2010-2011 Parent and Student Handbook
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English Literature to 1798
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English Literature from 1798
Target Population: This course is intended to prepare students in grade 12 to successfully complete all appropriate Oklahoma PASS objectives and to meet the minimum state requirements for a high school diploma. Students who plan to attend a college or univesity after high school graduation should take Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition, or consider taking "zero credit" remedial courses during their college freshman year.
Textbooks: Literature; The Reader's Choice, British Literature, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Adventures in English Literature, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Course content: Students will study the interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of English literature as provided in the appropriate PASS objectives for this grade level. The average daily reading assignment will be five to six pages. Students are expected to read each assignment before coming to class. Novels studied in this course may include but are not limited to Pride and Prejudice, and Robinson Crusoe. Students will share their assignment summaries in class, analyze the works, and discuss the theme of each work both orally and in writing. Students have a vocabulary program, appropriate for this grade level and derived from the study of literature. Students will write short (500 to 750 words) compositions using the literature selections as writing prompts. A documented term paper is a requirement for each semester of English Literature.
Evaluation: Student skills in grammar, mechanics, and usage are measured by composition requirements. student progress in vocabulary building is measured by activity sheets, weekly quizzes, and quarterly tests. Student progress in literature is measured by reading checks, worksheets, selection tests, and unit tests. Overall course progress is measured by comprehensive semester tests.
Attendance: students are expected to comply with Apache High School's requirements for attendance. all selection tests, weekly tests, and unit tests which a student has missed must be made up within the time limit allowed by Apache High School policy (see AHS student Handbook, 2007-2008) UNLESS prior arrangements have been made WITH THE INSTRUCTOR.
Credit: English Literature may be used to meet the State of Oklahoma graduation requirements as one of "three additional language arts courses."
First Semester; Minimum Course of Study
Collection 1; Literature
- "from Beowulf Part One"
- "from Beowulf Part Two"
Collection 2; Literature
- "Lord Randall"
- "The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales"
Collection 2; Writing
- Reporting Literary Research
Collection 3; Literature
- "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
- "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
- "Sonnet 29"
- Macbeth, Acts 1, 2, and 5
- "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
- "The Fall of Satan from Paradise Lost"
Second Semester; Minimum Course of Study
- Week 1
- Under Construction
- Semester Final Exam
Technical Terms
New Terms: There are 42 new technical terms introduced in English Literature. These terms will be presented and explained at appropriate points in the course: allegory (page R1), aphorism (page 1), apostrophe (page 1), ballad stanza (page R2), Byronic hero (page 2), caesura (page R3), Carpe Diem tradition (page R3), Cavalier poetry (page R3), classicism (page R3), conceit (page R4), diary (page R4), empathy (page R5), enjambment (page R5), epigram (page R5), epigraph (page R5), epilogue (page R5), epiphany (page R5), epitaph (page R5), epithet (page R5), exemplum (page R6), formal essay (page R7), gothic novel (page R7), heroic stanza (page 7), history (page R8), informal essay (page R8), kennings (page R9), literary criticism (page R9), metaphysical conceit (page R9), metaphysical poetry (page (R9), miracle play (page R9), morality play (page R10), neoclassicism (page R10), nonsense verse (page R10), ottava rima (page R11), prologue (page R12), Puritan writing (page R12), slant rhyme (page R14), sonnet sequence (page R15), subject (page R16), theatre of the absurd (page R16), tragic hero (page R17), and translation (page R17).
Review Terms: Other technical terms were introduced in American Literature or earlier classes. Students are expected to be familiar with these terms at the beginning of the course.
act, abstract language, alliteration, allusion, analogy, anedote, antagonist, anthropomorphism, argument, aside, assonance, atmosphere, author's purpose, autobiography
ballad, biography, blank verse
character, characterization, cinquain, climax, colloquial language, comedy, comic relief, conclusion, conflict, connotation, consonance, couplet
denotation, denouement, description, details, dialect, dialogue, diction, drama, dramatic irony, dramatic monologue, dramatic poetry, dynamic character
elegy, epic, epic simile, essay, exaggeration, exposition, extended metaphor
fable, falling action, fantasy, fiction, figurative language, figure of speech, flashback, flat character, foil, folklore, folktale, (metrical) foot, foreshadowing, frame story, free verse
genre
haiku, hero/heroine, historical fiction, humor, hyperbole
iambic pentameter, idiom, imagery (image), informational text, internal rhyme, inversion, irony
journal, juxtaposition
legend, limerick, line, literal language, local color, lyric, lyric poetry
magical realism, main character, main idea, memoir, metaphor, meter, metonymy, minor character, modernism, monologue, mood, moral, motif, motivation, myth
narration, narrative, narrative poetry, narrator, naturalism, nonfiction, novel, novella
octave, ode, onamatopoeia, oral tradition, oxymoron
personal essay, plot twist, props (properties), prose, psychological realism
rationalism, regionalism, rhetorical question, round character
science fiction, screenplay, sensory details, sensory imagery, sequence of events, situational irony, slave narrative, sonnet, sound devices, stage directions, structure, surrealist poetry, symbolist poetry
technical vocabulary, teleplay, thesis, title, tragic flaw, triplet
verbal irony, verse paragraph, visual imagery
word choice
Priority Academic Student Skills, Language Arts, Grade 12
Reading/Literature: The student will apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, appreciate, and respond to a wide variety of texts.
