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Gerrie Blackwelder
JESSE C CARSON HIGH
Zip Code: 28023
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Cougar English
 Honors 4

I look forward to working with you and for you as you add polish to your past academic successes!


School  is a great deal more fun if you are making great strides toward your own goals, and I hope to work with you as you set goals that orient you toward your future successes.


During the semester we will read, write, and learn about the history of Great Britain and the English language that derived from the Brits.

The Units of study include:
The Anglo-Saxons :
The Epic of Beowulf
The Seafarer

The Middle Ages :
Scottish Ballads
The Canterbury Tales
selection of The Day of Destiny (King Arthur)

The Renaissance :
The Metaphysicals and Cavaliers
Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Donne's poetry and prose
Ben Jonson
Francis Bacon
Hamlet

The Restoration and The Eighteenth Century :
A Modest Proposal
from The Rape of the Lock
To The Ladies

The Romantic Period :

Blake
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
Shelly
Keats

The Victorian Period :
Tennyson
Browning (Robert and Elizabeth)
Hopkins
Houseman
Kipling

The Modern Period :
Owen
Soyinka
Yeats
Lawrence  (Snake)
Others to be announced


Novels :
*1984
*Wuthering Heights






















 




A Framework for Rigor and Relevance

http://www.leadered.com/rigor.shtml


Welcome to Poetry Out Loud, www.ncarts.org/poetryoutloud 



Great Books Program
http://www.greatbooks.org/

The Big 6
http://www.thebig6.com

ERIC Research
http://www.eric.ed.gov


South Caldwell EOC/VOCATS Test Review




North Carolina English Teachers Association at: http://education.uncc.edu/nceta .

Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future is an online writing and
publishing project that invites young people to write about the issues and
concerns they would want the next president to address and, with the support
of their teachers, to publish their writing for a national audience."

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/nwpsites/
writing_our_future.csp

Gerry Solomon, School Library Media Consultant
Instructional Technology Section
K-12 Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Division
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
6364 MAIL SERVICE CENTER
Raleigh, NC  27699-6364
(v) 919/807-3286
(fax) 919/807-3290
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/div_it/


Grammar Practice 
http://www.grammar-monster.com


Flash cards for Vocabulary Word Skills Unit 1 Lessons 1-5

How to correctly write research papers: 

Senior Project News
"Students Seeking Mentors" and Mentors Seeking Students" 
To learn more, visit:  http://www.eenorthcarolina.org/gradproject.html 




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