English 4 College Prep
Instructor Name: Dr. Shawn Temple and Ms. Aileen Broan
Office Location: 211, English office or 318
Email Address: stemple@somervilleschools.org and abroan@somervilleschools.org
Office phone: 908-218-4108
Office hours:
Dr. Temple – Tuesday 2:30-3:30 and by appointment in Room 211
Ms. Broan—Tuesday 2:30-3:00 and Friday 2:30-3:00 and by appointment in Room 318
Catalog Description
The English IV course is designed for seniors who have successfully completed three
years of English. The overall theme of English IV is the relationship between man and
nature in various literary time periods, including the present. The course of study focuses
on Greek drama, the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and Renaissance literary periods, and
British literature of the 17th through early 20th centuries. Various literary genres, such as
novels, short stories, poetry, and plays, provide varied experiences. Written composition,
vocabulary, and the practical application of the mechanics of grammar are incorporated
throughout the course. Holocaust studies focus on examples of prejudice and hatred that
persist in today’s society.
Required Materials
You may use one of two options:
1. A 3-ring binder with dividers
Or
2. A pocket folder and a spiral notebook
Thumb drive (computer/printer problems are not an excuse for missing assignments)
A highlighter
Grades
You will be graded in a variety of ways. Some of your assessments will be formal such as
tests, essays, and projects. Others will be more informal such as exit cards, pop quizzes,
and short responses to the reading. Each graded assignment will be given a point value.
For every day an assignment is late, a ten-point deduction will be taken off the final
grade.
Conduct
Please make sure you are on time for class. For the first late, you will receive a warning.
For subsequent infractions, you will have detentions or be referred to the appropriate
administrator.
Second Late—15-minute detention
Third Late—Referral
No cellular devices will be accepted in the classroom. Use the passing time to text if
necessary. If we see you using your phone, we reserve the right to refer you to the
appropriate administrator. No warning will be provided prior to referral.
Homework
We do not accept late homework. If the assignment is not present on the due date, you
will earn a zero. Each homework assignment is worth three points.
Plagiarism
Somerville High School requires independent, honest work on the part of its students, and
students are expected to conduct themselves with scholarly integrity. Each confirmed
incident of academic dishonesty, cheating, or plagiarism must be reported by
administration. Any plagiarism will result in a zero on the assignment and possible
referral to the administration.
Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to:
1) Copying answers from a textbook to submit for a grade.
2) Quoting text or other works without citation when requested by the faculty
member to present one’s own work.
3) Submitting a paper or essay obtained from a term paper service or taken from
the Internet.
4) Submitting a paper or report written by another student, a parent, or a colleague
as one’s own.
5) Submitting another student’s project, essay, research paper, or computer
program as one’s own.
6) Submitting a paper wholly or in substantial part using the exact phrasing of
source material.
7) Submitting a paper closely paraphrased from source material, where the
original source material is simply edited with perhaps minor word changes
occurring.
8) Submitting a paper closely paraphrased from source material, splicing together
sentences from scattered segments of the original.
Texts and Reading Selections
Required Texts
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc. Eds. Adventures in British Literature Athena Edition
New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1996. Print.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Print.
Sophocles: The Oedipus Cycle Trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. New York:
Harcourt, Inc., 1949. Print.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Bantam Classic. 2003, Print.
Reading Selections
The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
Introduction
Beowulf Translated by Burton Raffel
“The Seafarer” Translated by Burton Raffel
The Medieval Period (1066-1485)
Introduction
“The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
The Elizabethan Age (1564-1616)
William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 18”
“Sonnet 29”
“Sonnet 30”
“Sonnet 73”
“Sonnet 116”
“Sonnet 130”
Hamlet
The Jacobean Age
Metaphysical Poets
John Donne (pages 264-271)
George Herbert (pages 273-274)
Andrew Marvell (pages 276)
Ben Jonson (pages 282-284)
Robert Herrick (pages 287-288)
Sir John Suckling (pages 289-291)
The Puritan Age
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Pilgram’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Age of Pope
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
“Pope’s Epigrams”
The Romantic Age
“A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth
Sonnets:
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
“It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Gree”
“London, 1802”
“The World is Too Much with us”
“She Walks in Beauty”, “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year”Lord
Byron
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
** We reserve the right to add or remove any reading assignments during the school
year.