Standard 1: Vocabulary--The student will expand vocabulary through word study, literature, and class discussion.
Apply a knowledge of word origins (words from other languages, history, or literature) to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading and use those words accurately.
Standard 2: Comprehension--The student will interact with the words and concepts on the page to understand what the writer has said.
Read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. Analyze the organizational patterns and evaluate authors' arguments and positions. At Grade 12, in addition to regular classroom reading, read a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, poetry, magazines, newspapers, reference materials, and online information.
Standard 3: Literature--The student will read, construct meaning, and respond to a wide variety of literary forms.
Read and respond to grade-level-appropriate historically or culturally significant works of British, American, or world literature. Conduct in-depth analysis of themes, styles, and trends of these works across historical periods.
Standard 4: Research and Information--The student will conduct research and organize information.
Writing/Grammar/Usage and Mechanics: The student will express ideas effectively in written modes for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Write coherent and focused essays that show a well-defined point of view and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates a progression through the stages of the writing process (prewriting, writing, revising and editing).
Standard 1: Writing Process--The student will use the writing process to write coherently.
At Grade 12, continue to combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, and persuasion, and description to produce reflective compositions, historical investigation reports, and deliver multimedia presentations. The writing demonstrates a command of Standard english and the research, organization, and drafting of strategies outlined in the writing process. Writing demonstrates an awareness of the audience (intended reader) and the purpose for writing.
Standard 3: Grammar/Usage and Mechanics--The student will demonstrate appropriate practices in writing by applying Standard English conventions to the revising and editing stages of writing.
Oral Language/Listening and Speaking: The student will demonstrate thinking skills in listening and speaking.
formulate thoughtful judgements about oral communication. Deliver focused and coherent presentations that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. Deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional speech strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Use gesture, tone, and vocabulary appropriate to the audience and purpose. Use the same Standard English conventions for oral speech that are used in writing.
Standard 1: Listening--The student will listen for information and for pleasure.
Standard 2: Speaking--The student will express ideas and opinions in group and individual situations.
Visual Literacy: The student will interpret, evaluate, and compose visual messages.
Standard 1: Interpret Meaning--The student will interpret and evaluate the various ways visual image-makers including graphic artists, illustrators, and news photographers represent meaning.
Standard 2: Evaluate Media--the student will evaluate visual and electronic media, such as film, as compared with print messages.
Standard 3: compose visual Messages--The student will create a visual message that effectively communicates an idea.
First Semester; Daily Lesson Plans
- Week 1: Aug. 13-15, 2008 (three school days)
- Program Overview; set up student accounts
- Entry Level Test
- Collection One Diagnostic Test
- Homework Assignment: read "The Anglo-Saxons 449-1066" 6-17 for Fri.
- Introduction to Old English literature
- Homework Assignment: read [Introduction to] "Beowulf" 18-19 for Mon.
- Week 2: Aug. 18-22, 2008
- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry
- Homework Assignment: read "from Beowulf; Part One" 21-38 for Tue.
- Beowulf and Grendel
- Homework Assignment: read "from Beowulf; Part Two" 43-48 for Thur.
- Vocabulary; Anglo-Saxon words and word parts
- Week 3
Second Semsester; Daily Lesson Plans
- Week 1:
Frequently Asked Questions
Question: Will English Literature by itself prepare a student to do college level work in reading and writing?
Response: Absolutely not. Students who intend to earn a college or university degree should take English I, English II, American Literature, English Literature, and Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition or Advanced Placement English Language and Composition. Students who do not successfully take at least one AP English course should expect to take one or more "zero credit" language courses during their freshman year in college.
Question: Why do students who are not going to college have to take English Literature?
Response: They don't. The State of Oklahoma sets requirements for high school graduation which include one unit of grammar and composition, and three additional units of composition or literature. English Literature is only one of the classes which may be used to meet the "three additional units" requirement.
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