Advanced English II: 2020-2021 Syllabus and Course Outline (Subject to Change)

 

Marking Period 1“Society and Race”

• Writing: Key Hole Model of Organization, Punctuation (commas and apostrophes), Parts of Speech, Sentence Structure, and Basics of MLA

• Literary Elements Review

• Essay Assignment: Literary Analysis on Summer Reading Assignment.

• “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison

• Nonfiction Unit: The Civil Rights Movement literature and documentaries

• “from Desert Exile” by Yoshiko Uchida

 

Marking Period 2 “Morality in Society”

• “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty

• Novel Unit: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• SAT expository essay

• SAT Grammar (Pronouns, Subject-Verb Agreement, Verb Tense, Verb Form, Parallelism, Modifiers, Idioms, and Usage)

• MLA Style—Citing various sources

• Essay Assignment: SAT Expository Essay

 

Marking Period 3 “Social Class”

• Novel Unit continued: To Kill a Mockingbird and supplementary texts and videos

• “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

• SAT Grammar: Paragraph organization and structure

• Punctuation: Colon and Semicolon

• Essay Assignment: Narrative Essay

 

Marking Period 4 “Gender Roles”

• Essay Assignment: The research simulation task--critical analysis of theme using secondary sources

• Writing: Paraphrasing Strategies, Avoiding Plagiarism, Evaluating Sources

• Drama Unit: Othello by William Shakespeare and supplementary texts and videos