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2011-2012 School Year
Summerlin Military Academy
English II/English II Honors Syllabus
Instructor: Major Harry E. Williams
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 519-7504
Course Description: Students will learn to read, analyze, and write in response to the literature of selected short stories, novels, poetry, and plays; build vocabulary; review and develop the necessary skills to write an essay from an assigned topic [either expository or persuasive] as prescribed by the present FCAT standards through progress monitoring and in class writing; develop an understanding of grammar, usage, and mechanics; practice daily journal writing; and complete a paper of moderate length following the correct research skills and MLR format.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
◊ Identify and analyze the elements of fictions, non-fiction, and poetry
◊ Determine the author’s purpose and universal meaning in literary works,
particularly, novels, plays, and epics.
◊ Write about literature with concern not only for content, but also for grammar,
style, and structure
◊ Identify, analyze, and use the elements of exposition and persuasion in written
essay
◊ Write effective bread and butter notes
Long-Term Assignments:
◊ Summer reading projects
◊ Vocabulary studied from within the content of literature
◊ Review of rules and exercises concerning capitalization and punctuation
◊ Review of parts of speech and exercises
◊ Full process research paper
◊ Preparation for the FCAT Writes
◊ Preparation for the FCAT Reading II
◊ Selected projects related to the literature being studied
◊ Oral presentations
Required Reading:
Antigone by Sophocles
Lord of the Flies by William Golding [honors]
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Williams Shakespeare
Elements of Literature [text]: selected poems, short stories, plays