English 2 H

Course Syllabus 2022-2023

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Welcome! English 2 H is a reading and writing intensive course that is designed to help you become a more critical reader and authentic writer. Students will be exposed to the components of both the TDA Essay and multiple text forms. Careful reading and critical analysis of such works of fiction, drama, and informational will provide rich opportunities for you to cultivate and develop an appreciation of literature, reading and writing..

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CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS

• Self-motivated
• Work independently and cooperatively
• Cell Phones should not be visible in class unless otherwise noted by instructor
• Be Present EVERY day-either virtually or in person.
• Adherence to GHS/GCSD rules and policies

Students will complete sample multiple choice tests and TDA essays for EOC Preparation Weekly.

In this course you will…

• Zoom in on an author’s craft by identifying and analyzing literary and rhetorical devices.
• Analyze individual parts of a text and understand how they fit into the whole
• Write with more intention by choosing a variety of strategies to best suit your purpose
• Gain familiarity with types of questions on the EOC assessments through repeated practice
• Use technology to publish writing
• Read thought provoking materials and discuss your ideas in class regularly.

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EOC ASSESSMENT

• This year’s English 2 EOC will take place in Nov./Dec.

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• Students will have the opportunity to take part in practice exams throughout the semester.

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What you will need…

• Chromebook
• Highlighters, pens, pencils or annotation tools
• Three ring binder with dividers (3)
• Black and White Journal/Composition Book

 Grading Scale

Major-60%: tests, projects, major writing assignments

Minor-40%: quizzes, homework, participation minor writing assignments

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Selected short stories and poetry, informational texts

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Novels:

Lord of the Flies

Night

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Drama:

12 Angry Men

Macbeth

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(See parent

letter for

descriptions)

Novel Policy

Students will be issued digital or hard copies of the novels studied in class. However, it is HIGHLY suggested that students purchase their own copies for annotation purposes. Discounted copies can be found at used book stores such as Mr. K’s, amazon.com, and thriftbooks.com.

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Assignments—Lots of reading, lots of writing! It’s the only way to get better at both! You can expect to read, write, and discuss on a daily basis. You will earn grades for:

• Writing Assignments: daily writer’s notebook entries, essays, in class TDA timed essays
• Reading Assignments: Response journals, reading quizzes, tests, vocabulary quizzes
• Speaking: Socratic seminars, presentations, interactive orals

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1^st 9 Weeks: 2^nd 9 Weeks:

Short Stories Short Stories

Long Way Down TDA Writing

Lord of the Flies Night

12 Angry Men Macbeth

Argumentative Writing EOC Exam Review

TDA Writing

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Book Synopsis List

All excerpts will be provided by the teacher in Google Classroom or hard copy

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12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose:

This award-winning courtroom drama opens at the conclusion of the closing arguments in a murder trial. All of the action takes place in the jury room as the 12 members of the jury deliberate. A guilty verdict will mean death for the accused, an inner-city teen. As the dozen men try to reach a unanimous decision, one juror casts considerable doubt on elements of the case. Personal issues soon rise to the surface, and conflict threatens to derail the delicate process that will decide one boy's fate.

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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds:

Long Way Down (2017) by Jason Reynolds is a young adult novel in free verse about Will Holloman, a young black boy struggling to make a decision after his brother Shawn is shot dead in the street. Will plans to seek revenge, but before he can leave the elevator of his building, he is greeted by a series of ghosts who confuse and complicate his perspective on Shawn’s death and the idea of revenge killing.

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare:

One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first skeptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of his wife, Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiraling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder. This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.

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Night by Elie Wiesel

Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.

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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

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