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2013-14 Syllabus for English IV
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NOTE: The calendar this year has changed to a
9-week grading period. There are only 2 grading
periods per semester! Each of those and the
exam count 33 1/3%.
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FIRST SEMESTER
1st Grading Period
Vocabulary:
 Pretest
 Academic vocabulary (words collected
from ACT)
 Literary vocabulary terms per genre and
period of literature study
Writing:
 Summarization
 Technical writing
 Informational, persuasive, and narrative
writing styles with both literature and
informational texts
 Using quotations and paraphrases in
writing
Speaking and Listening:
 How to speak in public
Research:
 Internet reliability and validity – finding
the best sources
 How to do paperless research
 Citation formats
 Annotated bibliographies
Literature:
 The Anglo-Saxon Period
o The Ballad
o Beowulf
 The Medieval Period
o Chaucer and The Canterbury
Tales – Prologue
o Le Morte D’Arthur or Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight
 Renaissance Literature
o Shakespeare’s Sonnets 29 and
116
Speech before the Spanish
Armada Invasion
Paradise Lost – excerpts
John Donne – Holy Sonnet 10
and Meditation 17
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2 Grading Period
Vocabulary:
 Academic vocabulary (words collected
from ACT)
 Literary vocabulary terms per genre and
period of literature study
Writing:
 Paraphrasing and summarizing
 Using quotations and paraphrases in
writing
Speaking and Listening:
 Project-based learning – performance
project on persuasion
Research:
 Research paper:
o Gathering information and
outlining
o Writing
o Citation formats
o Annotated bibliographies
Literature:
 Renaissance literature - The Tragedy of
Macbeth
 Restoration and 18th Century literature
o A Modest Proposal
o The Diary of Samuel Pepys
SECOND SEMESTER
3rd Grading Period
Vocabulary:
 Academic vocabulary (collected from
ACT)
 Literary vocabulary terms per genre and
period of literature study
Writing:
 Paraphrasing and summarizing
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Technical writing – emails, proposals,
resumes
Research:
 Reading and writing from informational
texts
Literature:
 The Romantic Period
o Songs of Innocence/Songs of
Experience
o The World Is Too Much with Us
o Kubla Khan
o Ozymandias
o Ode to a Grecian Urn
o She Walks in Beauty
 The Victorians
o In Memoriam
o My Last Duchess
o Christmas Storms and Sunshine
o Christmas Afternoon (Bedford
Reader)
 Required Novel - 1984
4th Grading Period
Vocabulary:
 Literary vocabulary terms per genre and
period of literature study
 Transitional words
Writing:
 Writing the persuasive speech
 Writing the commemorative speech
 Using rhetorical devices in speeches
Speaking and Listening:
 Presentation of
persuasive/commemorative speech
Research:
 Famous commemorative speeches
 Analysis of rhetorical devices
Literature:
 The Naming of Cats
 The Rocking Horse Winner
 Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
 A Devoted Son
 Churchill’s “The Speeches”