Grade 11 English III Course Outline
- To help students understand the importance of historic context in literary analysis.
- To expose students to a variety of literary genres to further their appreciation of literature.
- To develop students’ vocabulary-building skills through the use of context clues and word origin/structure analysis.
- To help students recognize and understand the use of a variety of literary elements (terms and techniques).
- To enable students to respond to literature in a way that reflects intelligent and thoughtful analysis.
- To develop students’ reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills so that they may function effectively in any course at university level.
- To help students create a body of written work (essay portfolio) that will facilitate the college application process.
- To provide a wide range of learning opportunities, including daily and longer-term projects, in order that students of all ability levels may be able to reach their respective potentials and be successful.
- To foster a classroom atmosphere that emphasizes the importance of respect for others’ opinions, beliefs and ways of being.
Objectives:
- The student will review and practice grammar and punctuation.
- The student will develop vocabulary.
- The student will practice different types of essay writing.
- The student will read critically, informatively, and for pleasure.
Reading literature and informational texts:
- vocabulary
- poetry
- short stories
- drama: Macbeth, Oedipus Rex and Antigone
- novel: The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, and The Awakening
- non-fiction essays and speeches
Writing:
- sentence structure
- literary anaylsis essay
- research-based essay
Speaking and Listening:
- novel: Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein
- non-fiction essays
Writing:
- sentence structure
- creative writing
- analysis essays
Speaking and Listening:
- presentations
Language Usage:
- writing and editing strategies parts of speech
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introduction
- Course Description
- Understanding Plagiarism
- Pretest
- Assignment: Pretest
- MLA Formatting MSWord 2007
- MLA Documentation updates
- MLA Citation
- MLA Incorporating Sources
- Writing about Literature
Language: Logic & Consistency
- Using the Right Words
- Write your own Sentence #1
- Worksheet: Write Your Own Sentence
- Write your own Sentence #2
- Write your own Sentence #3
- Pronoun Reference
- Assignment: Pronoun reference
- Dangling modifiers
- Worksheet: Modifiers
- Subordination & Coordination
- Assignment: Subordination & Coordination
- Parallel Structure
- Assignment: Parallel structure
Writing: Punctuation review
- Punctuation Review
- Worksheet: Punctuation Review
Reading Strategies
- Reading Strategies
- How to Study and Active Reading
- Study Different Materials
- Whole Subject Documents
Writing: Transitional Devices
- Connecting Words
- Transition Words
- Assignment: Lesson 5 – Transitional Devices
- Worksheet: Transitional Words Worksheet
- Avoid Comma Splices
- Semicolons
- Dependent or Subordinate Clause
Puritan Influence
- Puritain legacy
- Assignment: Puritan Influence on American Literature
- Salem Witch Trials
- Assignment: Witch trial letter
- Essay: Witch trial evidence review
- The Crucible
- Handout: The Crucible Study Questions
- Handout: The Crucible
- Assignment: The Crucible Study Questions
- Arthur Miller
- Interpreting Quotations
- Handout: Interpreting Quotations
- Assignment: Interpreting Quotations
- A variation on the topic
- “Half-hanged Mary”
- Assignment: The Crucible Poem
- Worksheet: “Half-hanged Mary”
- Literary Analysis
- Handout: Literary Anaylsis outline
- Assignment: Literary Analysis Outline
- Assignment: Rough draft
- Essay: Final Draft
- Handout: Crucible Exam
- Assignment: Crucible Exam
Research Papers
- Making Connections
- Thesis Statements
- Guide to Writing Research Paper
- Requirements
- Procedure
- Citation Formats
- Thesis Statement/Outline
- Sample Outline
- Previewing, Skimming, Reading
- Typing the Report
- Citing Sources
- Paraphrasing
- Plagiarism
- Standard Written English
- Helpful Hints
- McCarthyism links
- Assignment: First Draft
- Essay: Final Draft
Writing: Editing Strategies
- Editing Strategies
- Proofreading
- Organization
- Usage and Sentence Structure
- Spelling
- Worksheet: Editing Strategies Worksheet
Analytical Writing Rubric
- Six Traits Analytical Writing Rubric
- Worksheet: Analytical Writing Rubric Comprehension
Romanticism
- Romanticism
- Handout: Romanticism notes
- Assignment: Romanticism quiz
- Walt Whitman
- Assignment: Whitman & Me Scrapbook
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
- Handout: Scarlet Letter Reading Guide
- Worksheet: Scarlet Letter Review
- Scarlet Letter Characters
- Scarlet Letter Themes
- Scarlet Letter: Chapter 12 activity
- Essay: Chapter 12 essay
- Symbolism Poster
- Assignment: Symbolism poster
- Scarlet Letter Final Assessment
- Handout: Literary Analysis
- Essay: Final Assessment
- Transcendentalism
- Handout: Transcendentalism notes
- Civil Disobedience
- Civil Disobedience: Rhetoric
- Handout: Civil Disobedience questions
- Assignment: Civil Disobedience questions
- Midtest
- Assignment: Midtest
- Worksheet: Civil Disobedience worksheet
Listening Comprehension
- Listening and Evaluating
- Assignment: Listening Comprehension Assignment
Non Verbal Communication
- Non Verbal Communication
- Assignment: Non-Verbal Communication Assignment
Language: Style & Variety
- Language Evolution
- Assignment: Split Infinitives
- Playing with Style
- Assignment: Reading Guide
- Essay: Fable Re-writes
Realism & Naturalism
- Realism & Naturalism
- Handout: Realism &Naturalsim
- Assignment: Realism & Naturalism
- Women’s Suffrage
- Assignment: Women’s Suffrage
- Women’s Roles at the Turn of the Century
- Essay: Women’s Roles
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Handout: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Worksheet: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Assignment: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Kate Chopin
- Handout: The Awakening
- Essay: The Awakening
- Susan Glaspell
- Worksheet: Trifles
- Essay: Trifles comparison
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Worksheet: The Revolt of Mother Worksheet
- Final Assessment
- Handout: Literary Analysis Outline
- Essay: Final Assessment
Modernism
- Modernism
- Assignment: Modernism quiz
- Life in the 1920s
- Assignment: Life in the 1920s reflection
- Robert Frost
- Assignment: Reading Robert Frost
- Assignment: Poem Presentation
- Assignment: Audio
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Assignment: Harlem Renaissance quiz
- Assignment: Langston Hughes
- The Great Gatsby
- Gatsby Activities
- Handout: Gatsby Study Questions
- Handout: Gatsby Final Assessment Handout
- Essay: Gatsby: Reading Strategies
- Assignment: Gatsby Study Questions
- Essay: Character Essay
- Final Assessment
- Essay: Final Assessment
Minority Literature
- Other Voices in American Literature
- Other Voices assignment #1
- Essay: Assignment 1
- Other Voices assignment #2
- Assignment: Assignment 2
- Other Voices assignment #3
- Assignment: Assignment 3
- Native American Literature links
- Latino American Literature links
- Asian American Literature links
- African American Literature links
- Post-test
- Assignment: Post-test
Course Survey
- Course Survey
- Handout: Course Survey
- Assignment: Course Survey
