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Grade 12 English & Literature.

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175competencies

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Textbook 1Authorial Command, Advanced Revision, and Editing

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Grammar and Syntax as Authorial Choice

Chapter 2

Voice, Diction, and Register

Chapter 3

Structural and Developmental Revision

Chapter 4

Editing Other Writers’ Prose

Textbook 2Independent Critical Reading and Evaluation of Scholarship

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Entry into an Unfamiliar Text

Chapter 2

Evaluating Scholarly Arguments

Chapter 3

Mapping a Research or Critical Debate

Chapter 4

Independent Critical Position

Textbook 3Original Argument, Comparative Analysis, and Command of Writing Modes

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Original Argument

Chapter 2

Independent Literary Criticism

Chapter 3

Sophisticated Comparative Analysis

Chapter 4

Narrative, Explanation, and Public Writing

Textbook 4Extended Research Thesis—Question, Research Base, Method, and Documentation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Research Design and Proposal

Chapter 2

Constructing the Research Base

Chapter 3

Analysis, Synthesis, and Documentation

Chapter 4

Thesis Completion and Defense

Textbook 5Civic Media Literacy, Public Rhetoric, Debate, and Oral Defense

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Civic Information and Public Claims

Chapter 2

Verification, Synthetic Media, and Responsible Correction

Chapter 3

Comparative Public Rhetoric and Debate

Chapter 4

Oral Command and Thesis Defense

Textbook 6Independent Poetry Criticism and Comparative World Poetry

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Close Reading of a Poetic Sequence

Chapter 2

Translation and World Poetry

Chapter 3

Comparative World Poetry

Chapter 4

Poetry Seminar and Public Interpretation

Textbook 7Comparative Drama—Shakespeare, Modern Drama, and World Performance

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Comparative Dramatic Question

Chapter 2

Shakespeare in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 3

Modern and World Performance

Chapter 4

Independent Drama Criticism

Textbook 8Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Epic, Memory, and Public Identity

Chapter 2

Rewriting Heroism

Chapter 3

Exile, Empire, Homecoming, and Memory

Chapter 4

Epic across Media and Genres

Textbook 9Comparative World Fiction and Independent Novel Criticism

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Novel Criticism

Chapter 2

Translation, Context, and World Fiction

Chapter 3

Comparative World Fiction

Chapter 4

Short Fiction and Narrative Experiment

Textbook 10Comparative Rhetoric, Essays, Speeches, Thesis Defense, and Graduate Portfolio

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Comparative Rhetorical Traditions

Chapter 2

Essays, Public Letters, and Intellectual Voice

Chapter 3

Thesis Defense and Public Communication

Chapter 4

Grade 12 Graduate Portfolio

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Every competency, covered.

The 175 competencies set for Grade 12 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Authorial Command, Advanced Revision, and Editing

31 competencies

Select sentence structure independently according to meaning and rhetorical purpose.
Use simple syntax deliberately for force, clarity, or contrast.
Use complex syntax deliberately for development and qualification.
Use periodic, cumulative, balanced, and antithetical structures appropriately.
Control pacing and emphasis through syntax.
Use deliberate fragments and interruptions without creating confusion.
Control punctuation according to grammatical and rhetorical purpose.
Select diction independently for precision, tone, audience, and register.
Maintain register consistency within an extended work.
Shift register deliberately where genre or audience requires it.
Use qualification and hedging according to evidence.
Create cohesion across a long composition.
Control section structure and transitions independently.
Edit prose for grammar, syntax, diction, clarity, rhythm, and coherence.
Diagnose structural and sentence-level weaknesses in another writer’s prose.
Provide constructive revision recommendations.
Preserve another writer’s meaning and voice while improving clarity.
Conduct a structural edit.
Conduct a paragraph and cohesion edit.
Conduct a sentence and diction edit.
Conduct a citation and final-proofreading audit.
Exercise full secondary-school command of grammar and syntax as authorial choices.
Use an extensive academic vocabulary accurately.
Select diction deliberately for argument, criticism, research, narrative, and public rhetoric.
Distinguish subtle differences among near-synonyms.
Distinguish levels of certainty and confidence.
Analyze historical, cultural, ideological, legal, political, philosophical, and disciplinary connotations.
Recognize when technical terminology clarifies.
Recognize when jargon obscures weak reasoning.
Edit vocabulary for precision, nuance, register, and readability.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.

