12th Grade English IV

✔ 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