Curriculum Guide 12th Grade English Unit 1: Evaluation of ...

[Pages:18]Curriculum Guide 12th Grade English

Unit 1: Evaluation of summer reading of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1 week

LA12.1, 12.4, 12.5, 12.10

Objectives

Methods

The students will

? Independent

? read, understand, and

reading over the

analyze the novel's plot and

summer

themes

? Lecture

? evaluate the novel's

? Discussion

characterization

? write a literary analysis

essay on the novel

? avoid all major

grammatical, usage, and

stylistic errors in their

writing

Resources

Assessment

? Pride and Prejudice ? Quiz on

by Jane Austen

characters and

? Various literary

plot

critiques of the novel ? Literary analysis

? Teacher-made list of

essay

thesis statements

? Teacher-made

? Student checklist

rubric for the

? Video of movie

essay ? Student checklist

Unit 2: The Reading Process: Becoming a Strong Reader

1 week

LA12.5

Objectives

Methods

The students will

? Lecture

? Develop an understanding ? Discussion

of active reading and develop a three stage

? Reading, discussion, and

approach through an

application of

overview of the selection, secondary stage annotation techniques for more focused reading and in the third stage, create an evaluation checklist to review the selection for the

Ecclesiastes 12:10, 11 ? Student practice exercises, individually and in groups

thesis effectiveness, unified

flow of ideas, stylistic

devices, sentence structure

and diction.

?

Resources

? Textbook: Pearson Longman, The Longman Writer, Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook, chapter 1

? Student-generated samples

? Bibles

Assessment

? Exercises from text, chapter 9

? Various essays written throughout the year

? Test

Unit 3: The Writing Process: Prewriting

2 weeks

LA12.3, 12.4, 12.5

Objectives

Methods

The students will

? Lecture

? use prewriting strategies to ? Discussion

generate ideas before

? Reading and

starting the first draft of a

evaluating sample

paper

informal essays

? clarify ideas by ignoring ? Examination of

our internal critic in order

guidelines for

to create random

informal essays in

associations that tap the

textbook

minds ability to make unusual connections ? keep a journal to keep a

? Pre-writing and revision class activities

record of their observations ? Student practice

and unique perspectives on

exercises from

events that they might

chapter 2, both

normally ignore

individually and in

? determine the purpose,

groups

tone, audience and point of

view of a writing

assignment through

identifying the expectations

of the instructor, the

sentence structure,

conveying the emotional

states, the word choice as it

determines tone, and the

point of view which is tied

to purpose, audience, and

subject

? develop web diagrams to

assist in developing writing

ideas and strategies

Resources ? Textbook: Pearson

Longman, The Longman Writer, Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook, chapter 2 ? Student essays from previous years (anonymous) ? Students' own rough drafts of informal essays ? Rubric for an informal essay

Assessment

? Exercises from text, chapter 2

? Essay for college entrance

? Grammar correction in prewriting essay

? Final copy

Unit 4: Clear Reference and Placement of Modifiers

1 week

LA12.4, 12.5

Objectives

Methods

Resources

Assessment

The students will

? Lecture

? Textbook: Warriner's ? Exercises from

? make each pronoun clearly ? Discussion

English Grammar

text, chapters 12

refer to it antecedent

? Analysis of the

and Composition,

and 13

? avoid ambiguous references

modifying phrases

Complete Course,

? Responses on

in which a pronoun refers

and their placement

chapter 12 and 13

worksheets from

confusingly to two

in Phil. 2:5-11

? Editor in Chief:

Editor in Chief

antecedents, a general idea, ? Student practice

Grammar Disasters ? Test on chapters

or an unstated antecedent

exercises from

and Punctuation

12 and 13

? avoid indefinite use of

chapters 12 and 13,

Faux Pas

? Revision of

pronouns it, they, and you

both individually ? Student essays from

previously

? place phrase and clause

and in groups

previous years

written essays

modifiers as near as

? Student editing on

(anonymous)