Independent Critical Reading and Evaluation of Scholarship

34 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Recognize the limits of a critical method.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Select an appropriate strategy for an unfamiliar complex text.
Identify a text’s central question or problem independently.
Identify argument, structure, method, evidence, assumptions, scope, and implications.
Interpret unfamiliar literary language independently with appropriate contextual research.
Analyze unfamiliar scholarly arguments at an accessible pre-university level.
Construct a map of a scholarly or critical debate.
Identify consensus, disagreement, revision, and unresolved questions.
Compare scholarly definitions and methods.
Evaluate the relevance and quality of evidence used by scholars.
Evaluate whether a method fits the research or interpretive question.
Evaluate explanatory power.
Evaluate scope and limitations.
Evaluate responsiveness to counterevidence.
Evaluate whether a critic represents the primary text fairly.
Synthesize a substantial but bounded research base.
Preserve meaningful disagreement within synthesis.
Formulate an independent critical conclusion.
Qualify conclusions according to evidence.
State what cannot yet be concluded.
Revise a critical position when stronger evidence requires it.
Evaluate personal reading assumptions and blind spots.
Evaluate scholarly, public, institutional, and primary sources.
Evaluate method, authority, evidence, context, scope, and limitation.
Identify scholarly consensus and debate.
Analyze how a source defines key terms.
Compare competing definitions across a research base.
Use etymology where it materially improves interpretation.
Infer unfamiliar terminology independently.
Demonstrate deep word knowledge and an independent strategy for continued vocabulary growth.

Original Argument, Comparative Analysis, and Command of Writing Modes

33 competencies

Move appropriately among conversational, formal, academic, critical, narrative, and public registers.
Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Select a suitable primary-text corpus.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Distinguish interpretation, criticism, theory, method, evidence, and ideology.
Evaluate scope and limitations.
Formulate an independent critical conclusion.
Transfer critical-reading methods to unfamiliar public and professional texts.
Explain a complex text accurately to a non-specialist audience.
Use an extensive literary and critical vocabulary accurately.
Formulate an original and significant argumentative question.
Develop a precise, qualified, and defensible thesis.
Define key terms and scope.
Design an extended structure independently.
Sustain an original argument across a long composition.
Integrate substantial counterarguments.
Evaluate competing evidence and interpretations.
Address limits, exceptions, and implications.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.
Write an original literary-critical thesis.
Conduct independent close reading across a complete work or comparative corpus.
Integrate criticism and theory without surrendering independent judgment.
Evaluate competing critical positions.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.
Explain the method or critical approach used.
Write sophisticated narrative or creative nonfiction with structural and stylistic command.

Extended Research Thesis—Question, Research Base, Method, and Documentation

25 competencies

Integrate primary, secondary, theoretical, historical, visual, and media evidence grammatically.
Distinguish the student’s voice from the voices of sources.
Formulate an independent extended research question.
Conduct preliminary research and refine the question.
Design a research plan and timeline.
Identify the source types and evidence required.
Construct a balanced research base.
Evaluate scholarly, public, institutional, and primary sources.
Evaluate method, authority, evidence, context, scope, and limitation.
Identify scholarly consensus and debate.
Write a substantial source review.
Organize research by question, claim, method, or finding.
Use disciplinary citation consistently.
Cite prose, data, visual, audio, video, and digital sources.
Conduct a citation and evidence-representation audit.
Produce an independently researched and fully documented extended paper or thesis.
Defend research findings, methods, limitations, and ethical decisions.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Verify meaning through suitable scholarly or specialist reference sources.
Maintain an independent vocabulary and concept record during extended inquiry.
Construct and synthesize a research base.
Produce an extended research paper or thesis.
Document all source use fully.
Discuss limitations and future questions.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.

Civic Media Literacy, Public Rhetoric, Debate, and Oral Defense

28 competencies

Verify public claims through provenance and corroboration.
Evaluate civic information according to evidence, funding, ownership, incentives, and distribution.
Analyze political, institutional, commercial, and advocacy rhetoric responsibly.
Evaluate synthetic or manipulated media while stating uncertainty.
Distinguish genuine controversy from manufactured controversy in supported cases.
Correct misinformation proportionately and responsibly.
Communicate confidence and uncertainty accurately.
Design a formal speech or presentation independently.
Explain complex ideas accurately to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Sustain an extended oral argument.
Synthesize evidence and scholarship orally.
Attribute evidence accurately in speech.
Manage qualification, uncertainty, and limitation orally.
Respond to challenging questions directly and responsibly.
Revise a claim during discussion when warranted.
Lead a formal seminar.
Frame productive discussion questions.
Connect and synthesize participants’ positions.
Identify hidden assumptions and sources of disagreement.
Reframe an unproductive disagreement.
Conduct formal debate with command.
Develop constructive case, counterargument, rebuttal, refutation, and closing synthesis.
Use rhetoric ethically.
Evaluate argument, evidence, rhetoric, delivery, and audience impact.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Conduct high-level comparative rhetorical analysis orally.
Demonstrate command of formal speaking, debate, and discussion.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.

Independent Poetry Criticism and Comparative World Poetry

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Conduct independent poetry criticism.
Compare poetry across languages, cultures, forms, and periods.
Evaluate translation choices in poetry.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Maintain complete notes, source records, editions, and translator information.
Deliver a literary-critical lecture.
Perform and interpret poetry or drama at an advanced secondary level.
Use translation-sensitive vocabulary analysis.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Comparative Drama—Shakespeare, Modern Drama, and World Performance

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Evaluate critical and theoretical approaches.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Analyze adaptation and performance as interpretation.
Analyze comparative modern and world drama.
Analyze performance traditions comparatively.
Compare Shakespeare with another dramatic tradition or later dramatic work.
Conduct independent drama criticism.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Perform and interpret poetry or drama at an advanced secondary level.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

15 competencies

Evaluate critical and theoretical approaches.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Analyze adaptation and performance as interpretation.
Analyze epic influence, reception, and revision comparatively.
Analyze how later works challenge or revise heroic traditions.
Conduct comparative criticism of long narratives.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Formulate an independent extended research question.
Conduct preliminary research and refine the question.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.
Design an independent extended research project.

Comparative World Fiction and Independent Novel Criticism

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Conduct independent criticism of world fiction.
Compare novels or short fiction across traditions.
Analyze narrative form, style, history, translation, and reception together.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Use translation-sensitive vocabulary analysis.
Write an original literary-critical thesis.
Conduct independent close reading across a complete work or comparative corpus.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Comparative Rhetoric, Essays, Speeches, Thesis Defense, and Graduate Portfolio

36 competencies

Use complex syntax deliberately for development and qualification.
Edit prose for grammar, syntax, diction, clarity, rhythm, and coherence.
Conduct a citation and final-proofreading audit.
Exercise full secondary-school command of grammar and syntax as authorial choices.
Analyze rhetoric at a high level.
Compare rhetorical traditions across cultures and media.
Evaluate rhetorical criticism.
Explain how the Grade 1–12 literary canon has developed and changed in complexity.
Articulate a personal but reasoned approach to lifelong literary reading.
Analyze unfamiliar rhetorical and informational texts.
Conduct a citation and evidence-representation audit.
Disclose significant assistance transparently.
Avoid fabrication, misquotation, and misleading paraphrase.
Defend research findings, methods, limitations, and ethical decisions.
Analyze audience, occasion, purpose, and constraints independently.
Design a formal speech or presentation independently.
Explain complex ideas accurately to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Sustain an extended oral argument.
Synthesize evidence and scholarship orally.
Attribute evidence accurately in speech.
Manage qualification, uncertainty, and limitation orally.
Respond to challenging questions directly and responsibly.
Revise a claim during discussion when warranted.
Evaluate argument, evidence, rhetoric, delivery, and audience impact.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Conduct high-level comparative rhetorical analysis orally.
Demonstrate command of formal speaking, debate, and discussion.
Explain specialized terminology to a general audience.
Formulate an original and significant argumentative question.
Develop a precise, qualified, and defensible thesis.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.
Produce an extended research paper or thesis.
Discuss limitations and future questions.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.
Edit another writer’s work constructively.
Produce polished, publishable-quality senior-school prose.

