Online High School

Grade 12
English IV

Grade 12 English IV Course Outline (1.0 Credit)

✔ To help student 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 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

Writing:

  • sentence structure
  • creative writing
  • analysis essays

Speaking and Listening:

  • presentations

Language Usage:

  • writing and editing strategies parts of speech

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
  • epics: The Odyssey and Beowulf
  • 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

Course Outline

  • Introduction
  • Course Description
  • Understanding Plagiarism
  • Pretest
  • Assignment: Pretest
  • MLA Formatting MSWord 2007
  • MLA Documentation updates
  • MLA Citation
  • MLA Incorporating Sources
  • Writing about Literature
  • Nouns
  • Count & Non-Count Nouns
  • Either Count/Non-Count
  • Much & Many Rule
  • Verbs
  • Verb Tense
  • Adverbs
  • Adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Interjections
  • Worksheet: Parts of Speech Worksheet
  • Quiz: Parts of Speech
  • The Simple Sentence
  • The Compound Sentence
  • Special Cases
  • The Complex Sentence
  • Sentence Construction
  • Appositives
  • Independent and Dependent Clauses
  • Improving Sentence Clarity
  • Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs
  • Avoid unclear pronoun references
  • Run-ons – Comma Splices
  • Sentence Fragments
  • Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
  • Worksheet: Sentence Fragments
  • Quiz: Sentence Patterns
  • Subject/Verb Agreement
  • “Who,” “which,” and “that”
  • Parenthetical phrases
  • Rules
  • Unacceptable/Acceptable
  • Basic Rule of Grammar
  • Quiz: Subject/Verb Agreement
  • Tradition of Epic Heros
  • Handout: Epic Heroes
  • Handout: Hero’s Journey
  • Background: Trojan War
  • Homer
  • The Odyssey
  • Worksheet: Odyssey Online’s Greece
  • Books 1-8
  • Worksheet: Odyssey Books 1-8
  • Books 9-16
  • Worksheet: Odyssey Books 9-16
  • Books 17-24
  • Worksheet: Odyssey Books 17-24
  • Quiz: Homeric Similies
  • Homeric Poem
  • Assignment: Homeric Poem
  • History into Poetry
  • Essay: History into Poetry
  • Beowulf
  • Characters
  • Beowulf Activities
  • Handout: Elements of the Epic Hero Cycle
  • Worksheet: Beowulf Episodes 1-3
  • Worksheet: Beowulf Episode 4
  • Worksheet: Beowulf Episodes 6-7
  • Assignment: Elements of the Epic Hero Cycle
  • Kennings
  • Worksheet: Kennings
  • Creative Writing: Hero’s Journey
  • Handout: Hero’s Journey Story
  • Assignment: Hero’s Story Pre-Writing
  • Essay: Hero’s Story Final Draft
  • The Greek Theater
  • Greek Vision
  • Assignment: Greek Vision
  • The Tragic Hero
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Worksheet: Oedipus lines 1-308
  • Worksheet: Lines 309-685
  • Worksheet: Lines 685-911
  • Worksheet: Lines 912-end
  • Tragic Flaw
  • Assignment: Tragic Flaw
  • Oedipus final assessment
  • Handout: Literary Analysis Outline
  • Assignment: Literary Analysis Outline
  • Essay: Theme/Motif Essay
  • Antigone
  • Worksheet: Antigone Worksheet
  • Antigone Images
  • Essay: Antigone Images
  • Antigone Final Assessment
  • Essay: Antigone Final Assessment
  • Geoffery Chaucer
  • English Poetry
  • Assignment: English Poetry
  • Character Development
  • Assignment: Character Development
  • Essay: Dialogue
  • Women in Chaucer
  • Assignment: Women in Chaucer
  • Assignment: Women in Medieval Culture
  • Midtest
  • Assignment: Midtest
  • Renaissance in English Literature
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Worksheet: Faust study questions
  • Essay: Tragic Hero
  • Faustian Legend
  • Assignment: Faust Essay Draft
  • Essay: Faustian Legend Essay
  • Shakespeare
  • Macbeth
  • Worksheet: Macbeth Act 1
  • Worksheet: Macbeth Acts 2 & 3
  • Worksheet: Macbeth Acts 4 & 5
  • MacBeth live!
  • Macbeth Video Assignment
  • Essay: Macbeth
  • Romanticism
  • Handout: Satire
  • Worksheet: Romanticism/Gothicism notes
  • Frankenstein
  • Handout: Study guide questions
  • Frankenstein: Prologue – Chapter 7
  • Assignment: Frankenstein Assignment 1
  • Frankenstein Chapters 16 to End
  • Assignment: Frankenstein Assignment 2
  • Frankenstein Essay
  • Handout: Literary Analysis outline
  • Essay: Frankenstein Essay
  • Mock Heroic
  • Handout: Outline: The Rape of the Lock
  • Handout: Poetic Forms & Terms
  • Assignment: The Rape of the Lock
  • Social Criticism
  • Assignment: A Modest Proposal
  • Final Assessment
  • Essay: Final Assessment
  • Victorian England
  • Social Structure
  • Essay: Web Search Victorian England
  • Worksheet: Act I Questions
  • Worksheet: Act II Questions
  • Worksheet: Act III Questions
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest
  • Essay: Importance of Being Earnest Movie
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Essay: Victorian Novel Essay
  • Wuthering Heights –Final Questions
  • Assignment: Final Questions
  • Post-test
  • Assignment: Post-test