? Various essays

possible to the words they

worksheets from ? Students' own final

written

modify

Editor in Chief

drafts of informal

throughout the

? avoid writing sentences in ? Peer evaluation of

essays and literary

year

which a modifying phrase

essays

analysis essays on

? Participation in

has no word that it can sensibly modify

? Revisions of essays

David Copperfield

? Student checklist

class discussions ? Student checklist

? avoid placing a modifier

where it can be taken to

modify either of two words

Unit 5 Sentence Conciseness, Combining, and Revising

1 ? weeks

LA12.4, 12.5

Objectives

Methods

Resources

Assessment

The students will

? Lecture

? Textbook: Warriner's ? Exercises from

? eliminate unnecessary

? Discussion

English Grammar

text, chapters 16,

words and repetition

? Group revision of

and Composition,

17, and 18

? reduce clauses to phrases

samples on

Complete Course,

? Participation in

and phrases to single words

overhead

chapter 16, 17, and

class discussions

? avoid using an overwritten ? Student practice

style in their writings

exercises from

18

? Revision of

? Student essays from

previously

? combine short, related

chapters 16, 17,

previous years

written essays

sentences by inserting

and 18, both

(anonymous)

? Various essays

adjectives, adverbs, and

individually and in ? Students' own final

written

prepositional phrases

groups

drafts of cause /

throughout the

? combine closely related

? Peer evaluation of

effect essays

year

sentences by using

essays

? Samples of familiar ? Student checklist

participial and appositive ? Revisions of essays

proverbs re-written in

phrases

an overwritten style

? combine short, related

? Student checklist

sentences by using

compound subjects and

verbs and compound

sentences

? combine short, related

sentences into a complex

sentence

? make their writing more

interesting and varied by

beginning some sentences

with a transposed

appositive, single word,

phrase, or clause

? use subordination to avoid

the exclusive use of simple

and compound sentences

? avoid the overuse of and

and so by subordinating

ideas and by dividing a

stringy sentence into two

sentences

? revise sentences to correct

structural inadequacies and

to eliminate awkwardness

Unit 6 Anglo-Saxon Literature / History of the English Language

2 weeks

LA12.1, 12.2, 12.3

Objectives

Methods

Resources

Assessment

The students will

? Lecture

? Textbook: Warriner's ? Quiz on

? recognize English as an

? Discussion

English Grammar and

identification of

Indo-European language ? Looking up

Composition, Complete

Old, Middle,

? recognize the relationships

etymologies of

Course, chapter 23

and early

between English and other

various words

? Introduction to English

modern samples

languages

? Watch portions of

Literature, A Beka, unit ? Participation in

? recognize and discern

video

one

class discussions

between the unique

? Listen to portions ? Handbook to the

? Responses to

characteristics of Old,

of tapes

History of the English

exercises from

Middle, and early modern English ? recognize the etymological

? Practice exercises from textbook, chapter 23

Language ? Collegiate dictionaries ? Video series, The Story

grammar text ? Application of

Romans 12:17-

sources of modern English words in earlier forms of English and other

? Group and

of English, PBS

21 to Beowulf

individual reading ? Samples of "The Lord's ? Application of

Prayer" in Old, Middle,

Lamentations

languages

and modern English

3:19-24 to "The

? memorize, understand,

? Audio cassettes with

Seafarer"

analyze, and evaluate five

readings from Beowulf ? Teacher-made

characteristics of Anglo-

in Old English

test

Saxon literature ? read and comprehend

excerpts from Beowulf, "The Seafarer", and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ? define wyrd, scop, caesura, kenning ? apply scriptural principles to literature from the Anglo-Saxon Period

? Beowulf poster ? Grendel by John

Gardner ? The English Literature

Book of Writing Prompts by S Ennis ? Worksheets on AngloSaxon poetry and Old English words, taken from Prentice-Hall's

