COURSE DESCRIPTIONLANGUAGE ARTS: English IV This is a class that will prepare students for the skills they will need to be successful in college and in life. When they have completed the class, students will have acquired the reading and critical thinking skills necessary for understanding challenging new material, analyzing that material to deduce meaning, and applying what they have learned to our world. They will have the composition skills needed to communicate their understanding effectively to a variety of audiences. Students will read and analyze classic works of literature because these works contain literary qualities that merit study and provoke thinking, not because of a requirement to know a particular work or author. They will also look at modern and contemporary works as they examine all genres: plays, short stories, poetry, essays, and novels. Students will learn to apply critical literary terms as tools for learning, understanding, and communication. Learning activities include close reading, paraphrasing, discussions, essays, short answer exams, research papers, reflective journals, web quests, oral presentations, and others. The unit structure below identifies the main headings of the units only. Most units will include a combination of genres and activities. The structure to the class is not based upon a sequence of chronology, national origin, or genres. It is instead based upon the sequence that best supports the learning needs of the student. PREREQUISITES: English III
COURSE LENGTH: Two Semesters
REQUIRED TEXT: Selected Novels COURSE OUTLINE Semester I 1. Unit One: Introduction to the course
2. Unit Two: Observing, Thinking and Learning: an introduction to the analysis of literature
3. Unit Three: Oedipus the King; Persuasive essay
4. Unit Five: Reading Skills and Literary Terms: Tools for Understanding
5. Novel: Introduction to Literary Research
6. Unit Seven: Research Paper
7. Unit Eight: Poetry Analysis
8. Unit Nine: Exam Review Semester II 1. Unit One: Medieval Literature
2. Unit Two: Hamlet
3. Unit Three: Romanticism
4. Unit Four: Realism and the 20th Century: The Changing Focus of Literature
5. Unit Five: Independent Thematic Study: the Individual in Society |
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