Language, Style & Conventions — Chapter overview · English 11: American Voices, Identity & Public Memory, Grade 11
Finish Gatsby and refine syntax, conventions, vocabulary, and language/register choices. Submit sixteen explained language and editing entries drawn from your own writing.
Chapter question
How can language, style & conventions help us examine american voices, identity & public memory?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 7.1 · Advanced Syntax & Style
I can build varied, sophisticated sentence structures — using subordination, cumulative and periodic sentences, and parallelism — for rhetorical effect.
- Unit 7.2 · Conventions & Usage
I can use advanced punctuation — restrictive versus nonrestrictive commas, colons, and em dashes — to make my meaning exact.
- Unit 7.3 · Vocabulary & Word Analysis
I can break unfamiliar words into roots and affixes to unlock their meaning and whole families of related words.
- Unit 7.4 · Language Change & Variation
I can explain that usage is a matter of convention that changes over time and is sometimes contested, rather than a fixed set of natural laws.