinary knowledge.

Extended Argument, Literary Criticism, and Accessible Critical Theory

45 competencies

Integrate primary-text quotations accurately.
Create cohesion across a long critical argument.
Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Identify critical assumptions and method.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Apply an accessible formalist approach.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible ethical or reader-response approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Evaluate what a critical approach reveals and obscures.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Identify central and supporting claims in extended prose.
Identify a critic’s theoretical or methodological assumptions.
Synthesize a bounded critical conversation.
Read an accessible theoretical passage.
Explain the questions a theory asks.
Evaluate the usefulness and limits of a theoretical approach.
Revise an interpretation after engaging criticism.
Formulate a critically informed but independent conclusion.
Use precise diction in criticism.
Use precise diction in extended argument.
Distinguish argues, contends, posits, assumes, frames, and proposes.
Distinguish complicates, qualifies, revises, resists, reproduces, undermines, and reframes.
Distinguish demonstrates, indicates, suggests, supports, corroborates, and implies.
Use critical-theory terminology accurately and sparingly.
Analyze historical, political, philosophical, religious, and psychological connotations where relevant.
Formulate a complex and qualified thesis for an extended argument.
Define the thesis’s scope and key terms.
Establish the argument’s scholarly or public significance.
Sustain an argument across a long structure.
Integrate counterarguments throughout.
Distinguish disagreement, qualification, reframing, and synthesis.
Engage several sources or interpretations.
Represent competing arguments fairly.
Write an extended argumentative essay.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Integrate critical commentary into literary analysis.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Apply an accessible theoretical approach cautiously.
Develop an original critical position within a bounded scholarly conversation.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Scholarly Research, Source Review, and Disciplinary Citation

29 competencies

Apply scholarly conventions consistently across extended compositions.
Distinguish scholarly and popular sources.
Identify a scholarly article, monograph, book chapter, critical edition, and reference work.
Explain peer review in introductory form.
Identify an academic publisher or university press.
Evaluate author credentials and field relevance.
Evaluate publication venue and editorial accountability.
Evaluate method, evidence, and citation practice.
Explain why scholarly publication does not guarantee correctness.
Develop a scholarly research question.
Construct a scholarly source set.
Maintain a working bibliography and research log.
Organize previous scholarship by theme, debate, method, or interpretation.
Identify agreement, disagreement, gap, and methodological difference.
Write a bounded source review.
Synthesize scholarly and primary sources.
Apply the selected disciplinary citation convention accurately.
Cite editions and translators accurately.
Disclose significant research or writing assistance appropriately.
Avoid fabricated sources, quotations, editions, translators, and publication details.
Produce and defend a scholarly research project.
Use scholarly-research and disciplinary-citation terminology accurately.
Write a scholarly source review.
Organize prior interpretations or findings by debate, method, or theme.
Write a scholarly research paper.
Use disciplinary citation consistently.
Discuss method, limits, and implications where appropriate.
Revise for critical coherence, source engagement, theoretical consistency, and rhetorical sophistication.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Digital and Media Literacy, Advanced Speaking, and Rhetorical Command

26 competencies

Analyze search ranking, recommendation, virality, and platform incentives conceptually.
Analyze context collapse, influencer authority, monetization, and personalization.
Evaluate synthetic or manipulated text, image, audio, and video cautiously.
Use provenance and corroboration to verify digital material.
State uncertainty when authenticity cannot be established.
Avoid fabricated sources, quotations, editions, translators, and publication details.
Develop a sustained oral argument.
Synthesize complex evidence orally.
Respond to several counterarguments.
Qualify an oral claim accurately.
Reframe a question or disagreement productively.
Adapt a presentation for a specialist audience.
Adapt a presentation for a general audience.
Lead an academic seminar.
Frame a central seminar question.
Connect several participants’ contributions.
Distinguish disagreement over evidence, assumptions, method, and interpretation.
Challenge a critical claim with precision.
Identify unresolved questions.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a scholarly research argument.
Conduct advanced formal debate.
Use concession, qualification, and synthesis orally.
Conduct rhetorical criticism of a public speech.
Analyze text, delivery, occasion, audience, and circulation together.
Evaluate personal rhetoric, evidence, style, and audience effect.

Poetry Criticism—Shakespeare’s Sonnets and World Poets

22 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Analyze rhetoric within literary dialogue or narration.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Conduct poetry criticism.
Analyze Shakespeare’s sonnets critically.
Analyze canonical and world poets comparatively.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Cite editions and translators accurately.
Recite poetry and defend a critical interpretation.
Use poetry-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Hamlet—Major Tragedy and Critical Debate

20 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Analyze rhetoric within literary dialogue or narration.
Analyze persuasion within a soliloquy or dramatic speech.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Evaluate what a critical approach reveals and obscures.
Analyze a major Shakespearean tragedy with critical commentary.
Analyze major soliloquies, image patterns, rhetoric, and dramatic structure.
Compare critical interpretations of the tragedy.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a literary-critical interpretation.
Perform a major Shakespearean tragedy with interpretive control.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Apply an accessible theoretical approach cautiously.
Explain where the approach illuminates or limits interpretation.
Write sustained literary criticism.