? Student made Grendel moms from playdough

British Literature

? Bibles

Unit 7 Medieval Literature

3 weeks

LA12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5

Objectives

Methods

Resources

Assessment

The students will

? Lecture

? Introduction to English ? Quiz on Becket

? recognize, analyze, and

? Discussion

Literature, A Beka, unit ? Participation in

evaluate the characteristics of ? Group and

two

class discussions

the Medieval Period to its

individual

? Video of Becket

? Responses on

literature

reading

? Audio cassette with

worksheet

? understand the unique

? Student writing,

readings from The

? In-class writing

influence of the Roman

individually and

Canterbury Tales in

? Teacher-made

Catholic Church on medieval

in groups

Middle English

test

life in England

? Listening to

? Worksheets on

? Student

? recognize, understand and

audio cassette

medieval romance,

checklist

appreciate the influence of

? Watching and

making inferences,

? Castle project

French and Latin in

discussing video

courtly love, names as ? Teacher-made

developing Middle English

? Tracing how

symbols, and morality

rubric for castle

? read and understand several

either dress or

plays, taken from P-H's

project

medieval ballads

food reveals

British Literature

? Canterbury

? write original ballads in groups

character in

? Poster of King Arthur

Tales Prologue

? identify Christ-like

Chaucer's

? The English Literature

character project

characteristics of King Arthur

Prologue

Book of Writing

? rubric

as presented in "Sir Gawain

Prompts by S Ennis

provided

and the Green Knight" and an

? Picture of Chaucer

excerpt from Morte Darthur ? memorize and understand

? Geoffrey Chaucer of England by M Chute

basic biographical facts about Geoffrey Chaucer and John

? Chaucer Coloring Book, published by

Wycliffe ? read, appreciate, evaluate, and

apply Biblical principles to excerpts from The Canterbury

Bellerophon Books ? Chaucer's Canterbury

Tales: The Prologue, edited by Sidney Lamb

Tales ? recognize and analyze

Chaucer's unique method of characterization ? recognize and discern between Biblical and Catholic elements in Everyman ? research a medieval castle in Great Britain, sketch its floor plan, and write an original short story with the castle as its setting

? British Literature, Tchr's Manual, BJU Press

? 131 Christians Everyone Should Know, edited by Christian History magazine

? Internet ? Library resources ? Student checklist ? Bibles

? avoid all major grammatical,

usage, and stylistic errors in

their writing

Unit 8 Elizabethan Literature (excluding Shakespeare)

1 ? weeks

LA2.1, 12.2, 12.3

Objectives

Methods

Resources

Assessment

The students will

? Lecture

? Introduction to

? Quiz on Foxe's

? apply the characteristics of ? Discussion

English Literature, A

Book of Martyrs.

the Elizabethan Period to its ? Group and

Beka, unit three

? Participation in

literature

individual reading ? "Thomas Cranmer:

class discussions

? memorize biographical

? Viewing video

The Reluctant

? Responses on

facts about Sir Thomas

clips and discussing

Martyr" published by

worksheet

More, Thomas Cranmer,

them

Christian History

? In-class wriitng

Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir

Institute ? Worksheet on

Spenserian stanza,

? Teacher-made test

Philip Sidney

taken from Prentice-

? read, comprehend, and

Hall's British

recognize the influence of

Literature

an excerpt from Utopia

? The English

? read, comprehend, and

Literature Book of

recognize the influence of

Writing Prompts by

an excerpt from The Book

Sarah Ennis

of Common Prayer

? Video clips from

? identify different versions

Shakespeare in Love

of the English Bible

about the competition

published during this time

between William

? read, comprehend, and

Shakespeare and

appreciate an excerpt from

Christopher Marlowe

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

? 131 Christians

? analyze and personally

Everyone Should

apply allegorical elements

Know, edited by

in an excerpt from The

Christian History

Faerie Queene

magazine

? evaluate the Biblical

veracity of the portrayal of

both hell and salvation in

Dr. Faustus

? identify the unique

characteristics of

Elizabethan poetry

? contrast the lives,

worldviews, and poetry of

Christopher Marlowe and

Sir Walter Raleigh

? avoid all major

grammatical, usage, and

stylistic errors in their

writing

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