12 th Grade English CP, British Literature

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1 East Penn School District Secondary Curriculum A Planned Course Statement for 12 th Grade English CP, British iterature Course # 136 Grade(s) 12 Department: English ength of Period (mins.) 40 Total Clock Hours: 120 Periods per Cycle: 6 ength of Course (yrs.) 1.0 Type of Offering: required elective Credit: 1.0 Adopted: 6/2006 Developed by: Nichole Cavanaugh Diane DiDona Derek Grabfelder Susan Arnold Tony Kohl Aaron Gavin

2 Description of Course Course Title: 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature - #136 Description: In the twelfth grade English C. P. British iterature course, the students should develop an understanding of the evolution and development of British iterature from the Anglo-Saxon to the Contemporary periods. An emphasis will be placed on genre, theme, and historical significance of the literature. In the composition component of the course the students will write complete compositions, essays, and a research paper with an emphasis on the basic elements of expository composition and literary analysis. Goals: Critical and analytical thinking skills will be stressed in writing and analysis of literature. In the vocabulary section of the course the students are expected to develop their writing vocabulary. In addition, the students should develop a knowledge and application of grammar, usage, and mechanics as part of the writing program. equirements: Students will be required to read an extensive amount of the literature of Great Britain for inclass discussion and in-class and out-of-class writing assignments. Additionally, they will be required to listen, to think, to analyze, and to synthesize. They will be required to participate orally on a daily basis. They will be required to write at least one analysis on an outside reading of an approved novel. Students will be required to participate in a major documented written research project using the high school library (and other libraries) culminating in a typed manuscript. Additional in-class and out-of-class writing assignments will be at the discretion of the teacher. Students will be required to study vocabulary and writing skills formally. The study of formal grammar will be included in conjunction with writing assignments. Students will be required to take midterm and final examinations. Students will be required to spend eight periods utilizing the library and library research skills. Texts, primary source, and reference materials: Glencoe iterature: The eader s Choice, British iterature, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2002 Adgar oberts, Writing Themes about iterature, 4 th Edition. Prentice Hall, 1977; Fifth Edition, 1983; Sixth Edition, Vocabulary Power Plus, Book 4, Prestwick House 2004 Warriner s English Grammar and Composition (Complete Course), Heritage Edition. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977

3 Key to evels of Achievement (isted with each learning objective) Awareness (A): earning (): Understanding (U): einforcement (): Students are introduced to concepts, forms, and patterns. Students are involved in a sequence of steps and practice activities which involved further development and allow evaluation of process. Students demonstrate ability to apply acquired concepts and skills to individual assignments and projects on an independent level. Students maintain and broaden understanding of concepts and skills to accomplish tasks at a greater level of sophistication.

4 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 1 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard Overreaching iterature Objectives 1 Students will recognize and distinguish various iterary Periods: Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, enaissance, Age of eason, Victorian, Modernism, Contemporary 2 Students will recognize that literature is a product of historical, social, and philosophical content in which it was written. 3 Students will define and recognize figurative language and literary devices in literature 4 Students will define and recognize various stylistic techniques particular to the literary periods Anglo-Saxon 5 Students will understand the elements of an epic Medieval 6 Students will understand the structure of a ballad. 7 Students will discern satirical elements in Chaucer s works. All literature periods s U All literature periods U All literature periods All literature periods Beowulf Ballads Get Up and Bar the Door Sir Patrick Spence Bonny Barbara Allan Chaucer The Canterbury Tales General Prologue The Pardoner s Tale The Wife of Bath s Tale D-H A C A-C A A A-C A C-E A B

5 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 2 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard 8 Students will recognize methods of characterization. enaissance 9 Students will understand the structure of Elizabethan sonnets. 10 Students will analyze the structure of an essay. 11 Students will recognize elements of the pastoral. 12 Students will identify elements of metaphysical writing. Ballads Get Up and Bar the Door Sir Patrick Spence Bonny Barbara Allan Chaucer The Canterbury Tales General Prologue The Pardoner s Tale The Wife of Bath s Tale Malory The Morte d Arthur, The Day of Destiny Edmund Spencer Sonnet 30 Shakepeare s Sonnets Sonnet 116, 130, 73, 29 Francis Bacon Of Studies Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to his ove Sir Walter aleigh The Nymph s eply to the Shepherd King James Bible Psalm 23 John Donne Death Be Not Proud Meditation D

6 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 3 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard 13 Students will recognize a carpé diem poem. 14 Students will identify the elements of Cavalier poetry. Elizabethan Drama 15 Students will recognize the elements of a Shakespearean tragedy (soliloquy, tragic flaw, aside, blank verse) Age of eason 16 Students will discern satirical elements. omanticism 17 Students will understand Blake s theory of opposites. obert Herrick To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time ichard ovelace To Althea, From Prison Shakespeare Macbeth Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison and Sir ichard Steele The Spectator Thomas Gray Elegy in a Country Churchyard Samuel Johnson Dictionary etter to Chesterfield William Blake The amb, The Tyger B C B

7 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 4 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard 18 Students will identify the elements of romantic poetry. Victorians 19 Students will recognize the effective use of imagery and rhyme with poetry. Twentieth Century 20 Students will identify and analyze the influence of world events on literature. obert Burns To a Mouse William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much With Us My Heart eaps Up Samuel Taylor Coleridge ime of the Ancient Mariner ord Byron She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias John Keats Ode on a Grecian Unr Matthew Arnold Dover Beach A.E. Hausman To an Athlete Dying Young upert Brooke The Soldier Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est Siegfried Sassoon Dreamers William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Virginia Woolf A oom of One s Own Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning Elizabeth Bowen The Demon over Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Seamus Heaney The Follower, D

8 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 5 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard Outside eadings 21 Students will complete an independent analysis of literary work. Writing/ esearch 22 Students will write a literary analysis paper of five to eight pages. 23 Students will use all parts of the writing process. 24 Students will utilize the library reference materials and online catalogue to locate sources to support their literary analysis. U U Nonfiction Frank McCourt Angela s Ashes Fiction Nick Hornby About a Boy O Thomas Hardy eturn of the Native O Great British Short Stories O 1984 O Teacher selected titles for written analysis Student selected text--british novel Student selected text--british novel Student selected text--british novel Writing assignment Writing assignment Writing assignment College Essay 25 Students will write a personal essay Writing assignment Grammar 26 Students will utilize grammar to U Parallelism Tests, quizzes, writing improve the fluidity and clarity of Active/Passive voice assignment their writing Modifier Usage Vocabulary 27 Vocabulary Units 1-18 Tests, quizzes, presentations, homework A-F B A A-B B A-G A-C A A-B B A-G F A-C A A-B B A-G F A-C -E A-F F C E C

9 Course Objectives 12 th Grade English, CP, British iterature Page 6 Unit Num Objective evel Content Evaluation Standard Composition 28 Students will write logically developed, 5-paragraph compositions containing an organizational central idea and thesis statement. 29 Students will write full period, timed essays. Speaking 30 Students will demonstrate fluency and correctness in a variety of oral forums. PA s academic standards writing domains: focus, content, organization, style, and conventions Writing process Writing based on literature selections from the course and self-selected literature PA s academic standards writing domains: focus, content, organization, style, and conventions Writing process Writing based on literature selections from the course and self-selected literature 3-5 minute oral presentation related to a literary study Various teacher directed oral projects Writing samples 5-paragraph essays Short answer responses Writing samples 5-paragraph essays Short answer responses Individual/group oral presentations Class participation Class discussion Small/large group discussion B C B-F B C B-F A-F