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Textbook 1Authorial Command, Advanced Revision, and Editing

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Grammar and Syntax as Authorial Choice

Chapter 2

Voice, Diction, and Register

Chapter 3

Structural and Developmental Revision

Chapter 4

Editing Other Writers’ Prose

Textbook 2Independent Critical Reading and Evaluation of Scholarship

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Entry into an Unfamiliar Text

Chapter 2

Evaluating Scholarly Arguments

Chapter 3

Mapping a Research or Critical Debate

Chapter 4

Independent Critical Position

Textbook 3Original Argument, Comparative Analysis, and Command of Writing Modes

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Original Argument

Chapter 2

Independent Literary Criticism

Chapter 3

Sophisticated Comparative Analysis

Chapter 4

Narrative, Explanation, and Public Writing

Textbook 4Extended Research Thesis—Question, Research Base, Method, and Documentation

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Research Design and Proposal

Chapter 2

Constructing the Research Base

Chapter 3

Analysis, Synthesis, and Documentation

Chapter 4

Thesis Completion and Defense

Textbook 5Civic Media Literacy, Public Rhetoric, Debate, and Oral Defense

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Civic Information and Public Claims

Chapter 2

Verification, Synthetic Media, and Responsible Correction

Chapter 3

Comparative Public Rhetoric and Debate

Chapter 4

Oral Command and Thesis Defense

Textbook 6Independent Poetry Criticism and Comparative World Poetry

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Close Reading of a Poetic Sequence

Chapter 2

Translation and World Poetry

Chapter 3

Comparative World Poetry

Chapter 4

Poetry Seminar and Public Interpretation

Textbook 7Comparative Drama—Shakespeare, Modern Drama, and World Performance

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Comparative Dramatic Question

Chapter 2

Shakespeare in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 3

Modern and World Performance

Chapter 4

Independent Drama Criticism

Textbook 8Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Epic, Memory, and Public Identity

Chapter 2

Rewriting Heroism

Chapter 3

Exile, Empire, Homecoming, and Memory

Chapter 4

Epic across Media and Genres

Textbook 9Comparative World Fiction and Independent Novel Criticism

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Independent Novel Criticism

Chapter 2

Translation, Context, and World Fiction

Chapter 3

Comparative World Fiction

Chapter 4

Short Fiction and Narrative Experiment

Textbook 10Comparative Rhetoric, Essays, Speeches, Thesis Defense, and Graduate Portfolio

4 chapters · 25 lessons

Chapter 1

Comparative Rhetorical Traditions

Chapter 2

Essays, Public Letters, and Intellectual Voice

Chapter 3

Thesis Defense and Public Communication

Chapter 4

Grade 12 Graduate Portfolio

Every competency, covered.

The 175 competencies set for Grade 12 English & Literature, and every one has lessons behind it.

Authorial Command, Advanced Revision, and Editing

31 competencies

Select sentence structure independently according to meaning and rhetorical purpose.
Use simple syntax deliberately for force, clarity, or contrast.
Use complex syntax deliberately for development and qualification.
Use periodic, cumulative, balanced, and antithetical structures appropriately.
Control pacing and emphasis through syntax.
Use deliberate fragments and interruptions without creating confusion.
Control punctuation according to grammatical and rhetorical purpose.
Select diction independently for precision, tone, audience, and register.
Maintain register consistency within an extended work.
Shift register deliberately where genre or audience requires it.
Use qualification and hedging according to evidence.
Create cohesion across a long composition.
Control section structure and transitions independently.
Edit prose for grammar, syntax, diction, clarity, rhythm, and coherence.
Diagnose structural and sentence-level weaknesses in another writer’s prose.
Provide constructive revision recommendations.
Preserve another writer’s meaning and voice while improving clarity.
Conduct a structural edit.
Conduct a paragraph and cohesion edit.
Conduct a sentence and diction edit.
Conduct a citation and final-proofreading audit.
Exercise full secondary-school command of grammar and syntax as authorial choices.
Use an extensive academic vocabulary accurately.
Select diction deliberately for argument, criticism, research, narrative, and public rhetoric.
Distinguish subtle differences among near-synonyms.
Distinguish levels of certainty and confidence.
Analyze historical, cultural, ideological, legal, political, philosophical, and disciplinary connotations.
Recognize when technical terminology clarifies.
Recognize when jargon obscures weak reasoning.
Edit vocabulary for precision, nuance, register, and readability.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.

