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 * Enduring Understandings: **
 * Through analysis, readers can gain an understanding of how an author purposefully employs literary elements to reveal human truths and ideas beyond the literal level of the narrative.
 * Although the eras and places of fictions may differ, the goal of fiction to convey human experience is universal and timeless.
 * Writing is a tool for thinking: solving problems, exploring issues, constructing questions, and addressing inquiry (from: [] ), as well as self-expression.
 * Language enhances and identifies human beings as meaning-makers (from: [] )
 * Unit Titles: **
 * “Exploring Individual and Cultural Identity through //The Kite Runner//”
 * //“Hamlet// Wavered for Us All”
 * “Satire and Comedy: A Survey of Classic Humor”
 * “The Last Word – Employing Personal Style and Purposeful Organization in Graduation Speeches”
 * Key Competencies: Skills/Processes/Procedures: **
 * Analyze textual context to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or ambiguous words and to draw conclusions about nuances or connotations of words.
 * Identify, interpret, and analyze the author’s skill in employing literary devices in various genres (chiefly symbolism and irony).
 * Write with an understanding of style using a variety of sentence structures and descriptive word choices. Create tone and voice through the use of precise language.
 * Analyze, synthesize, and integrate data, creating a reasoned product that supports and appropriately illustrates inference and conclusions drawn from research.