English I Syllabus



English I Syllabus

Course Description

English I is the study of fictional and nonfictional visual media. This includes an analysis of key ideas and details, craft and structure, integration of knowledge and ideas found in fiction and nonfiction text types; the use vocabulary strategies to learn and understand the new words introduced through the Word of the Day program; write effective paragraphs with a focus on topic development in terms of purpose and focus, organization, unity and coherence, word choice in terms of style, tone, and clarity, sentence structure and formation, conventions of usage, conventions of punctuation; and present information and evaluate presentations using the Common Core State Standards Anchor Standards

First Semester

• Unit One: The Study of “from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

o author study, autobiography, point of view

• Unit Two: Understanding Informational Text Features

o organizational text structures, organizational text features, print text features, graphic text features

• Unit Three: Edgar Allan Poe

o form, stanza, rhyme, meter, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, metaphor, lines, sound, rhythm, alliteration, speaker, simile, figurative language, ballad, allusion

• Unit Four: Crisis and Conflict

o evaluating sources, understanding context clues, write a personal narrative

• Unit Five: Suspense and Surprise

o read news sources, analyze word parts – roots, persuasive essay

Text to be used: The Language of Literature, 100 Words High School Freshman Should Know, articles from various news media

Second Semester

• Unit Six: Speaking Out

o author’s perspective, analyzing word parts – affixes, persuasive speech

• Unit Seven: Mississippi Trial, 1955

o compare and contrast a work of fiction based on a historical event

• Unit Eight: “from The Odyssey”

o the study of an epic

• Unit Nine: Romeo and Juliet

o Shakespearean Drama, taking notes, homonyms and words with multiple meanings, staging a scene

Text to be used: The Language of Literature, 100 Words High School Freshman Should Know, articles from various news media, Mississippi Trial, 1955

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