World Drama and Drama Criticism

13 competencies

Compare competing critical interpretations.
Analyze how a literary work positions its reader or audience.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Analyze world drama and performance traditions.
Conduct drama criticism.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Perform and analyze world drama.
Use drama-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

13 competencies

Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible ethical or reader-response approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Analyze epic influence and reception.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Synthesize scholarly and primary sources.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a literary-critical interpretation.
Use epic-reception terminology accurately.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Canonical and World Novels, Essays, Speeches, and the Grade 11 Critical Portfolio

32 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Analyze canonical and world novels using criticism.
Analyze canonical essays and speeches through rhetorical criticism.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Identify what a critical interpretation explains well.
Identify what an interpretation neglects or cannot explain.
Weigh interpretations by explanatory power and textual support.
Produce and defend a scholarly research project.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a scholarly research argument.
Conduct rhetorical criticism of a public speech.
Analyze text, delivery, occasion, audience, and circulation together.
Use novel-criticism terminology accurately.
Use rhetorical-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Integrate critical commentary into literary analysis.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Develop an original critical position within a bounded scholarly conversation.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.
Write a scholarly research paper.
Write a sophisticated narrative using voice, structure, ethical complexity, and reflection.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

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Textbook 1Advanced Style, Syntactic Sophistication, and Scholarly Conventions

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Advanced Critical Style

Chapter 2

Syntactic Sophistication

Chapter 3

Integrating Primary and Critical Sources

Chapter 4

Scholarly Conventions and Extended Cohesion

Textbook 2Reading Like a Scholar—Dense Texts and Competing Interpretations

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Reading Dense Critical Prose

Chapter 2

Primary Text and Critical Commentary

Chapter 3

Competing Interpretations

Chapter 4

Consensus, Debate, and Independent Judgment

Textbook 3Extended Argument, Literary Criticism, and Accessible Critical Theory

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Extended Argument Architecture

Chapter 2

Literary Criticism

Chapter 3

Accessible Critical Theory

Chapter 4

Critically Informed Original Argument

Textbook 4Scholarly Research, Source Review, and Disciplinary Citation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Scholarly versus Popular Sources

Chapter 2

Evaluating Scholarship

Chapter 3

Source Review and Scholarly Conversation

Chapter 4

Disciplinary Citation and Scholarly Research Project

Textbook 5Digital and Media Literacy, Advanced Speaking, and Rhetorical Command

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Platforms, Ranking, and Circulation

Chapter 2

Synthetic and Manipulated Media

Chapter 3

Advanced Argumentation and Seminar

Chapter 4

Rhetorical Command and Public Presentation

Textbook 6Poetry Criticism—Shakespeare’s Sonnets and World Poets

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Shakespeare’s Sonnets—Form, Address, and Argument

Chapter 2

Time, Desire, Memory, and Poetry

Chapter 3

World Poets and Translation

Chapter 4

Comparative Poetry Criticism

Textbook 7Hamlet—Major Tragedy and Critical Debate

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Court, Ghost, Grief, and Political Language

Chapter 2

Performance, Delay, and the Problem of Knowledge

Chapter 3

Gender, Family, Violence, and Interpretation

Chapter 4

Death, Memory, Performance, and Tragic Resolution

Textbook 8World Drama and Drama Criticism

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Drama as Text, Performance, and Institution

Chapter 2

Realism and Social Drama

Chapter 3

Non-Western or Nonrealist Dramatic Tradition

Chapter 4

Comparative World Drama Criticism

Textbook 9Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Epic Reception and Cultural Memory

Chapter 2

Rewriting the Hero

Chapter 3

Epic, Empire, Exile, and Homecoming

Chapter 4

Epic Influence across Forms

Textbook 10Canonical and World Novels, Essays, Speeches, and the Grade 11 Critical Portfolio

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Canonical Novel and Critical Conversation

Chapter 2

World Novel and Comparative Criticism

Chapter 3

Canonical Essays and Rhetorical Criticism

Chapter 4

Speeches, Research Defense, and Final Critical Portfolio

Every competency, covered.

