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ENGLISH 1 – SYLLABUS 1 Six Weeks – The Short Story st 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 . 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: . 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