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Unit 1: Short Story – Plot and Setting
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English II Course Curriculum
46 Combine Sentences – Adjective Clauses
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Elements of Short Story
47 Combine Sentences – Summary
2
Elements of Short Story – Hemmingway
48 Vocabulary Drill – Word Parts II
3
Short Story – Setting
4
Short Story – Plot
5
Short Story – The Open Window
50 Short Story – Narrator, Point of View
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7
Saki – Plot – Flashback
Saki – Sequence of Events
51 Short Story – Voice
52 Everyday Use – Alice Walker
8
Vocabulary Drill – Context Clues
53 Everyday Use – Point of View
9
Twain – The Californian’s Tale
54 Everyday Use – Tone, Voice
49 Writing Tip – Dialogue
Unit 5: Short Story – Narrator, Voice
10 Twain – Foreshadowing
55 Everyday Use – Theme
11 Twain – Cause and Effect Relationships
56 Grammar Drill – Prepositional Phrases
12 Vocabulary Drill – Word Parts I
57 Interpreting Imagery
13 Grammar Tip – Semicolons
58 Through the Tunnel – Doris Lessing
Unit 2: Short Story – Cultural Context
59 Through the Tunnel – Point of View
14 Narayan – An Astrologer’s Day
60 Through the Tunnel – Conflict
15 An Astrologer’s Day – Cultural Context
61 Through the Tunnel – Theme
16 An Astrologer’s Day – Foreshadowing
62 Dear Pie – Scott Fitzgerald
17 An Astrologer’s Day – Mood
63 Vocabulary Drill – Antonyms
18 Short Story – Interpreting Imagery
19 Vocabulary Drill – Word Origins
64 Academic Vocabulary II
Unit 6: Short Story – Science Fiction, Mystery
20 Grammar Tip – Possessives
65 Genres of Fiction
21 Achebe – Civil Peace
66 Figures of Speech
22 Civil Peace – Historical Context
67 By the Waters of Babylon – Benet
23 Civil Peace – Dialect
68 By the Waters of Babylon – Moral
24 Vocabulary – Denotation and Connotation I
69 Academic Vocabulary III
25 Grammar Tip – Colon
70 Grammar Tip – Sentence Fragments
26 Academic Vocabulary I
71 A Sound of Thunder – Ray Bradbury
Unit 3: Short Story – Theme, Character
72 A Sound of Thunder – Foreshadowing
27 Short Story Theme
73 A Sound of Thunder – Vivid Language
28 Short Story – Finding Theme
74 Academic Vocabulary IV
29 Short Story – Character
75 Grammar Tip – Dangling Participles
30 Short Story – Author Characterization
76 The Unicorn in the Garden – Thurber
31 When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine – Lahiri
77 Writing Tip – Characterization II
32 Mr. Pirzada – Setting
78 Grammar Tip – Italics
33 Mr. Pirzada – Theme
79 Writing Tip – Building Suspense
34 Mr. Pirzada – Characterization
Unit 7: Nonfiction
35 Vocabulary – Multiple-Meaning Words
80 Nonfiction – Overview
36 Analogies I
81 Identifying Nonfiction
37 Writing Tip – Characterization
82 Narrative Nonfiction – Biography
Unit 4: Short Story – Characterization
83 from De Kooning – An American Master
38 The Censors – Luisa Valenzuela
84 De Kooning – Making Generalizations
39 The Censors – Satire
85 De Kooning – Author Purpose
40 The Censors – Author’s Message
86 Vocabulary – Denotation, Connotation II
41 Combine Sentences – Prepositions
87 Conducting an Interview
42 Combine Sentences – Appositives
88 Vocabulary Drill – Jargon
43 Combine Sentences – Participles
89 Living Well. Living Good – M. Angelou
44 Combine Sentences – Coordinating Conjunctions
90 Living Well – Characterization
45 Combine Sentences – Subordinate Conjunctions
91 Academic Vocabulary V
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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
English II Course Curriculum
92 Analogies II
Unit 11: Nonfiction – Speeches
93 from Eudora Welty – Narrative Techniques
137 Persuasive Speech – Analysis
Unit 8: Writing Lab – Biography
138 Persuasive Speech – Rhetorical Devices
94 Writing a Biography – Overview
139 I’ve Been to the Mountaintop – King
95 Biography – Choose Subject, Research
140 Mountaintop – Distinguish Fact, Opinion
96 Biography – Establish Focus
141 Mountaintop – Rhetorical Devices
97 Biography – Make an Outline
142 Grammar Tip – Hyphens
98 Biography – Create a Draft
143 Academic Vocabulary VIII
99 Biography – Revise
144 A Time for Choosing – Ronald Reagan
100 Biography – Sentence Structure, Style
145 A Time for Choosing – Analyze Argument
101 Biography – Action Verbs
146 A Time for Choosing – Structure
102 Biography – Using Adjectives
147 Transitions
103 Biography – Edit, Proofread
148 Elements of Persuasive Speaking
104 Biography – Publish – Present
Unit 12: Poetry – Form
Unit 9: Nonfiction – Autobiography / Memoirs
149 Poetry – Form, Language, Sound