The 171 competencies set for Grade 11 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Advanced Style, Syntactic Sophistication, and Scholarly Conventions

30 competencies

Sustain an advanced analytical style.
Sustain an advanced argumentative style.
Use syntactic sophistication without sacrificing clarity.
Use periodic syntax deliberately.
Use cumulative syntax deliberately.
Use balance, parallelism, and antithesis in criticism and argument.
Embed qualification within complex sentences.
Embed commentary or clarification without obscuring the main claim.
Distinguish assertion, concession, speculation, and critical judgment syntactically.
Maintain scholarly register.
Integrate primary-text quotations accurately.
Integrate critical quotations accurately.
Use block quotations selectively and analyze them fully.
Use signal phrases to establish source role and stance.
Distinguish the student’s interpretation from a critic’s claim.
Use scholarly hedging accurately.
Avoid excessive certainty and excessive hedging.
Use section signposting in extended work.
Create cohesion across a long critical argument.
Maintain appropriate tense across literary, historical, and critical writing.
Revise inflated or jargon-heavy prose.
Revise syntactically dense prose for clarity.
Preserve complexity while improving readability.
Edit for precision, rhythm, scholarly tone, and ethical source representation.
Apply scholarly conventions consistently across extended compositions.
Use scholarly vocabulary accurately.
Revise diction for nuance, precision, scholarly tone, and rhetorical effect.
Sustain an argument across a long structure.
Revise for critical coherence, source engagement, theoretical consistency, and rhetorical sophistication.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Reading Like a Scholar—Dense Texts and Competing Interpretations

27 competencies

Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Identify critical assumptions and method.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Read and annotate a dense complex text.
Identify central and supporting claims in extended prose.
Identify a writer’s conceptual framework.
Identify definitions controlling an argument.
Identify assumptions and methodological choices.
Identify scope, limitations, and implications.
Follow a long chain of reasoning.
Paraphrase a dense critical claim accurately.
Distinguish a primary text from critical commentary.
Identify a critic’s thesis and evidence.
Evaluate whether the cited evidence supports the critical claim.
Compare competing interpretations of one text.
Distinguish disagreement over evidence, method, theory, context, or emphasis.
Weigh interpretations by explanatory power and textual support.
Recognize where two interpretations may be partly compatible.
Synthesize a bounded critical conversation.
Distinguish consensus, influential interpretation, minority position, and unsupported opinion.
Formulate a critically informed but independent conclusion.
Analyze nuanced connotation in literary and critical texts.
Infer unfamiliar scholarly language through context, morphology, etymology, and disciplinary knowledge.

Extended Argument, Literary Criticism, and Accessible Critical Theory

45 competencies

Integrate primary-text quotations accurately.
Create cohesion across a long critical argument.
Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Identify critical assumptions and method.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Apply an accessible formalist approach.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible ethical or reader-response approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Evaluate what a critical approach reveals and obscures.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Identify central and supporting claims in extended prose.
Identify a critic’s theoretical or methodological assumptions.
Synthesize a bounded critical conversation.
Read an accessible theoretical passage.
Explain the questions a theory asks.
Evaluate the usefulness and limits of a theoretical approach.
Revise an interpretation after engaging criticism.
Formulate a critically informed but independent conclusion.
Use precise diction in criticism.
Use precise diction in extended argument.
Distinguish argues, contends, posits, assumes, frames, and proposes.
Distinguish complicates, qualifies, revises, resists, reproduces, undermines, and reframes.
Distinguish demonstrates, indicates, suggests, supports, corroborates, and implies.
Use critical-theory terminology accurately and sparingly.
Analyze historical, political, philosophical, religious, and psychological connotations where relevant.
Formulate a complex and qualified thesis for an extended argument.
Define the thesis’s scope and key terms.
Establish the argument’s scholarly or public significance.
Sustain an argument across a long structure.
Integrate counterarguments throughout.
Distinguish disagreement, qualification, reframing, and synthesis.
Engage several sources or interpretations.
Represent competing arguments fairly.
Write an extended argumentative essay.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Integrate critical commentary into literary analysis.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Apply an accessible theoretical approach cautiously.
Develop an original critical position within a bounded scholarly conversation.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Scholarly Research, Source Review, and Disciplinary Citation

29 competencies

Apply scholarly conventions consistently across extended compositions.
Distinguish scholarly and popular sources.
Identify a scholarly article, monograph, book chapter, critical edition, and reference work.
Explain peer review in introductory form.
Identify an academic publisher or university press.
Evaluate author credentials and field relevance.
Evaluate publication venue and editorial accountability.
Evaluate method, evidence, and citation practice.
Explain why scholarly publication does not guarantee correctness.
Develop a scholarly research question.
Construct a scholarly source set.
Maintain a working bibliography and research log.
Organize previous scholarship by theme, debate, method, or interpretation.
Identify agreement, disagreement, gap, and methodological difference.
Write a bounded source review.
Synthesize scholarly and primary sources.
Apply the selected disciplinary citation convention accurately.
Cite editions and translators accurately.
Disclose significant research or writing assistance appropriately.
Avoid fabricated sources, quotations, editions, translators, and publication details.
Produce and defend a scholarly research project.
Use scholarly-research and disciplinary-citation terminology accurately.
Write a scholarly source review.
Organize prior interpretations or findings by debate, method, or theme.
Write a scholarly research paper.
Use disciplinary citation consistently.
Discuss method, limits, and implications where appropriate.
Revise for critical coherence, source engagement, theoretical consistency, and rhetorical sophistication.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.

