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9th Grade English
Syllabus
The Plot Thickens: Narrative Structure
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"A Sound of Thunder"
"The Most Dangerous Game"
"Daughter of Invention"
"Gift of the Magi"
Poetry
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Edgar Allan Poe
People Watching: Characterization and Point of View
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"Pancakes"
"The Necklace"
"Hamadi"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Poetry
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Pat Mora
Simon J. Ortiz
A Sense of Place: Setting, Mood, and Imagery
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"A Christmas Memory"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
Poetry
Getting the Message: Theme and Symbol
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"The Sniper"
"Golden Kite, Silver Wind"
"Old Man at the Bridge"
Poetry
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William Wordsworth
Ideas Made Visible: Author's Purpose
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"Liberty"
"Thank you, M'am"
Poetry
Taking Sides: Argument and Persuasion
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Poetry
Special Effects: The Language of Poetry
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Poetic Concepts
Robert Frost
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
John Donne
Petrarch
A Way with Words: Author's Style and Voice
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Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Putting It in Context: History, Culture, and the Author
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"American History"
Shakespearean Drama: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
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Renaissance Background
Character List
Study Guide/Vocabulary
Movie Clips
Epic Poetry: The Odyssey
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Context
Plot Overview
Character List
Study Guide
Movie Clips
Investigation and Discovery: The Power of Research
The Pearl
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
Speeches
Grammar/Writing
10th Grade English
Syllabus
The World of a Story: Plot, Setting, and Mood
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"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant"
"Harrison Bergeron"
"Everyday Use"
"Searching for Summer"
"To Build a Fire"
"Embroidery"
"The Pedestrian"
"Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"Evacuation Order No. 19"
Poetry
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Julia Alvarez
Joy Harjo
Word Portraits: Character Development
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"The Leap"
"Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?"
"The Possibility of Evil"
Poetry
A Writer's Choice: Narrative Devices
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"The Seventh Man"
"House Taken Over"
"Powder"
Poetry
Message and Meaning: Theme
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"What Happened During the Ice Storm"
"The Storyteller"
"The First Seven Years"
Poetry
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Why Write? Author's Purpose
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Poetry
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Rita Dove
Making a Case: Argument and Persuasion
Sound and Sense: The Language of Poetry
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Poetic Concepts
Poetry
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Emily Dickinson
Virgil Suarez
Geraldine Connolly
Jennifer Chang
E. E. Cummings
N. Scott Momaday
Lucille Clifton
John Masefield
William Shakespeare
Langston Hughes
John Donne
Sonnets
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Shakespearean/English
Petrarchan/Italian
Signatures: Author's Style and Voice
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Robert Frost
Product of the Times: History, Culture, and the Author
Upholding Honor: Greek Tragedy and Medieval Romance
Shakespearean Drama: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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Renaissance Background
Character List
Study Guide/Vocab/Homework
Movie Clips
Investigation and Discovery: The Power of Research
Catcher in the Rye
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Context
Character List
Anaylsis
Study Guide
Movie Clips
Fahrenheit 451
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
Movie Clips
Speeches
Grammar/Writing
11th Grade English
Syllabus
Native American Myths
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Huron
Sioux
Nez Perce
Blackfeet
Poetry
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Poetic Concepts
Anne Bradstreet
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
T. S. Eliot
E. E. Cummings
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Essays
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Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
William Bradford
Short Stories
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"The Devil and Tom Walker"
"The Minister's Black Veil"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"A Mystery of Heroism"
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
"To Build a Fire"
"Soldier's Home"
"Winter Dreams"
"A Rose for Emily"
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"Speaking of Courage"
"Teenage Wasteland"
Death of a Salesman
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
Movie Clips
The Narrative of Frederick Douglas
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
The Scarlet Letter
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Context
Character List
Study Guide/ Project
Movie Clips
The Great Gatsby
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
Group Project
Movie Clips
The Crucible
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
Movie Clips
Speeches
Grammar/Writing
12th Grade English
Syllabus
Poetry
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Poetic Concepts
Anglo-Saxons and Middle Ages: 449-1485
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Boewulf
The Canterbury Tales
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Context
Character List
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Character Map
Study Guides
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The Prologue
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Movie Clips
Renaissance 1485-1660
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Renaissance Background
Poets
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Sir John Suckling
Richard Lovelace
King James Bible
William Shakespeare
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Biography
Sonnets
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Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 30
Sonnet 71
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 130
Macbeth
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Context
Character List
Study Guide
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Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Movie Clips
Hamlet
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Context
Character List
Study Guides
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Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
Movie Clips
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1800
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Daniel Defoe
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A Journal of the Plague Year
Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope
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Heroic Couplets
An Essay on Man & The Rape of the Lock
The Romantic Period 1798-1832
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Poets
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Robert Burns
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
The Victorian Period 1832-1901
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Poets
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Alred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Hardy
A. E. Housman
Animal Farm
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Context
Character List
Background Notes
Study Guide
Movie Clips
The Modern World 1900 to the Present
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Poets
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Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Siegfried Sassoon
Elie Wiesel
T.S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Dylan Thomas
Stevie Smith
Pablo Neruda
Philip Larkin
Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney
Margaret Atwood
Eavan Boland
Wole Soyinka
Essays/Short Stories/Speeches
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Winston Churchill
Elizabeth Bowen
Graham Greene
George Orwell
Joseph Chamberlain
Jawaharlal Nehru
Virginia Woolf
Katherine Mansfield
D.H. Lawrence
James Joyce
Jorge Luis Borges
Samuel Beckett
Harold Pinter
Doris Lessing
Nadine Gordimer
Chinua Achebe
Speeches
Grammar/Writing
12th Grade AP English
Summer Reading/Writing Requirements
Background Notes
Background Bullet Points and Questions