Download Summer Work for 2009

Course:
CONTENT/TOPICS
and TIME
Modernism – A
Time of Rapid
Change:
4 Weeks
ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
-How did the Stream of
Consciousness technique
influence many of the stories we
read?
-How did British Imperialism
influence the literature of the 20th
Century
- How does culture influence
literature? (on –going)
---------------------------------------How can voice be taken away in
a society with an unbalanced
power structure?
Anglo Saxon- From
Legend to History
2 Weeks +
- How did the Anglo Saxon belief
in fate influence the literature?
- What defines a hero?
- How did Anglo Saxon culture
influence literature?
Medieval PeriodFrom Legend to
History
3 weeks +
- How did Medieval culture
influence the literature?
- How do the pilgrims represent a
cross section of Medieval
society?
College English IV
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING TARGETS
STANDARDS
ASSESSMENTS
RESOURCES
Textbook:
-“Shooting an
Elephant”
-“Araby”
-“The Lagoon”
-“The Lady in the
Looking Glass”
-“The Rocking Horse
Winner”
-“A Dill Pickle”
-“A Cup of Tea”
--------------------------Novel:
-Lord of the Flies
Movie:
Lord of the Flies
Textbook:
Beowulf
“The Seafarer”
“The Wanderer”
“The Wife’s Lament”
The Venerable Bede
Anglo Saxon Riddles
Movie:
Beowulf
Students will understand:
Point of View
Themes
Symbolism/Realism/Naturalism/Classicism
Plot Devices- Epiphany
Irony
Participial phrases
Subject/Verb agreement
-------------------------------------------------------Corruption of society
Nature vs. Nurture
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1,2,4,5,6,7,9,
10
S&L
1,4,6
Reading Homework
Ongoing Vocabulary
Presentations: Written,
Visual, Oral
Tests/Quizzes
Summer Read
Analysis essay
Brief Narrative
Students will read and understand:
-Epic poetry
-Epic Hero
-Lyric poetry
-Paganism vs. Christianity
-Tracing the beginning of the English
Language
-Riddles
Paraphrasing
Themes- violence, good vs evil, war
Students will understand:
-Characterization
-Narrative poetry
-Analyzing difficult sentences
- Allegory
- Frame story
- Exemplum
- Apologia
- Romances
Who vs. whom
Run on sentences
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
On going Vocabulary
Test/ Quizzes
Presentations: Written,
Visual, Oral
Reading Homework
Literature/ theme based
essays
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
On going Vocabulary
Test/Quizzes
Reading homework
Ballad presentation
Exemplum writing
Oral/Visual
presentation (pilgrim)
Textbook:
The PrologueCanterbury Tales
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s
Tale
Morte d’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
Ballads
Movie:
Research Paper
Project
8 weeks
Why do research?
Renaissance- Focus
on Drama
3-4 weeks
-How did Elizabethan culture
influence the literature?
- How can power corrupt?
-How did Shakespeare satirize
unfair social customs?
17th and 18th
Centuries prose
A Turbulent Time
- How did 17th and 18th Century
culture influence the literature?
- How does Swift try to affect
social change through satire?
-How do themes in poetry impact
us today through song lyrics?
2 weeks
Poetry
2 weeks
Merlin
History Channel
Productions
Database
Books
Internet
Students will understand:
Utilization of Library Resources
MLA Format/ OWL
Rearch Steps
Formatting
Thesis Statement
Note Taking Skills
Plagiarism
Students will read:
Elizabethan Drama
Students will understand author’s use of:
Blank Verse
Imagery
Tragic Hero
Pronouns antecedents, possessive form
Dramatic Irony
Speech- tone, rhetoric
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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
10
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2,4,5,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
Bibliography
Thesis Statement
Book Report
Final Paper
No Late Papers Will
Be Accepted
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L
1,4,6
Persuasive Essay
Memorization Project
Reading homework
Test/Quizzes
Presentations
Ongoing vocabulary
Textbook
Macbeth
Taming of the Shrew
Movie:
Macbeth (selected
clips)
10 Things I Hate About
You
Students will:
Read and comprehend non-fiction
Satire
Gothic Literature
-------------------------------------------------Poetic Devices
Metaphysical poetry
Inferring theme
Drawing conclusions
Dialect
Symbols
Grammar lessons (on-going)
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1,2,3,4,5,6,10
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2,4,5,6,7,9,10
S&L 1,4,6
-Satire Observation
-Satire Project
-Test/Quizzes
-Presentations
-Reading homework
-Parody of existing
Television show and
song
-Ongoing Vocabulary
Textbook
Excerpt from
Gulliver’s Travels
“A Modest Proposal”
“The Diary”
“A Journal of a Plague
Year”
“Intro to Frankenstein”
Article:
“Soap and the Campus:
A Web-Site Spoof
Succeeds”
Movie:
Gulliver’s Travels
Song:
Weird Al Yankowich
------------------------John Donne
Ben Jonson
Andrew Marvell
Sir John Suckling
Robert Herrick
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19th Century Poetry
and Prose
How did 19th Century culture
influence the literature?
How do major themes found in
poetry impact us today, by way of
song lyrics?
Students will understand:
Poetic devices
Symbols
Inferring theme
Drawing conclusion
Romanticism
Lyric Poetry
Odes
Dramatic Monologue
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1,2,4,5,7,10
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2,4,5,7,9,10
S&L
1,2,4,6
Poetry Presentationanlysis
Ongoing Vocabulary
Reading Homework
Writing an ode
Poetry Project- finding
poetic device in song
lyric
Richard Lovelace
Thomas Gray
Robert Burns
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Alfred Lord,
Tennysson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Thomas Hardy
A.E. Housman
William Butler Yeats
T.S. Eliot
W.H. Auden
Siegfried Sassoon
Dylan Thomas
Selected Sherlock
Holmes short stories.
Movie:
Sherlock Holmes
20th Century
Literature- Post
Modern Period
What is dystopian literature, and
how are the values of society
questioned?
What are the effects of a
totalitarian society?
Students will understand:
Irony
Satire
Allusion
Point of View
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1,2,3,4,7,10
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1,2,4,5,9,10
S&L
1,3,4,6
Reading Homework
Ongoing Vocabulary
Anaysis Paper- Brave
New World or Animal
Farm
Novel:
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Movie:
Animal Farm
Brave New World
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