Writing Summative Assessments—Grade 11

Unit 1 The Puritans: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The New Land, Upon the Burning of Our House, Witch Trial at Mount Holly Argument Writing (W.3)

For multiple choice and short answer/open-ended responses:

·  Speech analysis: rhetorical devices

Write an argument:

Unit 2 Romanticism: "The Devil and Tom Walker," William Cullen Bryant's poems,
Edgar Allan Poe - selected short story/poem Literary Analysis (W.9)

For multiple choice and short answer/open-ended responses:

·  “Romanticism” poem for analysis:

Write a literary analysis:

·  Research a contemporary song and create a power point presentation that demonstrates an analysis of the literary devices, structure and Romantic characteristics within the song.

Unit 3 Transcendentalism: Walden (selected chapters), Emerson’s aphorisms, “Self-Reliance,” “The End of Solitude” by Deresiewiecz, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, selected poetry from Emily Dickinson Writing Informational Text

For multiple choice and short answer/open-ended responses:

·  Essay for analysis of purpose

Write an informational piece

·  Have students research and read a contemporary informational text regarding depression. Then, write a short paragraph comparing/contrasting how the literary elements function to advance the writer’s purpose in both Dickinson’s poem “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” or “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and the piece of their choice.

Unit 4 The American Dream: Hemingway's “In Another Country,” The Great Gatsby,
Obama Inaugural Address, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/ , “I Have a Dream,” Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” The Glass Menagerie Writing informative piece

For objective and short answer:

Write an informative piece:

·  Write a brief essay explaining how cultural influences affect the American dream within two or more of the required texts and the article “Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers” in order to address how the writer manipulates language to reveal his ideology.

Unit 5 Finding Success: The Catcher in the Rye, Tuesdays with Morrie, Hamlet (film and excerpts) Writing Narrative; Author’s purpose

For objective and short answer:

Writing:

·  Students will choose a character/symbol/literary device utilized throughout the novel and will complete an analysis. They will then share this analysis with the class as the class engages in discussion and takes notes. NEW text

·  Watch a youtube video of Steve Jobs’ commencement speech and David McCullough Jr.’s commencement speech. Then read the article “What if the Secret to Success is Failure.” Answer open-ended questions comparing the speakers’/writer’s purpose, how that purpose connects to themes from the unit, and how they use rhetoric and structure to advance their themes.

·  Write a college essay.

·  View a film version of Hamlet and then read (new) excerpts from the play. Then use a venn diagram to compare the techniques utilized in the two sources to create characterization. NEW text

Unit 6: Research Paper: Writing for extended time/purpose; writing argument

For objective and short answer:

·  Short non-fiction piece: ID claim, how to use citations…

Writing:

·  Write an organized research paper including in-text citations and works cited while utilizing research and analysis.