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ENGLISH 1 – SYLLABUS
1 Six Weeks – The Short Story
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Readings:
Grammar:
The Jump – Leo Tolstoy
The Lady or the Tiger – Frank Shelton
The Most Dangerous Game – R. Connell
The Interlopers – Saki
The Gift of the Magi – O. Henry
Liberty – Julia Alvarez
The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant
sentence frangments / run-on sentences
commas and adverbial
misplaced modifiers
Writing:
Narrative writing – short story
Personal narrative
Letter
Academic Vocabulary:
Plot
Theme
Point of view
Characterization
Tone / mood / attitude
Narrator / voice
Imagery
2nd Six Weeks – Non-Fiction
Readings:
Only Daughter – Sandra Cisneros
A Brother’s Crime – James Cross Giblin
Escape from Afthanistan – Farah Ahmedi
from Black Boy – Richard Wright
from All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes – M Angelou
from Sacagawea’s Nickname – L. McMurtry
from Into Thin Air – J. Krakauer
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Happy Trails to You – Dave Barry
I Have a Dream – M. L. King Jr.
from When I was a Puerto Rican – Esmeralda Santiago
Grammar:
clauses and phrases
compound/complex sentences
pronoun/antecedent agreement
possessive/reciprocal pronouns
Writing:
Persuasive letter
Expository essay – biographical narr.
News Report
Academic Vocabulary
Biography / autobiography / memoir
Expository
Persuasive
Rhetoric
Appeals / ethos, pathos, logos
Diction / style
3rd Six Weeks – Poetry
Readings:
Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Red, Red Rose – Robert Burns
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – Wm. Wordsworth
The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
The Black Snake – Mary Oliver
A Noiseless Patient Spider – W. Whitman
who are you, little I – e e cummings
I (a – e e cummings
Haiku
Grammar:
subject/verb agreement
misplaced/dangling modifiers
hyphens
subjunctive mood
Writing:
Analytical essay
compare/contrast essay
Lyric poem
Hope is the Thing With Feathers – E. Dickinson
I’m Nobody! Who Are You – E. Dickinson
The Seven Ages of Man – Wm. Shakespeare
The Road Not Taken – Robt. Frost
Fire and Ice – Robt. Frose
Theme for English B – Langston Hughes
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning – Alice Walker
4th Six Weeks – Drama
Readings
apostrophes
use punctuation correctly
Writing:
editorial
compare/contrast essay
expository essay – character
Academic vocabulary:
5th Six Weeks – Epics and Myths
Readings:
from The Odyssey - Homer
Over Hill and Under Hill from the Hobbit – Tolkein
Perseus – retold by Edith Hamilton
The Fenris Wolf – retold by Olivia Coolidge
Coyote and Crow – retold by Ella Clark
Sweet Betsy from Pike - traditional
A Song of Greatness – Anonymous
narrative / lyric
figurative language / metaphor
imagery / personification
meter / foot / sonnet form
iambic pentameter
Grammar:
Romeo and Juliet – Wm. Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
from Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon
The Hitchhiker – Lucille Fletcher
analtragedy/comedy/farce
monologue /soliloquy / aside
Protagonist / antagonist
Tragic hero
Irony: verbal, situational, dramatic
Academic Vocabulary:
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Grammar:
active / passive voice
adverbs
transitional expressions
Writing:
compare/contrast essay
expository essay – research report
Academic vocabulary:
legend, myth, tall tale,
epic, archetype
6th Six Weeks – Fiction
Readings:
from Buy Jupiter – Isaac Assimov
The Sentinel – Arthur Clark
A Sound of Thunder – Ray Bradbury
The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allen Poe
Grammar:
compound/complex sentences
moods of verbs
parallelism
Writing:
Blurbs
Book review
Academic vocabulary:
Genre
Critique
Style / diction