Credit Recovery - English 4A
This is a class that will prepare students for the skills they will need to be successful in college and in life. When they have completed the class, students will have acquired the reading and critical thinking skills necessary for understanding challenging new material, analyzing that material to deduce meaning, and applying what they have learned to our world. They will have the composition skills needed to communicate their understanding effectively to a variety of audiences. Students will read and analyze classic works of literature because these works contain literary qualities that merit study and provoke thinking, not because of a requirement to know a particular work or author. They will also look at modern and contemporary works as they examine all genres: plays, short stories, poetry, essays, and novels. Students will learn to apply critical literary terms as tools for learning, understanding, and communication. Learning activities include close reading, paraphrasing, discussions, essays, short answer exams, research papers, reflective journals, web quests, oral presentations, and others. The unit structure below identifies the main headings of the units only. Most units will include a combination of genres and activities. The structure of the class is not based upon a sequence of chronology, national origin, or genres. It is instead based upon the sequence that best supports the learning needs of the student.
PREREQUISITES: English III
REQUIRED TEXT:
Semester A -- none
COURSE OUTLINE:
Unit: Utopia and Dystopia
Section A: Utopia: Introduction
Section B: Vocabulary: Introduction
Section C: Satire: Introduction
Section D: Animal Farm: Introduction
Section E: Sentence Variety
Section F: Writing: a 21st Century Animal Farm
Section G: Travel Brochure Project: Introduction
Section H: Dystopia: Introduction
Unit: Order and Chaos
Section A: Order and Chaos: Introduction
Section B: Literary Elements: Motif
Section C: Poetry: Sense in Nonsense
Section D: Shakespeare’s King Lear
Cumulative Project: The Poe Project
Unit: War and Peace
Section A: War and Peace: Introduction
Section B: Vocabulary
Section C: Imagery
Section D: Allusion
Section E: Persuasion
Section F: Persuasive Writing
Cumulative Project: The War Poets Project
Unit: Wealth and Poverty
Section A: Wealth and Poverty
Section B: Poetry Explication
Section C: Satire and a Modest Proposal
Section D: History and Cultural Context
Section E: Newspaper
Unit: Semester Conclusion
Section A: Study Skills
Section B: Show what you Know
For this course, students will participate in activities designed to help them attain proficiency and above in the grade-level standards across the strands of: