12th Grade ELA Course

How do our experiences and the world around us affect who we are and what we believe? 

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English Language Arts Standards - 11th-12th Grade (PDF)

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We investigate the importance of heroes, citing textual evidence to support our analysis of informational texts. We will then create support and arguments for our opinion on the essential question: What makes a hero?  

Having examined the qualities and impact of heroes, we now broaden our perspective to understand how texts about social reform ignite change and empower individuals within society. 

We explore texts on social reform, analyzing how central ideas interact and build on one another as we evaluate our understanding of the power of literary works on society. 

Moving from the impact of literary works on society, we now shift our focus inward to explore self-awareness. We'll consider how individuals define their identities and embark on the journey of self-discovery. 

We explore self-awareness by considering identity and how people discover who they are, analyzing how two or more central ideas about self-discovery interact and build on one another within informational texts.  

Having explored the individual journey of self-discovery, we now broaden our scope to understand how the past affects the future, examining the enduring influence of history on identity and society. 

We learn how the past affects the future, analyzing how two or more central ideas about the influence of history on the future interact and build on one another within informational texts.  

Building on our understanding of how the past shapes the future, we now explore an equally powerful catalyst for growth: changing our perspectives. By examining how different viewpoints interact, we discover what we gain when we look at the world anew. 

By examining how two or more central ideas about the impact of shifting viewpoints interact and build on one another within a wide range of literary and informational texts from diverse cultures and time periods we learn how a change in perspectives can help us grow.  

We use experiences and knowledge to describe the concept of "home," citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support our analysis of various informational texts. We analyze a case in which the author's or speaker's premises, claims, and evidence are challenged by other sources or in which multiple perspectives on a topic are presented. In small groups, we will then co-construct a statement articulating the feeling home inspires.