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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 |