Department: ENGLISH

Teacher(s): NOVO

Texts:

Vocabulary Workshop/Level F.

Macbeth. Penguin Signet Classic.

6^th Edition MLA Handbook for Writers Research Pap.

Jane Eyre. Bronte.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Borroff. Norton.

Internet Seventeenth century and Romantic Poetry.

**Summer Reading: Pride and Prejudice. Austen.

0115 Course Description:

English II encourages students to increase their vocabulary through writing as well as from the study of major British writers. Students read and study poetry, drama, and novel selections from the various major periods of British literature. They learn to analyze literature using the literary terms mastered in English I and build their knowledge of these concepts in formal written literary analyses. The students also gain experience in other modes of rhetoric including the persuasive essay, comparison/contrast, and process analysis; the students learn research skills and the MLA documentation format through work on a research paper. Through the use of the text as well as oral and written application, English II students further sharpen their grammatical skills. In addition, students will continue to develop and refine their technological skills through the use of the computer for the English classroom.

First Semester August 15 – December 15

August 18-September 5 Pride and Prejudice

(Enlightenment)[Literary analysis (A-B Thesis MLA style)]

September 6 -13 Grammar: Voice, Mood and Pronoun Usage(Vocabulary 1-3)

September 8 –October 3 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(Middle Ages)(Vocabulary 4)

[Literary analysis + personal narrative]

October 6- November 8 Macbeth

[Renaissance](Includes formal test)[Vocabulary 5]

November 9 - 16 Grammar:Phrases/Clauses and verbals VW 6-7

November 18- December 2 Seventeenth Century Poetry

December 5 - 9 Grammar review (Voice, Mood and

Pronoun Usage; Pronoun Usage;

Phrases/Clauses and verbals)

VW 8

SECOND SEMESTER JANUARY 3– MAY 22

January 3 – February 3 (4wks) Research Paper/MLA

February 6 – 17 Grammar:Punctuation

+Vocabulary 8-9

February 21 – March 3 Romantic Poetry

March 6 - 24 Grammar:

Grammar workshop

Vocabulary 10-12

March 27 – May 3 Jane Eyre

(Includes formal test)

May 4 – 17 Dubliners [Modernism]

Vocabulary 13-14