ENGLISH

NINTH GRADE
WORLD LITERATURE I
First Semester
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study core literature from ancient times through the early Roman period correlated with world history.

The ancient literature covered includes Job, Genesis, Esther, and The Epic of Gilgamish.
The Greek literature covered includes the Iliad, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and works by Plato and Aristotle.
The Roman literature covered includes the gospel of Mark, Aeneid, and Julius Caesar.

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.

Second semester
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study core literature from medieval times through the Reformation correlated with world history.

The medieval literature covered includes "Beowulf" as well as the writings of Thomas Aquinas, Chaucer, Dante, and

The Renaissance literature covered includes the Song of Roland, Romeo and Juliet and selections from Utopia, The Koran, Acts, and Revelation, as well as the writings of Shakespeare, Donne (Sonnets), and Machiavelli.
The Reformation literature covered includes the writings of Martin Luther and Erasmus

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.

TENTH GRADE
WORLD LITERATURE II
First Semester
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study core literature from the Enlightenment and Revolution through the turn of the twentieth century New Thought correlated with world history.

The Enlightenment and Revolution literature covered is Tartuffe, the writings of Rousseau, Newton, Descartes, Faust, William Blake, Wordsworth and George Elliot.
The turn of the New Thought literature covered is the writings of Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Holmes and Dichemus

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.

Second semester
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study the short story and poetry during the last century correlated with world history.

The study will include Pygmalion, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Chosen, My Antonia, a Russian writer study, Hemingway and Dylan Thomas.

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.

ELEVENTH GRADE
WORLD LITERATURE II
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study American literature from

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.

TWELFTH GRADE
BRITISH LITERATURE
The students will use essential English skills in communicating with God and others. Students will study literature from

Students will recognize the author's purpose and design for writing. Students will develop strong study skills, research skills, as well as fine tune the mechanics of writing many types of composition. Some of the student writing skills will be descriptive writing, information writing and persuasive writing in essay form. Some of the student research skills will be library skills, research skills and research paper. The mastery of these skills will be evident in the students' writings, oral communication and use of technology in presenting ideas.


DUAL CREDIT
English - taken in cooperation with San Antonio College.
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