Virginia English Standards of Learning -- Grade 11

Reading/Literature

11.3 The student will read and analyze relationships among American literature, history, and culture.

Describe contributions of different cultures to the development of American literature.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  

Describe the development of American literature in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  

Contrast periods in American literature
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  

Differentiate among archetypal characters in American literature.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  

Describe the major themes in American literature.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  

Describe how use of context and language structures conveys an author's point of view in contemporary and historical essays, speeches, and critical reviews.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  
• Shakespeare PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/sha91/index.asp
  
• Building Language PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/law81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Use information from texts to clarify or refine understanding of academic concepts.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  
• Shakespeare PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/sha91/index.asp
  
• Building Language PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/law81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Read and follow directions to complete an application for college admission, a scholarship, or for employment.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  
• Shakespeare PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/sha91/index.asp
  
• Building Language PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/law81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Extend general and specialized vocabularies for reading and writing.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  
• Shakespeare PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/sha91/index.asp
  
• Building Language PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/law81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Generalize ideas from selections to make predictions about other texts.
• American Literary Voices Part 1 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/index.asp
  
• American Literary Voices Part 2 PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/index.asp
  
• From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/index.asp
  
• Shakespeare PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/sha91/index.asp
  
• Building Language PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/law81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from Beyond Books literature programs to help achieve this standard.
  

Analyze the poetic elements of classic poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Compare and contrast the ways in which poets inspire the reader to share emotions expressed in poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Paraphrase the meaning of selected poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Compare and contrast the ways in which poets inspire the reader to share emotions expressed in poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Paraphrase the meaning of selected poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Compare and contrast the works of contemporary and past American poets.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  

Compare and contrast the ways in which poets inspire the reader to share emotions expressed in poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  
• William Carlos Williams: Paterson Poet
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1d.asp
  
• Robert Frost: Feelings from New England
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1e.asp
  
• Poetry Beyond the Rhyme AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/4.asp
  
• Gertrude Stein Leads the Way
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/5a.asp
  
• Bearing Witness: The Harlem Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/6.asp
  
• 'On the Road' with Kerouac and the Beats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9f.asp
  
• Allen Ginsberg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/9g.asp
  
• Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and June Jordan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12h.asp
  
• Poets Laureate: Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13e.asp
  
• Maya Angelou 'The Pulse of Morning'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/13f.asp
  
• Ballads and Moor Monsters
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1.asp
  
• Beowulf
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1b.asp
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1c.asp
  
• The Canterbury Tales
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1d.asp
  
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1e.asp
  
• Ballads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1f.asp
  
• Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1g.asp
  
• Medieval Attitudes Toward Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1h.asp
  
• Workshop: Alliteration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/1i.asp
  
• The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2b.asp
  
• The Faerie Queene
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2c.asp
  
• 'The Vulgar Tongue' -- English Translations of the Bible
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2g.asp
  
• Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/3.asp
  
• Political and Social Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5.asp
  
• Robert Burns
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5a.asp
  
• William Blake
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5b.asp
  
• Blake's London
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/5c.asp
  
• The Romantic Poets AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6.asp
  
• Reform and Earnestness AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/7.asp
  
• Wuthering Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/8b.asp
  

Paraphrase the meaning of selected poems.
• Women's Perspectives
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1c.asp
  
• Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/1f.asp
  
• Transcendentalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2d.asp
  
• Native American Voices
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3a.asp
  
• Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3b.asp
  
• Poetry, Passion, and Beauty
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/4c.asp
  
• The Emergence of American Poetry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/6.asp
  
• Storm and Calm: Kate Chopin's Creole Folk
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/7c.asp
  
• Surmounting Cultural, Racial, and Gender Barriers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9.asp
  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Dilemma of Race
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9b.asp
  
• James Weldon Johnson -- One of God's Trombones
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/9c.asp
  
• Frances Ellen Harper
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10b.asp
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/10d.asp
  
• Humor in the Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11d.asp
  
• Children's Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/11e.asp
  
• The Early Moderns: Terror and Wonder in the 20th Century
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12.asp
  
• Carl Sandburg
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12c.asp
  
• Edgar Lee Masters: 'Spoon River Anthology'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12d.asp
  
• Sage and Seer: Robert Frost
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/12e.asp
  

Describe the relationship between farce and characterization.
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  

Describe the dramatic conventions or devices used by playwrights to present selected plays.
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  

Explain the use of monologue and soliloquy.
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp
  

Explain the use of verbal and dramatic irony.
• Early Popular Drama and Novels
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/2a.asp
  
• Writers for Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam11/3d.asp
  
• Thornton Wilder Our Town
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/1b.asp
  
• The Stage Is Set -- American Drama Flourishes AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/7.asp
  
• Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/lam12/12d.asp
  
• Renaissance, Reason, and Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2.asp
  
• Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/2h.asp
  
• Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4a.asp
  
• Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/4b.asp
  
• Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/leu11/6g.asp