Independent Critical Reading and Evaluation of Scholarship

34 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Recognize the limits of a critical method.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Select an appropriate strategy for an unfamiliar complex text.
Identify a text’s central question or problem independently.
Identify argument, structure, method, evidence, assumptions, scope, and implications.
Interpret unfamiliar literary language independently with appropriate contextual research.
Analyze unfamiliar scholarly arguments at an accessible pre-university level.
Construct a map of a scholarly or critical debate.
Identify consensus, disagreement, revision, and unresolved questions.
Compare scholarly definitions and methods.
Evaluate the relevance and quality of evidence used by scholars.
Evaluate whether a method fits the research or interpretive question.
Evaluate explanatory power.
Evaluate scope and limitations.
Evaluate responsiveness to counterevidence.
Evaluate whether a critic represents the primary text fairly.
Synthesize a substantial but bounded research base.
Preserve meaningful disagreement within synthesis.
Formulate an independent critical conclusion.
Qualify conclusions according to evidence.
State what cannot yet be concluded.
Revise a critical position when stronger evidence requires it.
Evaluate personal reading assumptions and blind spots.
Evaluate scholarly, public, institutional, and primary sources.
Evaluate method, authority, evidence, context, scope, and limitation.
Identify scholarly consensus and debate.
Analyze how a source defines key terms.
Compare competing definitions across a research base.
Use etymology where it materially improves interpretation.
Infer unfamiliar terminology independently.
Demonstrate deep word knowledge and an independent strategy for continued vocabulary growth.

Original Argument, Comparative Analysis, and Command of Writing Modes

33 competencies

Move appropriately among conversational, formal, academic, critical, narrative, and public registers.
Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Select a suitable primary-text corpus.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Distinguish interpretation, criticism, theory, method, evidence, and ideology.
Evaluate scope and limitations.
Formulate an independent critical conclusion.
Transfer critical-reading methods to unfamiliar public and professional texts.
Explain a complex text accurately to a non-specialist audience.
Use an extensive literary and critical vocabulary accurately.
Formulate an original and significant argumentative question.
Develop a precise, qualified, and defensible thesis.
Define key terms and scope.
Design an extended structure independently.
Sustain an original argument across a long composition.
Integrate substantial counterarguments.
Evaluate competing evidence and interpretations.
Address limits, exceptions, and implications.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.
Write an original literary-critical thesis.
Conduct independent close reading across a complete work or comparative corpus.
Integrate criticism and theory without surrendering independent judgment.
Evaluate competing critical positions.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.
Explain the method or critical approach used.
Write sophisticated narrative or creative nonfiction with structural and stylistic command.

Extended Research Thesis—Question, Research Base, Method, and Documentation

25 competencies

Integrate primary, secondary, theoretical, historical, visual, and media evidence grammatically.
Distinguish the student’s voice from the voices of sources.
Formulate an independent extended research question.
Conduct preliminary research and refine the question.
Design a research plan and timeline.
Identify the source types and evidence required.
Construct a balanced research base.
Evaluate scholarly, public, institutional, and primary sources.
Evaluate method, authority, evidence, context, scope, and limitation.
Identify scholarly consensus and debate.
Write a substantial source review.
Organize research by question, claim, method, or finding.
Use disciplinary citation consistently.
Cite prose, data, visual, audio, video, and digital sources.
Conduct a citation and evidence-representation audit.
Produce an independently researched and fully documented extended paper or thesis.
Defend research findings, methods, limitations, and ethical decisions.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Verify meaning through suitable scholarly or specialist reference sources.
Maintain an independent vocabulary and concept record during extended inquiry.
Construct and synthesize a research base.
Produce an extended research paper or thesis.
Document all source use fully.
Discuss limitations and future questions.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.

Civic Media Literacy, Public Rhetoric, Debate, and Oral Defense

28 competencies

Verify public claims through provenance and corroboration.
Evaluate civic information according to evidence, funding, ownership, incentives, and distribution.
Analyze political, institutional, commercial, and advocacy rhetoric responsibly.
Evaluate synthetic or manipulated media while stating uncertainty.
Distinguish genuine controversy from manufactured controversy in supported cases.
Correct misinformation proportionately and responsibly.
Communicate confidence and uncertainty accurately.
Design a formal speech or presentation independently.
Explain complex ideas accurately to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Sustain an extended oral argument.
Synthesize evidence and scholarship orally.
Attribute evidence accurately in speech.
Manage qualification, uncertainty, and limitation orally.
Respond to challenging questions directly and responsibly.
Revise a claim during discussion when warranted.
Lead a formal seminar.
Frame productive discussion questions.
Connect and synthesize participants’ positions.
Identify hidden assumptions and sources of disagreement.
Reframe an unproductive disagreement.
Conduct formal debate with command.
Develop constructive case, counterargument, rebuttal, refutation, and closing synthesis.
Use rhetoric ethically.
Evaluate argument, evidence, rhetoric, delivery, and audience impact.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Conduct high-level comparative rhetorical analysis orally.
Demonstrate command of formal speaking, debate, and discussion.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.

