DeBakey High School for Health Professions, English II A and B, Magnet
Planning for the year
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
Cycle 5
Cycle 6
Grammar
emphasis
Text:
Elements of
Language
Parts of speech and
parts of a sentence
Phrases and related
punctuation
Clauses, sentence
structures, related
punctuation
Pronoun usage,
capitalization,
punctuation not yet
covered
Verb usage and
tenses
Adjective and
adverb usage
Vocabulary
Power Plus
Book 2
(Prestwick
House)
Literature
emphasis
Text:
Language of
Literature
Power Plus,
Lessons 1 - 4.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
Summer reading:
Bless Me, Ultima &
Great Expectations
for Pre-AP.
Literary terms per
list.
Short Stories.
Power Plus, Add
lessons 5-7.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
The short story
(individual stories
teacher choice).
Literary terms per
list.
King Arthur
excerpts.
Power Plus, Add
lessons 8-11.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
Poetry (individual
poems teacher
choice). Literary
terms per list.
Power Plus, Add
lessons 12-14.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
Nonfiction with
embedded visual
pieces (memoirs,
the essay, op/ed
pieces, etc.) Short
Drama (Man of La
Mancha) Literary
terms per list.
Power Plus, Add
lessons 15-18.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
Drama: Julius
Caesar. Literary
terms per list.
Power Plus, add
lessons 19-21.
including exercises
in revision and
editing.
Drama: Finish
Julius Caesar.
Antigone. Literary
terms per list.
Optional novels by
individual teacher
choice
Optional novels by
individual teacher
choice
Optional novels by
individual teacher
choice
Optional novels by
individual teacher
choice
Optional novels by
individual teacher
choice
EOC Short Answer
writing, other
writing for analysis
EOC Expository
Writing
EOC Persuasive
Writing. Begin
biographical
research paper
Biographical
research paper is
due
Pre-AP: Rhetorical
Writing for literary
analysis
Pre-AP: Synthesis
writing
Other
literature
Writing
emphasis
Essay including
literary analysis
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Cycle 1
Other
Objective reading
test over summer
reading before the
end of week 2,
counts as 30% of
cycle grade
End of
Course
Exam(25%
of cycle
grade each
cycle).
Parts of speech,
parts of a sentence,
vocabulary lessons
1 – 4, analysis of
passage from a
book or short story
literary terms from
list
Cycle 2
EOC diagnostic
over objective
portions (reading,
revising/editing)
plus short answer
writing (optional)
LTF Pre-Test (PreAP only)
Phrases and related
punctuation,
vocabulary lessons
1-7, short story
analysis, literary
terms from list
Cycle 3
*Final Exam
Clauses, sentence
structure and related
punctuation,
vocabulary lessons
1 - 11, poetry
analysis, literary
terms from list
Cycle 4
Cycle 5
using MLA
requirements
Analysis
Pronoun types and
usage,
capitalization, other
punctuation not yet
covered, vocabulary
lessons 1 - 14,
nonfiction analysis,
literary terms from
list
Verb tenses and
usage, vocabulary
lessons 1-18, Julius
Caesar, literary
terms from list.
Cycle 6
*Final Exam
Adjective and
adverb usage,
vocabulary lessons
1-21, Antigone,
literary terms from
list
* Power Plus vocabulary book is divided into 21 lessons, which would be an average of 3.5 lessons per cycle. The above cycle groupings are
built around the fact that the book has reviews at the end of lessons 7, 14 and 21.
** Power Plus vocabulary words are cumulative. Each previous cycle’s words will roll over to the remaining cycles.
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English II A and B (magnet and Pre-AP, common literary terms to know)
Understanding of these terms should be cumulative throughout the year (i.e. terms from cycle 1 may be used
in cycle 6). Students should understand definitions of these terms and be able to find examples in the readings.
Students should be able to use these terms when writing essays of literary analysis. All terms are defined in the glossary
in the back of the literature text.
Cycles 1: Emphasis on the
novel
Cycle 2: Emphasis on
the short story
Cycle 3: Emphasis on poetry
Cycle 4: Emphasis on
nonfiction and King Arthur
legend
Cycle 5 and 6: Emphasis on drama
allegory, characterization,
conflict (external/internal),
description, fiction, plot
development (exposition,
rising action, climax/turning
point, falling action,
resolution), flashback,
foreshadowing, genre
(novel), imagery, irony
(situational, verbal), motif,
narrator, narrative, points of
view (3), realism, satire,
science fiction, setting
(time/place), structure,
symbol, theme
allusion, analogy,
antagonist,
connotation/denotation,
dialogue, diction, foil,
genre (short story),
hero, mood,
protagonist, speaker,
stereotype, style,
suspense, tone,
understatement, voice
alliteration, assonance,
blank verse,
consonance, couplet,
metaphor (plus extended
metaphor), free verse,
hyperbole, lyric poem, meter
(mostly iambic pentameter),
narrative poem,
onomatopoeia,
personification, quatrain,
rhyme scheme, simile,
sonnet form (especially
Shakespearean), stanza
autobiography,
biography, essay (as a
genre and types of), legend,
memoir, nonfiction, op/ed
newspaper writing,
rhetorical question,
romance (genre)
act, anachronism, aside
comic relief. dramatic irony,
chorus, denouement, tragic hero/
tragic flaw, myth, parallelism,
props, pun, repetition, scene,
soliloquy, stage directions, tragedy
>>If there are any changes that need to be made students will know ahead of time<<
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