ENGLISH II

Course goals/objectives: unit breakdown

Unit One: Exploring the inner self

• Each student will read samples of personal expressive writing: narratives,memoirs, and autobiographical in order to become familiar with the qualitiesof personal expressive writing. (KLG 5.1, 5.3, 1.2)
• Each student will explore "The Personal Side of Life" by writing 2 forms of personal expressive writing, a personal narrative, and a memoir. (KLG 1.11)
• Each student shall recognize major literary elements found in short stories andwill read/analyze several short stories and other fictional writing. eg: plot, climax, conflict, resolution, characterization. (KLG 1.11, 1.2, 2.24)
• Each student shall write short stories that include the appropriate literary elements. (KLG 1.11, 6.3, 5.2)
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and usage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)

Unit Two: Exploring persuasive writing

• Each student will identify propaganda techniques used in famous speeches throughout history, and will use those techniques to create a speech suitable for public performance. (KLG 1.11, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 1.12)
• Each student will learn the persuasion techniques used in advertising and will design advertising for a product invented by the student. (KLG 1.11, 6.3, 5.2)
• Each student will learn the rules for editorial writing and will devise a letter to the editor for local paper or television station. (KLG 1.11, 1.2, 6.2, 6.3)
• Each student will read the play "Twelve Angry Men" and will analyze the major literary elements found in the drama. (KLG 1.2, 5.3)
• Each student will research the fifth and sixth amendments to the constitution and prepare a position paper on whether or not the main character in "Twelve Angry Men" received a fair trial. (KLG 1.11, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4)
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and useage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)

Unit Three: Exploring the dramatic play

• Each student will read and evaluate the drama Julius Caesar and complete open response questions and essay questions when finished. (KLG 1.11, 6.2, 6.3)
• Each student will create a fictitious newspaper that headlines the major events in Acts 1 & 2 of Julius Caesar. (KLG 1.11, 5.2)
• Each student will create a venn diagram to compare/contrast 2 characters from Julius Caesar, which will serve as the prewriting for a compare/contrast essay which will be completed by the student. (KLG 1.11, 6.2, 6.3)
• Each student will find selections of art from the appropriate time period for Julius Caesar (1564-1610) and will write feature articles describing what is depicted in each work of art. (KLG 1.1, 2.22, 2.23)
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and usage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)

Unit Four: Exploring early America

• Each student will read Tom Sawyer and analyze the work with relevant open-response questions. (KLG 1.11, 6.3)
• Each student will research the time period Tom Sawyer was written in and write a chapter that could be inserted as an adventure for Tom Sawyer that would fit with other events in the story. (KLG 1.11, 6.2, 6.3)
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and useage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)

Unit Five: Exploring expressive writing

• Each student will read and analyze selected poems from the Renaissance, Romantic, and Contemporary periods and will discuss the literary elements of each. (KLG 1.1, 1.2, 5.1)
• Each student will research one author from each of the three periods and write a feature article on that author, highlighting other poems written. (KLG 1.1, 1.11, 1.2, 5.3)
• Each student will write a compare/contrast essay describing the differences among the three types of poetry from each of the three time periods. (KLG 1.1, 1.11, 5.3, 6.2)
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and usage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)

Unit Six: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde

• Each student will read Stevenson's Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and will analyze it with the help of open-response questions. (KLG 1.2, 5.3, 6.2)
• Each student will produce writing assignments reflective of their reading of the novel. The writing could be transactive or fictional in nature.
• Each student shall work on language, mechanics, and usage lessons to review composition and grammar skills and to work on problem areas in grammar. (KLG 1.11)