HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH RECOVERY SYLLABUS



ENGLISH 12 SYLLABUS

Okanogan High School

Instructor: Dennis O'Connor

Office Hours:

Monday – Friday: 7:30-8:00 AM, 12:45-1:10, 3:00PM-4:00PM

Contact Info:

Work – 422-3770 ext. 3667, doconnor@oksd.wednet.edu

Home – 422-1844 (before 8:00PM), dpoc@

Course Description:

This course emphasizes the use of English skills in the working world, though most of this material is also good preparation for college. Research, thinking, listening, speaking and composition tasks are combined to prepare students for life after high school. This course is designed to teach students to think about and evaluate communication. Grammar, punctuation, and usage are learned within the context of specific job related tasks. In short, language skills learned though out the student’s high school career are polished in preparation for the work environment. In addition, students will use computers to help them establish professional quality work. Finally, students may fund, plan, and execute “The Senior Service Project” to prepare them to be active members of their community. Attendance will be incorporated into the grade.

Resources:

Communicating for Success, Hamlet, Fahrenheit 451, Inspiration, ActivInspire, Microsoft Office Word and PowerPoint.

Procedures and Grading:

Please see the “Course Policies” link to the left for classroom procedures and grading policies.

General Expectations:

1. All students will pass this course.

2. Students will be polite to their classmates and the teacher.

3. Students will be ready to work as soon as the bell rings, (pen and paper already out).

4. Students will be prepared to work until the bell rings at the end of class.

5. The teacher will provide worthwhile, practical, and fun (usually) learning projects.

6. The teacher will be help students understand and complete assignments.

7. The teacher will be available during office hours.

8. The teacher will be fair and attempt to have a good sense of humor. (

Semester 1 – Analytical Reading, Authentic Intellectual Work,

Academic Courage, Vocabulary Study, Shmoop for SAT, Personal Essay, Research and Writing for the Culminating Project, Reading Fiction as Inquiry, Poetry Out Loud, Effective Written Communication.

8/29-9/6: Review: Classroom Procedures, Grading, Vocabulary Study, Authentic

Intellectual Work, Academic Courage, Reading Non-Fiction and Poetry

Analytically.

9/10-9/28: Personal Essay: writing creatively and personally, hooks, transitions,

expansion, layering, and closing links. Students consider the aspects of their lives that have prepared them for the future. Useful for scholarships and college applications. We will also include a few days of counseling and application practice.

10/1-10/14: Research - Culminating Project; tying up loose ends, PowerPoint

presentations, internet search techniques, credible sources, reading non-fiction documents, appropriate content, structure and organization of an extended research paper, MLA works cited formatting.

10/17-11/21: Brave New World; close reading, literary analysis paper, Shmoop, using

quotes as evidence, personal connections, hooks, transitions, expansion,

layering, closing links.

11/26-12/18: Poetry Out Loud; close reading, connotation versus denotation,

memorization techniques, recitation, emotional intelligence.

1/2-2/15: Communication for Success; message, audience, purpose, writing clear

sentences, varying sentence length, organizing paragraphs, precise writing, document layout and design, giving instructions, summarizing techniques, note taking, fact versus opinion, recognizing bias.

1/22-2/23: Semester 1 Vocabulary Final. Portfolio Assessment, letter to parents.

Semester 2 – Vocabulary Study, Effective WrittenCommunication, 12

Angry Men, Hamlet, Senior Service Project,

1/24-2/15: Continue with Communicating for Success; as above.

2/18-3/15: 12 Angry Men; debate and research, reading non-fiction analytically,

evaluating information, internet search techniques, credible sources, Lincoln/Douglas structure, internet search techniques, credible sources, MLA works cited formatting.

3/15-4/12: Hamlet; literary analysis, synthesis of literary themes into current times,

personal connection, literary analysis essay.

3/29: Semester 2 Vocabulary Final.

4/1-4/5: Spring Break

4/8-4/12: Continue Hamlet as above.

4/15-5/24: Senior Service Project; service learning, problem solving, planning,

fundraising, work ethic, citizenship.

5/28-6/1: Graduation practice, Baccalaureate, Graduation.

Dennis O’Connor 2012/2013

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