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
- Introduction
- Course Description
- Understanding Plagiarism
- Pretest
- Assignment: Pretest
- MLA Formatting MSWord 2007
- MLA Documentation updates
- MLA Citation
- MLA Incorporating Sources
- Writing about Literature
Parts Of Speech Review
- 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
Sentence Structure
- The Simple Sentence
- The Compound Sentence
- Special Cases
- The Complex Sentence
Sentence Pattrens
- 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
- Subject/Verb Agreement
- “Who,” “which,” and “that”
- Parenthetical phrases
- Rules
- Unacceptable/Acceptable
- Basic Rule of Grammar
- Quiz: Subject/Verb Agreement
Ancient Epics
- 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
Greek Drama
- 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
Medieval Period
- 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
The Renaissance
- 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
- 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 Era
- 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