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English II
As we get into the 2009-2010 school year I would like to say I am pleased to have your son/daughter in my class this year.  English II is a World Literature based course with an emphasis on writing with the North Carolina Writing Assessment in March.  Below I have made up a tentative course outline for the semester which may change over the course of the year.

Unit One            ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST LITERATURE
                        Epic of Gilgamesh
                        Creation Myths
                        Biblical Parables
                        Psalms

Unit Two            GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE
                        Selections from the Iliad
                        Selection from the Aeneid
                        Oedipus Rex

Unit Three            INDIAN, CHINESE, AND JAPANESE LITERATURE
                           From the Ramayana
                           Analects of Confucius
                           Tanka’s and Haiku’s

Unit Four            MIDDLE AGES LITERATURE
                         Song of Roland
                         Selections from Dante’s Inferno
                         Nibelungenlied
                         Selection from Don Quixote
                         Selection from Candide

Unit Five            WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
                         Julius Caesar

Unit Six              HOLOCAUST
                         Night

Unit Seven          WRITING
                         Writing will be incorporated throughout for the writing assessment in March

Due to a limited number of textbooks, the books themselves will be left in class; however, if your student needs extra help, or needs to make up work during an absence, there is an online textbook that can be utilized.  The online textbook has all of the same literature as the one in class but you may also listen to selections read aloud which is helpful.  The directions to access the online textbook are as follows:

1. Go to http://my.hrw.com (no "www")
2. Login name will be:
username: english68
password: p7p4x
3. Click "go to the online textbook."
4. Find orange tab in top left that reads "Find It."
5. Click on unit number and desired piece of literature.

Wewill also do a wordskills lesson every week and be tested on thoseregularly.  The attempt of this program is to let students understandthat words are not a bunch of letters thrown together, there aredistinct parts to words and they are put together to have a specificmeaning. 

Again, I look forward to having your child in class and if there are any questions, please don't hesitate to send me an email.



Currently, we are reading Julius Caesar and we will be reading it in class.  We will take a quiz at the end of each act and will take a test at the end of the unit.  Students will also have a project to memorize lines and present them to the class.














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