Outline of 12th Grade English
Welcome to Honors English IV, your final English class before college. Though you have been preparing for college throughout your high school career, English IV will seek to ready you for future English classes at the university level. There will be writing, and a lot of it. While we develop our writing abilities, we will be exploring British literature throughout the ages, from the Early Anglo-Saxon's Old English to modern works.
The works we may read this year include, but are not limited to:
The works we may read this year include, but are not limited to:
- Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney and Grendel by John Gardner
- Excerpts from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- 1984 by George Orwell
Media Literacy Unit
Here are all materials needed for the Media Literacy Unit, where we will talk about different types of news sources and how they seek to persuade us.
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Beowulf and Grendel Unit
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College Admission Essays
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Canterbury Tales and Introduction to Literary Criticism
Full Canterbury Tales- Table of Contents on the Left Side of the Page
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Shakespeare and Richard III
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Britain during and after Shakespeare... in six weeks...with POETRY!
Otherwise titled: You can do this, guys. I believe in you :)
Final British Literature Project:
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Pastoral to Metaphysical Poetry:
It's all about the booty.
It's all about the booty.
Sonnet 130
by William Shakespeare Nymph's Reply to the Shepard by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sonnet 28 by Francesco Petrarch
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
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Passionate Shepard to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
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Neoclassical Literature and Political Satire:
Poor Babies are delicious and nutritious! (And other #FakeNews stories)
Poor Babies are delicious and nutritious! (And other #FakeNews stories)
A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift
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The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
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Romantic Period:
(Somehow, it's not about the booty?)
(Somehow, it's not about the booty?)
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud and The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
Ode to A Grecian Urn and Ode to A Nightingale by John Keats
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Victorian Lit:
Yeah, it's definitely not about the booty now.
Yeah, it's definitely not about the booty now.
The Lost Generation:
PTSD is not fun. Also, my friends are dead.
PTSD is not fun. Also, my friends are dead.
Late Modernism:
No booty. No friends. ONLY ANGST!
No booty. No friends. ONLY ANGST!
1984 by George Orwell
Every Tuesday, we will be completing a Paideia discussion on the assigned reading. You must complete annotations and discussion questions before the discussion.
NCFE Test Prep
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