Life and Death: Objectives
After you have completed this unit, you will be able to:
- Read and understand analogies.
- Draw inferences such as predictions and support them from text.
- Use study strategies such as note-taking and using study-guide questions to better understand texts.
- Compose increasingly more involved sentences that contain gerunds, participles, and infinitives in their various functions.
- Compare and contrast varying aspects of texts such as themes and conflicts.
- Connect literature to historical contexts, current events, and his/her own experiences.
- Use writing as a tool for reflection, exploration, learning, problem solving, and personal growth.
- Speak responsibly to present accurate, truthful, and ethical messages.
- Choose valid evidence, proofs, or examples to support claims.