Digital and Media Literacy, Advanced Speaking, and Rhetorical Command

26 competencies

Analyze search ranking, recommendation, virality, and platform incentives conceptually.
Analyze context collapse, influencer authority, monetization, and personalization.
Evaluate synthetic or manipulated text, image, audio, and video cautiously.
Use provenance and corroboration to verify digital material.
State uncertainty when authenticity cannot be established.
Avoid fabricated sources, quotations, editions, translators, and publication details.
Develop a sustained oral argument.
Synthesize complex evidence orally.
Respond to several counterarguments.
Qualify an oral claim accurately.
Reframe a question or disagreement productively.
Adapt a presentation for a specialist audience.
Adapt a presentation for a general audience.
Lead an academic seminar.
Frame a central seminar question.
Connect several participants’ contributions.
Distinguish disagreement over evidence, assumptions, method, and interpretation.
Challenge a critical claim with precision.
Identify unresolved questions.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a scholarly research argument.
Conduct advanced formal debate.
Use concession, qualification, and synthesis orally.
Conduct rhetorical criticism of a public speech.
Analyze text, delivery, occasion, audience, and circulation together.
Evaluate personal rhetoric, evidence, style, and audience effect.

Poetry Criticism—Shakespeare’s Sonnets and World Poets

22 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Analyze rhetoric within literary dialogue or narration.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Conduct poetry criticism.
Analyze Shakespeare’s sonnets critically.
Analyze canonical and world poets comparatively.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Cite editions and translators accurately.
Recite poetry and defend a critical interpretation.
Use poetry-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Hamlet—Major Tragedy and Critical Debate

20 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Analyze rhetoric within literary dialogue or narration.
Analyze persuasion within a soliloquy or dramatic speech.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Evaluate what a critical approach reveals and obscures.
Analyze a major Shakespearean tragedy with critical commentary.
Analyze major soliloquies, image patterns, rhetoric, and dramatic structure.
Compare critical interpretations of the tragedy.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a literary-critical interpretation.
Perform a major Shakespearean tragedy with interpretive control.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Apply an accessible theoretical approach cautiously.
Explain where the approach illuminates or limits interpretation.
Write sustained literary criticism.

World Drama and Drama Criticism

13 competencies

Compare competing critical interpretations.
Analyze how a literary work positions its reader or audience.
Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Analyze world drama and performance traditions.
Conduct drama criticism.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Perform and analyze world drama.
Use drama-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

13 competencies

Analyze rhetoric and form together.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible ethical or reader-response approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Analyze epic influence and reception.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Synthesize scholarly and primary sources.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a literary-critical interpretation.
Use epic-reception terminology accurately.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.

Canonical and World Novels, Essays, Speeches, and the Grade 11 Critical Portfolio

32 competencies

Distinguish close reading, interpretation, criticism, theory, and scholarship.
Evaluate a literary-critical claim.
Evaluate the critic’s use of textual evidence.
Compare competing critical interpretations.
Develop a critically informed independent position.
Apply an accessible historical or cultural approach.
Apply an accessible feminist, materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, archetypal, or structural question where appropriate.
Analyze canonical and world novels using criticism.
Analyze canonical essays and speeches through rhetorical criticism.
Use criticism without surrendering independent textual judgment.
Produce a sustained critical interpretation supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Identify what a critical interpretation explains well.
Identify what an interpretation neglects or cannot explain.
Weigh interpretations by explanatory power and textual support.
Produce and defend a scholarly research project.
Deliver a critical lecture or analytical presentation.
Defend a scholarly research argument.
Conduct rhetorical criticism of a public speech.
Analyze text, delivery, occasion, audience, and circulation together.
Use novel-criticism terminology accurately.
Use rhetorical-criticism terminology accurately.
Analyze how translation choices affect meaning.
Formulate a critical literary thesis.
Conduct close reading across several passages.
Integrate critical commentary into literary analysis.
Evaluate a critic’s argument within the essay.
Develop an original critical position within a bounded scholarly conversation.
Write sustained literary criticism.
Write comparative criticism across poetry, drama, epic, or fiction.
Write a scholarly research paper.
Write a sophisticated narrative using voice, structure, ethical complexity, and reflection.
Edit and publish extended argument, criticism, comparative analysis, narrative, and scholarly research writing.