COURSE TITLE: ENGLISH 12
ROOM: B 1.24
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The AFNORTH International Grade Twelve
Language Arts course is based on British Literature. In the literature component, students read and respond orally,
visually, or in writing to British Literature from 449 A.D. to the
present. Students create visual images
in their writing through literary devices such as figurative language and
sensory detail. They arrange thoughts
clearly and logically, formulate hypotheses, articulate responses to complex
spoken and media messages, paraphrase and summarize to increase
understanding. Students also interpret
ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and nuances in literature and
analyze character roles, emotional reactions and motives of characters. They learn to explain how new words enter
languages and how meanings evolve over time, and use this understanding of
diversity in dialects to be more perceptive communicators.
Upon completion of the Language Arts 12 course, students should be able to:
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
British Literature
from 449 A.D. to the present will be studied chronologically. The following is
a list of major texts, but does not include all works that will be studied.
First Quarter:
1.
Anglo-Saxon/Medieval
Period 440-1485
The Canterbury Tales (The Prologue and The Pardoner’s Tale)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Le Morte d’Arthur
2.
The English Renaissance – 1485-1660 Poetry and Sonnets
3.
Writing – reading logs (25 books), review of writing
process, figurative language, expressive writing, narrative (fictional or
autobiographical) account, functional documents to include resume, letter of
application, college essay based on significant personal event;
historical/political essay for outside reading
4.
Independent Novel Study Guide – personal response to
writing
Second Quarter:
1.
The English Renaissance 1485-1660- Drama –
2.
The Restoration and Enlightenment 1660-1798 – Essays
A Modest Proposal
A Vindication of the Rights of
Women
3.
Writing – I search report, multimedia presentation and
reflective essay on
Contemporary
social issue/situation; Two literary analysis papers, one Shakespeare play and
one on the Restoration and Englightenment
4.
Independent Novel Study – personal response to novel
Third Quarter:
1.
The Flowering of Romanticism – 1798 – 1832 – poetry
Selections by Wordsworth, Shelley,
and Keats
2.
The Victorians 1832 – 1901 Novel Study
Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen
Independent Novel Study: choices may include Tess of the
D’Urbervilles, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, or
Dorian Gray
3.
Victorian Poetry – Selections from Tennyson, Browning,
Barrett Browning,
Arnold, Hopkins, Houseman
4. Victorian Drama –The Importance of Being Ernest
4.
Writing – critical analysis of text, comparison of
literature with its media counterpart (film, tape, radio, television, ballet,
artistic presentation)
Fourth Quarter:
1.
Modernism 1902 – 1950
Short Story Selections by Eliot,
Wodehouse, Woolf, Saki, Joyce,
Lawrence
Poetry Selections by Yeats,
Brooke, Owen, Eliot, Thomas
Churchill’s speeches
Novel Study: 1984
2.
Contemporary Voices 1950 – present – short storied,
poems, films
3.
Writing – persuasive essay/editorial – critique of
public policy
book/film review
analysis of public performance/speech/document
COURSE GRADING/ASSESSMENT
The
course will be graded on points. Exams and projects are usually worth 100
points. Homework assignments will range
from 5-20 points, depending on the length of the assignment. Other forms of assessment will include oral
presentations, quizzes, projects and essays.
The point value of each assignment will be announced when the assignment
is given.
You
will be required to read 25 books during the year. You will keep a reading log of the books. Each quarter you will
be required to complete AT LEAST 5 of these books!
At
the end of the semester, the first quarter will count for 40% of the grade, the
second quarter will be 40% of the grade and the final exam will be 20% of the
grade.
CONTINUOUS SCHOOL PROGRESS
AFNORTH
International Middle/High School’s CSP goal is, “All students will improve
their written communication skills across the curriculum.” The 6+ 1 trait is
the model selected to improve school-wide writing in all subject areas. The 6+ 1 trait writing framework is a
powerful way to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of
writing as well as establish a common vision of what “strong” writing looks
like. Teachers and students will use
the 6+1 trait model to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses as they
continue to strive towards continued writing improvement. In this class we will be using the 6+1 trait
on all writing assignments including creative writing, essays, research papers,
and literary analysis.
CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS
Respect
yourself by doing your work, listening and participating.
Respect
me by being cooperative and attentive.
Respect
your school by taking care of materials and using them properly.
Respect your peers by being quiet during lectures and doing
your fair share of group work.
Kinneavy, James L., and John E. Warriner, eds. The Elements of Writing.
New York:
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1998.
The Language of Literature – British
Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougall
Littell,
1997.
Interactive Reader-British Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougall Littell, 1997.
Blue or black pens, pencils,
Loose-leaf paper
MAKE UP WORK POLICY
If
you are absent, you have as many days as you were absent to make up
assignments. It is your responsibility
to get your work when you have been absent.
Labs and tests will be made up during the next seminar day unless other
arrangements are made.
For
unexcused late work, you will be penalized 25% for each day that it is late.
You
must keep up with assignments in order to succeed!