Independent Poetry Criticism and Comparative World Poetry

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Conduct independent poetry criticism.
Compare poetry across languages, cultures, forms, and periods.
Evaluate translation choices in poetry.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Maintain complete notes, source records, editions, and translator information.
Deliver a literary-critical lecture.
Perform and interpret poetry or drama at an advanced secondary level.
Use translation-sensitive vocabulary analysis.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Comparative Drama—Shakespeare, Modern Drama, and World Performance

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Evaluate critical and theoretical approaches.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Analyze adaptation and performance as interpretation.
Analyze comparative modern and world drama.
Analyze performance traditions comparatively.
Compare Shakespeare with another dramatic tradition or later dramatic work.
Conduct independent drama criticism.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Perform and interpret poetry or drama at an advanced secondary level.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Epic Influence, Reception, and Comparative Long Narrative

15 competencies

Evaluate critical and theoretical approaches.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Analyze adaptation and performance as interpretation.
Analyze epic influence, reception, and revision comparatively.
Analyze how later works challenge or revise heroic traditions.
Conduct comparative criticism of long narratives.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Formulate an independent extended research question.
Conduct preliminary research and refine the question.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.
Design an independent extended research project.

Comparative World Fiction and Independent Novel Criticism

20 competencies

Formulate an independent literary-critical question.
Conduct independent close reading.
Integrate criticism, theory, context, and textual evidence.
Develop an independent critical argument.
Compare critical traditions or interpretations.
Analyze translation and edition as interpretive factors.
Conduct independent criticism of world fiction.
Compare novels or short fiction across traditions.
Analyze narrative form, style, history, translation, and reception together.
Defend a sophisticated interpretation while acknowledging alternatives.
Produce independent literary criticism supported by primary and secondary evidence.
Defend a comparative interpretation.
Use translation-sensitive vocabulary analysis.
Write an original literary-critical thesis.
Conduct independent close reading across a complete work or comparative corpus.
Write independent literary criticism.
Formulate a focused comparative-world-literature question.
Compare substantial works from different traditions responsibly.
Integrate form, style, context, translation, reception, and criticism where relevant.
Write sophisticated comparative criticism.

Comparative Rhetoric, Essays, Speeches, Thesis Defense, and Graduate Portfolio

36 competencies

Use complex syntax deliberately for development and qualification.
Edit prose for grammar, syntax, diction, clarity, rhythm, and coherence.
Conduct a citation and final-proofreading audit.
Exercise full secondary-school command of grammar and syntax as authorial choices.
Analyze rhetoric at a high level.
Compare rhetorical traditions across cultures and media.
Evaluate rhetorical criticism.
Explain how the Grade 1–12 literary canon has developed and changed in complexity.
Articulate a personal but reasoned approach to lifelong literary reading.
Analyze unfamiliar rhetorical and informational texts.
Conduct a citation and evidence-representation audit.
Disclose significant assistance transparently.
Avoid fabrication, misquotation, and misleading paraphrase.
Defend research findings, methods, limitations, and ethical decisions.
Analyze audience, occasion, purpose, and constraints independently.
Design a formal speech or presentation independently.
Explain complex ideas accurately to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Sustain an extended oral argument.
Synthesize evidence and scholarship orally.
Attribute evidence accurately in speech.
Manage qualification, uncertainty, and limitation orally.
Respond to challenging questions directly and responsibly.
Revise a claim during discussion when warranted.
Evaluate argument, evidence, rhetoric, delivery, and audience impact.
Defend an extended research thesis.
Conduct high-level comparative rhetorical analysis orally.
Demonstrate command of formal speaking, debate, and discussion.
Explain specialized terminology to a general audience.
Formulate an original and significant argumentative question.
Develop a precise, qualified, and defensible thesis.
Adapt argument to a selected audience.
Produce an extended research paper or thesis.
Discuss limitations and future questions.
Revise independently through structural, analytical, stylistic, and citation stages.
Edit another writer’s work constructively.
Produce polished, publishable-quality senior-school prose.