SCOS Objectives….in REAL words you can understand
11th grade English
North Iredell High School
Below are the objectives that we will spend our year focusing on to ensure
that your student will find success in English class.
1.02 You will read many texts and give a personal response to these texts.
1.03 You will read, listen to and view expressive texts so that you can respond to
these texts by drawing conclusions, establishing relationships to other works, and
identifying historical or cultural influences on the texts.
2.01 You will be able to research and discuss events in US history as they relate
to US literature.
3.02 You will be able to select an issue or theme and argue for or against it based
on the different viewpoints of American literature.
3.04 You are going to read both print and non-print texts that argue a point and
demonstrate your comprehension of these texts by using quotations as well as your
own words to make connections between works, evaluate the author’s techniques,
and to identify main ideas.
4.01 You will use literary elements (such as plot, point of view, characterization)
and figures of speech (such as personification and alliteration) to interpret
meaning of a text.
5.01 You will study literary movements of United States and demonstrate your
understanding why pieces of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry fit into these
movements.
5.02 You will read many United States authors and compare their works to their
own experiences.
6.01 You will learn vocabulary that will better prepare you for the SAT, as well as
to use more context clues to interpret new words as well as to enhance your own
writing skills.
6.02 You will proofread and edit your own writing.