English III Honors
REQUIRED TEXTS: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston Elements of Literature (Sixth Course) , Sadler-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop, Fowler’s Little Brown Handbook, (retain from 10th grade)
TRIMESTER ONE “The Tragic Hero” and “The Seven Deadly Sins”
(Eg: Macbeth, Grendel, Arthur)
Literature:
Macbeth; Grendel; Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; excerpts from Beowulf, King Arthur Legends,Canturbury Tales,
Writing Expectations:
One Library Report (choose one summer reading book)
Two Literary Analysis Papers
One Compare/Contrast Essay
Focus On: Thesis&Support (Solid Evidence/ Textual Details)
Grammar:
Sentence Structure, Phrases, Clauses, Parts of Speech
Focus On: Sentence Variety; Verbs and Pronouns;Transitions
TRIMESTER TWO “Love vs. Mortality;” “Nature vs. Materialism”
Poetry by Period: Renaissance through Victorian Ages
Literature:
Novels: Fowles’ Collector; Wells’ Time Machine and Island of Dr. Moreau;
Austen’s Emma; Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (choose two), Renaissance Poetry: Spencer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Sidney, Marlowe, Raleigh, 17thCentury Poetry: Donne, Jonson, Milton, Herrick, Herbert, Lovelace, Marvell
18thCentury/Pre Rom.: Dryden, Pope, Gray, Burns, Blake
Romantic Poetry: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats
Victorian Poetry: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rosetti, Hopkins, Hardy
Writing Expectations:
One Library Report (choose one poem
Two Literary Analysis Papers
One Research Paper (8-10 pgs)
Grammar:
Usage; Mechanics; Parallelism; Sentence Errors
Focus On: Run-ons; Comma Splices; Verbs and Pronouns
TRIMESTER THREE “Satire and Identity” in Nonfiction, Fiction & Drama & 20th Century Poetry
Literature:
Satire: 1984, Brave New World, Gulliver’s Travels, Pope’s “Rape of the Lock,”
Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and others
Identity: essays by Woolf; short stories by Joyce, Lawrence, Mansfield; poetry by Auden,Yeats, Lawrence,
Thomas, Eliot
Writing Expectations:
One Library Report (choose one author & work)
Two Personal Essays
One Creative Project (play, short story, essay)
Grammar:
SAT II Writing Review
GRADING: Quizzes=20%, Tests=30%, Writing=30%, Exam=20%