Honors English II: 2021-2022 Syllabus and Course Outline (Subject to Change)
Marking Period 1“Society and Race”
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Writing: Key Hole Model of Organization, Punctuation (commas and apostrophes), Parts of Speech, Sentence Structure, and Basics of MLA
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Literary Elements Review
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Essay Assignment: Literary Analysis on To Kill a Mockingbird or Choice Novel.
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“Recitatif” by Toni Morrison
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Nonfiction Unit: The Civil Rights Movement literature and documentaries
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“from Desert Exile” by Yoshiko Uchida
Marking Period 2 “Morality in Society”
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“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty
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Novel Unit: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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SAT expository essay
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SAT Grammar (Pronouns, Subject-Verb Agreement, Verb Tense, Verb Form, Parallelism, Modifiers, Idioms, and Usage)
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MLA Style—Citing various sources
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Essay Assignment: SAT Expository Essay
Marking Period 3 “Social Class”
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Novel Unit continued: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and supplementary texts and videos
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“Hop-Frog,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
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SAT Grammar: Paragraph organization and structure
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Punctuation: Colon and Semicolon
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Essay Assignment: Narrative Essay
Marking Period 4 “Gender Roles”
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Essay Assignment: The research simulation task--critical analysis of theme using secondary sources
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Writing: Paraphrasing Strategies, Avoiding Plagiarism, Evaluating Sources
Drama Unit: Othello by William Shakespeare and supplementary texts and videos