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This course differs from other English classes, in that its focus is more on non-fiction and informational text, rather than on fiction and literary analysis. Composition units will concentrate on crafting and ultimately answering complex multiple-choice questions, in addition to examining different aims and modes in writing, annotation, close reading, semantics, structure, style, rhetorical analysis and the argumentative and synthesis essay. There is a summer reading and writing assignment to be completed prior to the first class.  \nEssential Understandings  \n• Reading a wide variety of literature and literacy nonfiction offers insights into the human condition and serves as models for students’ own thinking and writing.  \n• Writing is a means of asserting and defending claims, displaying knowledge, and conveying experiences and feelings. This ability to communicate is vital to career, college, and life experiences.  \nBrunswick Priority Standards and Performance Indicators  \n(as based on the Maine Learning Results)  \nP.S. ELA-1 Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.  \na. Notice and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in writing.  \nb. Demonstrate command of correct sentence structure and variety.  \nc. Apply standard usage to formal speaking and writing.  \nP.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.  \na. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses.  \nb. Interpret the implications of setting and circumstance.  \nc. Analyze the role of characters in the plot in oral and written responses.  \nd. Analyze important quotations from the text in oral and written responses.  \ne. Annotate the text.  \nP.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text.  \na. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone.  \nb. Analyze the plot and/or design of the text, following shifts in time and place.  \nBrunswick School Department English Language Arts  \nGrade 10 Advanced Placement Language and Composition  \nP.S ELA-4 Writing Analysis: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.  \na. Select and limit a debatable thesis.  \nb. Research evidence using credible sources.  \nc. 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