2013-2014
English 12 B
Teacher: Adam Schott
The English 12 B course focuses on the writing process and how to direct it to the creation of
essays, reports, and literary responses. Students will be exposed to creative writing such as short
stories and expository writing such as persuasive essays. Another focus of English 12 B is on
Early English Literature, British Romanticism, and British Modernism. Students will be exposed
and will be expected to formulate responses to British authors and poets such as William
Shakespeare, John Keats, William Blake, John Milton, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Charlotte
Brontë, etc.
Syllabus:
Unit 1: Writing Part I
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-1.1.1 Writing Process and Creative Writing, ENGIVB-1.2.1
Diction and Sentence Structure, ENGIVB-1.3.1 Autobiographical Writing, ENGIVB-1.4.1
Short Stories, ENGIVB-1.5.1 Responses to Literature
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Utilize the writing process: prewriting, drafting, proofreading, editing, revising, and
publishing; Understand the structure of short stories and other works of fiction
Utilize smooth word choice and sentence variety to enhance written work
Utilize the writing process to generate an autobiographical work
Utilize the writing process to generate a short story
Create formal responses to works of literature using the writing process
Unit 2: Writing Part II
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-2.1.1 Descriptive Essays, ENGIVB-2.2.1 Persuasive Essays,
ENGIVB-2.3.1 Advertisements
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a descriptive essay
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to formulate a persuasive essay
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create an advertisement
2013-2014
English 12 B
Teacher: Adam Schott
Unit 3: Writing III
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-3.1.1 Compare and Contrast Essays, ENGIVB-3.2.1 Cause and
Effect Essays, ENGIVB-3.3.1 Problem and Solution Essays, ENGIVB-3.4.1 Documented
Essays, ENGIVB-3.5.1 Research Papers
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a compare and contrast paper
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a cause and effect paper
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a problem and solution paper
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a documented essay
Utilize prewriting and drafting strategies to create a research paper
Unit 4: Reading Methods
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-4.1.1 Using Textbooks, ENGIVB-4.2.1 Reading Nonfiction,
ENGIVB-4.3.1 Analyzing Fiction
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Utilize the text features of textbooks to find, review, and organize information; Use
variable reading strategies to study; Use skimming and scanning to gather
information quickly in a textbook
Use strategies for reading nonfiction, including the distinction between fact and
opinion; Apply modes of reasoning, including inductive reasoning, deductive
reasoning, and logical fallacies; Evaluate use of language, including denotation,
connotation, irony, and jargon
Use methods of analyzing fiction; Read from various sources
Unit 5: Early English Literature
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-5.1.1 Morte d’Arthur, ENGIVB-5.2.1 Shakespearean Sonnets,
ENGIVB-5.3.1 The Tragedy of Macbeth
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Identify the main idea of the Morte d’Arthur; Recognize effect of medieval elements
and legends in the selection
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Teacher: Adam Schott
Identify the main idea of the Shakespearean Sonnets; Critique style and form of poem
Identify the main idea of The Tragedy of Macbeth; Discuss historical elements in the
selection from The Tragedy of Macbeth
Unit 6: Civil War and Revolutions
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-6.1.1 Milton Sonnets, ENGIVB-6.2.1 Milton Stories, ENGIVB6.3.1 Jonathan Swift, ENGIVB-6.4.1 Anne Finch and Thomas Gray
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Identify the main idea behind selections of poetry by John Milton; Recognize meter
in poetry; Describe the use of mood in poetry
Identify the main idea behind “Paradise Lost” by John Milton; Discuss the epic
elements found in “Paradise Lost”
Identify the main idea behind Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift; Examine the uses
of literary devices and satire
Identify the main idea behind the poem “Elegy Written on a Country Church” by
Thomas Gray; Identify the main idea behind the poem “A Nocturnal Reverie”;
Recognize the style of pre-Romantic poetry; Utilize the technique of paraphrasing to
relay the central message behind the selections of poetry
Unit 7: Romanticism
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-7.1.1 Robert Burns and Joanna Baillie, ENGIVB-7.2.1 William
Blake, ENGIVB-7.3.1 Mary Shelley, ENGIVB-7.4.1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ENGIVB-7.5.1
John Keats, ENGIV-7.6.1 Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Identify the main idea behind selections of poetry; Recognize the use of dialect in the
selections
Locate the main idea behind William Blake’s poetry selection; Recognize the usage
of archetypes
Identify the main idea behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Discuss Gothic literature
elements during the Romantic era
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Identify the main idea behind poetic selections by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Rime of
the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan”; Examine the use of assonance, alliteration,
and consonance in narrative poetry
Identify the main idea behind John Keat’s “Ode to the Nightingale”; Examine the
elements of odes written by John Keats
Identify main idea behind selections from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft;
Examine the use of persuasive techniques in social commentary
Unit 8: Victorian Literature
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-8.1.1 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ENGIVB-8.2.1 Robert Browning,
ENGIVB-8.3.1 Charles Dickens, ENGIVB-8.4.1 Charlotte Bronte; ENGIVB-8.5.1 Rudyard
Kipling; ENGIVB-8.6.1 Thomas Hardy
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Identify the main idea behind the selection by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Examine the
usage of speaker in Victorian literature
Identify the main idea behind selections by Robert Browning; Discuss the effect of
dramatic monologue; compare and contrast speakers in selections
Identify the main idea behind Charles Dicken’s selected work; Analyze the author’s
purpose in the selection
Identify the main idea behind a selection by Charlotte Bronte; Analyze author’s
assumptions in the selection
Identify the main idea behind a selection by Rudyard Kipling; Analyze the use of
mood and the use of historical periods
Identify the main idea behind a poem selection by Thomas Hardy; Examine the
impact of stanza structure on the meaning of the selection; Analyze the use of irony
Unit 9: Modernism
MHSCE Standards ENGIVB-9.1.1 William Butler Yeats, ENGIVB-9.2.1 Joseph Conrad,
ENGIVB-9.3.1 George Orwell
Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Identify the main idea behind poetic selection by Yeats; Understand the philosophical
assumptions in the selection; Explain the use of symbolism
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Identify the main idea behind Joseph Conrad’s selection; Understand the use of plot
devices; Understand the cause-and-effect elements of the selection
Identify the main idea behind the selection by George Orwell; Evaluate cultural
conflicts in selections of contemporary literature; Recognize the use of irony
Grading Categories:
In this course, your grade will consist of the following:
Unit Tests: 80%
Senior Exit Presentation: 10 %
Final Exam: 10%
Grading Scale:
A
95-100
A-
90-94
B+
88-89
B
84-87
B-
80-83
C+ 78-79
C
74-77
C-
70-73
D+
68-69
D
64-67
D-
60-63
E
0-59