12th Grade English and Language Arts
D. Martinez
HSeng1@panamericano.edu.co
Vision statement
To create a rigorous and highly ambitious academic environment geared towards
preparing seniors in high school for the rigors of higher learning here and abroad. The
ultimate goal in mind is: college skills readiness for post-secondary studies and beyond.
By introducing students to a variety of literary formats in correlation with a demanding,
but closely supervised analytical writing framework, the students will be substantially
prepared to analyze, decipher and, synthesize texts along with creating insightful
compositions on a variety of topics through the course. By utilizing the primary
foundations of language arts; listening, speaking, reading, and writing, one will find a
young pupil ready for what their future academic endeavors hold.
Mission at hand
Regarding Literature
Students and instructor will all facilitate accountable discourse in which insights and
observations are shared and documented. Students will be responsible for annotations and
records for their independent studies. A variety of literary elements and skills will be
examined for comprehension via a plethora of assessments.
Regarding Synthesis composition
Students will adhere to the common core standard rubrics as prescribed by instructor.
Students will utilize the skills provided by instructor in order to create viable literary
analysis using academic primary and secondary sources while adhering to MLA format
on all formal assignments.
Regarding Oral Communication
Students are to demonstrate a grasp of appropriate academic language via the lexicon of
language arts. Debates, Socratic seminars, presentations, teacher-led discussions, and
peer discourse are all in (but not limited to) the realm of observable assessment here.
General Course Overview
Unit Title
Length
Unit 1: Classroom Culture
Literary review- Baseline writing exam –
Materials – MLA Review
1 Week
Unit 2: The Oral Tradition of Epics
Beowulf - MLA – Synthesis – Elements of
lit. – M.W.D.S – In/out house Analysis
(Primary source) - Archetypes
5 Weeks
Unit 3: The Middle Ages
Selected Canterbury Tales –Pilgrimage
project– Presentations – Annotations –
Synthesis analysis - Federigo’s Falcon
Unit 4: The Shakespearean Sonnet/
Carpe Diem Poetry
The Renaissance –Elements of Poetry –
Socratic Seminar – Analysis – FPVASTTSynthesis analysis – Sonnet Emulation
project with presentation
5 Weeks
4 Weeks
Unit 5: English Modernism
– Front loading historical context –
Academic secondary sources- Synthesis
analysis with in house and at home
resources– Writing conferencing
peer/teacher led- Socratic seminar- Woolf –
Orwell – Joyce – Lawrence – Borges –
Heaney- Auden (2) Unit 6: Rhetoric/Reasoning/Argument
A Modest Proposal – Words and Behavior–
Argumentative writing (world issues) –
Socratic circle and presentation with
argument
Unit 7: Shakespearean Tragedy- Can
5 Weeks
5 Weeks
one be overly Ambitious?
5 Weeks
Macbeth - Elements of a tragedy –
soliloquy and aside- Analysis with multiple
sources
Unit 8: Social/Self Consciousness in text
through English history (short stories
and poetry)
4 Weeks
One’s sense of self and society –
Cavendish – Wollstonecraft- DonneBlake- Houseman- Yeats- Keats – OwenCrane- Tolstoy
Unit 9: Comprehensive Review – Year at
a Glance
Major works data sheets – Gallery walk –
Final exam in two parts – Debriefing
discussion (student led) – Writing review:
are we college writers?
2 Weeks
**All assignments, order of assignments, and times of implementation are subject to
change based on Mr. Martinez’s professional discernment **