English IV - 1st Block Spring 2018

This course will focus on reading and comprehending British Literature, including fiction and literary nonfiction, in the grades 11-12 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Throughout the course students will write routinely over extended time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audience, with a focus on a major research paper. Attention will be given to accurately using general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level.  Students will write a research paper for their EOC grade. 

Essential Learning Objectives:

1. Support analysis of a complex set of ideas or sequence of events through relevant textual evidence and an objective summary. 

2. Analyze multiple themes or central ideas of a text by synthesizing their development through the authors' choices of literary elements.

3. Distinguish among authors' claims and rhetorical techniques to advance their purpose, especially texts of historical significance. 

4. Produce essays that follow the designated writing prompt with attention to appropriate format, transitional words, grammar, and punctuation with emphasis on advanced sentence structures and vocabulary usage.

Writing Objectives:

Following the conventions of standard grammar rules, students will be able to follow a guided format in demonstrating the following writing types: narrative writing, explanatory/informational writing, and argumentative writing.