Communications

ENG2DP – Grade 10 AP Prep English – Course Overview

Summer Reading

The recommended summer reading assignment is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A journaling assignment will accompany the novel which will be provided by June.

Course Enrichment Modules

Study of Poetry with a focus on:

• Period – Elizabethan and Modern
• Stanza Structure – sestet, octave, Italian quatrain
• Rhythm – monosyllabic, monometer, dimeter, trimester, anapestic meter
• Form – epigram, elegy, ode, lament, folk ballad, literary ballad, Italian sonnet
• Style Devices – traditional symbol, implied metaphor, extended metaphor, understatement, allusion
• Sound Imagery – euphony, cacophony, assonance, consonance
• Diction and tone – concrete diction, abstract diction, neologism, paraphrase, syntax, visual imagery
• Model of Analysis – SOAPSTONE

Study of Essay Writing with a focus on:

• Form – expand on the five paragraph essay by introducing innovations and works cited
• Quotations – embedding quotations from primary source
• Thesis – teacher guided thesis formation
• Literary Criticism – Aristotle’s Tragic Hero, Joseph Campbell – Hero’s Journey
• Language – sentence type – interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, declarative; sentence structure – simple, compound, complex
• Punctuation – ellipsis

Study of Media with a focus on:

• Style – demonstrate an understanding and application of media texts, conventions, and techniques as students create a media text of their own in order to identify and deconstruct a modern day myth
• Terms and Concepts – logos, ethos, pathos, font, serif, rule of thirds, shot type, angle, foreground, background

Study of Oral Communication with a focus on:

• Argument – components of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery), using evidence, inference, warrants and claims; argumentation using series structure, convergent structure, and parallel structure
• Fallacies – begging the question, circular reasoning, composition fallacy, false dichotomy

ENG3UP – Grade 11 AP Prep English – Course Overview

Summer Reading

The recommended summer reading assignment is The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini. A journaling assignment will accompany the novel which will be provided by June.

Course Enrichment Modules

Study of Poetry with a focus on:

• Period – Victorian and Modern
• Stanza Structure – sestet, octave, English quatrain
• Rhythm – octosyllabic, dactylic meter, spondaic meter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter
• Form – narrative, realistic narrative, dramatic monologue, dialogue poetry, nonce sonnet
• Style Devices – private symbol, incidental symbol, conceit, Petrarchan conceit
• Sound Imagery – masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme, triple rhyme, slant rhyme
• Diction and tone – visual imagery, auditory imagery, tactile imagery
• Model of Analysis – TPCASTT

Study of Essay Writing with a focus on:

• Form – multi paragraph development of argument (non-five paragraph essay)
• Forms of argumentation – analogy, cause and effect, compare/contrast
• Quotations – Primary and Secondary sources, works cited with multiple sources
• Thesis – Student driven thesis Language: elevated diction, various sentence structures
• Literary Criticism – Jungian, Feminism, Miller’s Tragedy of the Common Man
• Punctuation – parenthesis, elongated dash

Study of Media with a focus on:

• Style – demonstrate an understanding and application of media texts, conventions, and techniques as students create a media text of their own in order to identify and deconstruct a modern day myth
• Terms and Concepts – Copy, galley, masthead, slug, spec, stringer, kicker, gutter, pica

Study of Oral Communication with a focus on:

• Argument – ordering weak-strong arguments, chronological argumentation, spatial argumentation, categorical argumentation, cause-effect argumentation, compare/contrast argumentation
• Fallacies – ad hominem, equivocation, loaded questions, non sequitur

ENG4UP – Grade 12 AP Prep English – Course Overview

Summer Reading

The recommended summer reading assignment is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. A journaling assignment will accompany the reading which will be provided by June.

Course Enrichment Modules

Study of Poetry with a focus on:

• Period – Romantic and Post-Modern Stanza Structure – Italian quatrain, Sapphic stanza
• Rhythm – heptameter, octameter, iambic trimester, trochaic tetrameter, anapestic dimeter, dactylic pentameter
• Form – epic, rondeau, sestina
• Style Devices – metonymy, synecdoche, synesthesia, apostrophe
• Sound Imagery – internal rhyme, anaphora, epistrophe, parallel structure, antithesis
• Diction and tone – etymology, ellipsis, olfactory imagery, gustatory imagery
• Model of Analysis – DIDLS >

Study of Essay Writing with a focus on:

• Form – sophisticated multi-paragraph essay structure
• Forms of argumentation – definition, example, categorizing, classifying
• Quotations – primary and secondary sources
• Thesis – student generated thesis
• Literary Criticism – Marxist, Pearson
• Language – academic diction, various complex sentence structures

Study of Media with a focus on:

• Style – demonstrate an understanding and application of media texts, conventions, and techniques as students create a media text of their own in order to identify and deconstruct a modern day myth
• Terms and Concepts – Shot types, tracking, panning, pull focus, key lighting, storyboard, shooting axis, back lighting, cinema verite

Study of Oral Communication with a focus on:

• Argument – resolutions of fact, resolutions of definition, resolutions of value, resolutions of policy; stasis in conjecture, stasis in definition, stasis in quality, stasis in place
• Fallacies – post hoc, red herring, slippery slope, straw man

ETS4UP – Grade 12 Advanced Placement English – Course Overview

Course Overview

This English course, focusing on British and American writers, and designed for students who love reading, covers several genres and spans artistic periods that span classical Greek Drama up to the contemporary period.

Three organizing principles help structure the activities of this course:

1. Thematic units cluster different genres of literature
2. A historical / artistic spectrum situates literature within the prevailing values of the period in which it was written
3. A literary criticism toolkit reveals a series of critical lenses or rhetorical techniques which students apply in their reading and analysis of literature

This course syllabus is predicated on the idea that the interpretation of literature is based on careful observation of how structure, style, theme, diction, voice, etc. operate within the details of a given text to create meaning for the reader.

Course Units

Unit 1: Major Movements in Art and Philosophy Bulletin Board

Unit 2: Developing a Literary Criticism Toolkit

Unit 3: Paradise Lost: Freud and Twentieth Century Alienation

Unit 4: Women Who Run With Wolves

Unit 5: Poets and Revolution

Unit 6: Tragedy and Comedy is All in the Family

Unit 7: Independent Study Unit