ENGLISH 2 – SYLLABUS
1 Six Weeks – The Short Story
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Readings:
Grammar:
Old Man at the Bridge - E. Hemingway
The Open Window - Saki
Civil Peace – Chinua Achebe
Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allen Poe
Tuesday Siesta – Gabriel García Márquez
When Mr. Prizada Came to Dine – Jhumpa Lahiri
Through the Tunnel – Doris Lessing
sentence frangments / run-on sentences
varied sentences / commas
Writing:
Narrative writing – short story
Personal narrative
Letter
Academic Vocabulary:
Plot
Theme
Point of view
Characterization
Tone / mood / attitude
Narrator / voice
Imagery
2nd Six Weeks – Non-Fiction
Readings:
Farewell to Manzanar – Jean and James Houston
Kaffir Boy – Mark Mathabene
Living Well/Living Good – Maya Angelou
Typhoid Fever – Frank McCourt
Tucson Zoo –Lewis Thomas
On Women’s Right to Vote – Susan B. Anthony
I’ve Been to the Mountain Top – Martin Luther King Jr.
They Said He Was a Lousy Speaker – Douglas Wilson
The American Cause – John Dos Passos
Grammar:
subject – verb agreement
active / passive voice
dashes
subjective mood
Writing:
Persuasive letter
Expository essay – persuasive
Research Report
Academic Vocabulary
Biography / autobiography / memoir
Expository
Persuasive
Rhetoric
Appeals / ethos, pathos, logos
Diction / style
3rd Six Weeks – Poetry
Readings:
O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman
Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden
Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day – Shakespeare
Reapers – Jean Toomer
Ode to My Socks – Pablo Neruda
A Storm in the Mountains – A. Solzhenitsyn
Haiku / Tanka – various authors
Woman With Kite – Chitra Divakanni
Heart! We Will Forget Him –E. Dickinson
Grammar:
pronoun / antecedent agreement
gerunds
Commas
Writing:
Analytical essay
Haiku
Narrative poem
After Pain Comes Great Feeling – E. Dickinson
The Meadow Mouse – Theodore Roethke
I am Offering This Poem – Jimmy Baco
Since feeling is first – e e cummings
Dream Boogie – Langston Hughes
Motto – Langston Hugues
Ballad of Birmingham – Dudley Randall
Academic Vocabulary:
narrative / lyric
figurative language / metaphor
imagery / personification
meter / foot / sonnet form
iambic pentameter
4th Six Weeks – Drama
Readings
Grammar:
Antigone – Sophocles
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
A Marriage Proposal – Anton Chekhov
That’s Your Trouble – Harold Pinter
commas/parenthetical expressions
parallel construction
Writing:
Descriptive essay
expository essay – character
editorial
Academic vocabulary:
analtragedy/comedy/farce
monologue /soliloquy / aside
Protagonist / antagonist
Tragic hero
Irony: verbal, situational, dramatic
5th Six Weeks – Legends and Myths
Readings:
Journey of Gilgamesh
Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
Sundiata – D.T. Niane
The Stealing of Thor’ Hammer- Brian Branston
Theseus- Edith Hamilton
John Henry – Z. N. Hurston
A Song of Greatness – Anonymous
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Grammar:
word origins – Greek, Latin
main and subordinate clauses
transitional expressions
Writing:
Tall tale
expository essay – research report
Academic vocabulary:
legend, myth, tall tale,
epic, archetype
6th Six Weeks – Fiction
Readings:
The Happy Man’s Shirt – Italo Calvino
By the Waters of Babylon – Stephen Vincent Benet
The Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie
Grammar:
dangling participles / semi-colons
verbs as nouns
Writing:
Blurbs
Book review
Academic vocabulary:
Genre
Critique
Style / diction