Unit 1:

Building Advanced Lit Skills

 

Start your year building the advanced English skills necessary for Advanced and Pre-Advanced literary analysis. This 90+ page guide presents a three week unit in skill building and assessment including poetry analysis, oral presentation, literary terms and analysis, prose skills in analyzing fiction and non-fiction, an extended analysis of a short story, and writing the informative and persuasive essay. Students will emerge from this unit with close reading, critical thinking, and composition skills.