105 Nonfiction – Autobiography – Memoir
150 Poetry – Form, Structure
106 Farewell to Manzanar – Houston
151 Poetry – Language
107 Manzanar – Historical Narrative
152 Poetry – Sound
108 Manzanar – Cultural Setting
153 O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman
109 Manzanar – Author Purpose
154 O Captain! My Captain! – Poetic Devices
110 Vocabulary Drill – Word Parts III
155 Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden
111 Grammar Tip – Dashes
156 Those Winter Sundays – Structure, Tone
112 Academic Vocabulary VI
157 Shall I Compare Thee – Shakespeare
113 Terwilliger Bunts One – Annie Dillard
158 Shall I Compare Thee – Meter, Rhythm
114 Terwilliger Bunts One – Idioms
159 Vocabulary Drill – Homonym, Homophone
115 Terwilliger Bunts One – Anecdote
160 Vocabulary Drill – Comparative, Superlative
116 Vocabulary Drill – Context Clues II
161 Vocabulary Drill – Comparing Pronouns
117 Grammar Tip – Subject-Verb Agreement I
162 Academic Vocabulary IX
118 Grammar Tip – Subject-Verb Agreement II
Unit 13: Poetry – Language
119 Vocabulary Drill – Synonyms
163 Storm in the Mountains – Solzhenitsyn
Unit 10: Nonfiction – Essays
164 Storm in the Mountains – Imagery
120 Essay – Personal, Expository, Persuasive
165 Analogies IV
121 Personal Essay – Structure, Style, Theme
166 Grammar – Clear Pronoun Antecedent
122 Straw Into Gold – Cisneros
167 Grammar – Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
123 Straw Into Gold – Personal Essay
168 The Print of the Paw – Scott Momaday
124 Writing Tip – Personal Essay
169 The Print of the Paw – Speaker
125 Analogies III
170 To An Aged Bear – Compare-Contrast
126 Expository Essay – Structure, Style
171 Academic Vocabulary X
127 The Tucson Zoo – Lewis Thomas
172 Vocabulary Drill – Word Origins II
128 The Tucson Zoo – Figurative Language
173 Haiku – Matsou Basho – Imagery
129 Writing Tip – Expository Essay
174 Woman with Kite – Chitra Divakaruni
130 Academic Vocabulary VII
175 Woman with Kite – Making Inferences
131 Grammar Tip – Active, Passive Voice
176 Vocabulary Drill – Word Parts IV
132 Persuasive Essay
Unit 14: Poetry – Imagery
133 The Crisis – Thomas Paine
177 After Great Pain – Emily Dickinson
134 The Crisis – Analyzing Argument
178 After Great Pain – Diction
135 Writing Tip – Persuasive Essay
179 Heart! We Will Forget Him! – Imagery
136 Grammar Tip – Run-on Sentences
180 Grammar – Absolutes, Absolute Phrases
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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
English II Course Curriculum
181 Academic Vocabulary XI
208 Comedy – Satire, Farce, Irony
182 Grammar Tip – Semicolons, Transitions
209 The Proposal – Anton Chekhov
183 The Meadow Mouse – Theodore Roethke
210 The Proposal – Irony
184 The Meadow Mouse – Mood
211 Grammar Tip – Verbals
185 Grammar Tip – Quotations in Literature
212 Grammar Tip – Verbals – Participles
186 Vocabulary Drill – Synonyms, Antonyms
213 Grammar Tip – Verbals – Gerunds
187 Down by the Salley Gardens – Yeats
214 Grammar Tip – Verbals – Infinitives
188 Cloths of Heaven – Lyric Poem
215 Academic Vocabulary XIV
189 Vocabulary Drill – Context Clues III
216 Comma Workshop – Comma Basics
190 Grammar – Introductory Transitions
217 Comma Workshop – Appositives
Unit 15: Poetry – Sound Devices
218 Comma Workshop – Transitions
191 I Am Offering This Poem – Jimmy Baca
Unit 17: Drama – Tragedy
192 since feeling is first – E.E. Cummings
219 Drama – Tragedy
193 Academic Vocabulary XII
220 Shakespeare – Shakespearean Drama
194 After Apple-Picking – Robert Frost
221 Julius Caesar – Introduction
195 After Apple-Picking – Sound Devices
222 The Language of Shakespeare
196 Choose Something Like a Star – Imagery
223 Julius Caesar – Act I – Characterization
197 Analogies V
224 Julius Caesar – Act I – Foreshadowing
198 Grammar Tip – Comparing with Adverbs
225 Julius Caesar – Paraphrasing
199 Arabic Coffee – Naomi Shihab Nye
226 Julius Caesar – Act II – Monologue
200 Academic Vocabulary XIII
227 Julius Caesar – Act II – Irony, Suspense
201 Daybreak in Alabama – Langston Hughes
228 Grammar Tip – Adverb Clauses
202 Daybreak in Alabama – Theme, Tone
229 Julius Caesar – Act III – Imagery
203 Vocabulary – Denotation-Connotation III
230 Julius Caesar – Act III – Rhetoric
204 Grammar Tip – Pronouns – Subject, Object
231 Loaded Words – Denotation, Connotation
205 When I Heard the Astronomer – Whitman
232 Julius Caesar – Act IV – Foil
Unit 16: Drama – Comedy
233 Julius Caesar – Act IV – Theme
206 Elements of Drama
234 Julius Caesar – Act V – Tragic Hero
207 Drama – Form, Structure
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