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English IV Syllabus Quarter 1 Summer Reading Diagnostic Writing Assessment Post-secondary Planning Core Literature: Beowulf and Grendel Anglo-Saxon times & the Heroic Ideal Writing: Journal, narrative, literary analysis (ongoing)
Quarter 2 The Middle Ages & Geoffrey Chaucer Core Literature: The Canterbury Tales (Prologue and selected tales) Examination of satire Research Paper* (minimum of 4 pages)
Vocabulary enrichment (ongoing) Non-fiction articles thematically paired with the literature (ongoing) Quarterly Assessment
Quarterly Assessment Quarter 3
Quarter 4
Core Literature: Hamlet
Core Text:A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier
Independent Reading of student selected work
Examine selected Historical Documents/speeches (see sample list below) Focus on content and rhetorical strategies
Quarterly Assessment – Research Simulation Task
Final Assessment: Cumulative Final Exam Supplemental Texts: Cry, the Beloved Country; Ordinary People; The Stranger; Persuasion; The Coalwood Way; selections from Adventures in English Literature and/or Literature and Language, Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, Stanton’s Seneca Falls Keynote Address, JFK’s Inaugural Address, Bella Azbug’s Remarks at the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, “Things you Learn from a Navy Seal” *Teachers may opt to have students complete research paper(s) in other marking periods *Non-fiction articles will be thematically paired with literature throughout the year. Grammar Skills will be taught and reinforced throughout the year. Targeted grammar skills include: comparatives & superlatives, wordiness, conciseness, redundancies, diction, idioms, colloquial vs. standard speech, passive vs. active voice, ellipse, hyphen, dash, parentheses. 11/27/2017