HSC 081 - Reading Fundamentals II

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
This course continues to lay the foundation required for high school English credit. Students will develop skills related to the reading of increasingly complex informational and literary texts with an emphasis placed on close critical reading. Students will also develop skills in argumentative, informative, and narrative writing in response to readings.
Recommended: HSC 080.
Course Outcomes:

Key Ideas and Details
- 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.
- Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Craft and Structure
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text.
- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes point clear, convincing, and engaging.
- 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 the text.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Course Topics:

Non-fiction, photographs, and memoirs
Text and graphs from the Bridge to English state-wide developed course for career and college readiness
Advanced language and literature (for high school honors English courses)
1. Reading the world - thinking about literacy, English class, analysis, and context
2. Thinking about rhetoric and argument - effective argumentative claims, rhetorical situations, appeals, using evidence, counterarguments, pitfalls and vulnerabilities (logical fallacies), language, and style
3. Thinking about synthesis - single source and multiple sources
Themes
1. Identity and society
2. Ambition and restraint
3. Ethics
4. Cultures in conflict
5. (Mis)Communication