English 11
English 11 Course Outline
The year will begin with and be immersed with writing…
After the review of writing basics is done, and we get into paragraph writing, we will switch between writing assignments and literature. The literature we will cover in 11th grade will include the following units:
*Realism 1860-1890
*Naturalism *1890-1914
*Modernism 1914-1945
*New Frontiers 1945-Now
(This Course Outline is not set in stone and is subject to change!)
Other Requirements…
**You will have a vocabulary test every other Friday—all year.
The year will begin with and be immersed with writing…
- Review of Basics—parts of speech, sent., frag, run-on
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- the Writing Process
- the Answer Plan
- the Paragraph
- the Persuasive Essay
- MyAccess Writing Program will be used again this year
After the review of writing basics is done, and we get into paragraph writing, we will switch between writing assignments and literature. The literature we will cover in 11th grade will include the following units:
- Comedy, Humor, and Satire, which includes material from many genres—short stories, articles, essays, poems, and media pieces
- Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, with a variety of supplementary readings and media pieces to compliment the issues in the novel
- The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller
- American Literature will be presented from the textbook chronologically as a way to look at the evolution of American Literature…the emphasis will be on how the events of a time and place are major influences on artists: writers, singers, painters, etc.
*Realism 1860-1890
*Naturalism *1890-1914
*Modernism 1914-1945
*New Frontiers 1945-Now
- Potential literature to get to…a novel by John Knowles, A Separate Peace, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
(This Course Outline is not set in stone and is subject to change!)
Other Requirements…
**You will have a vocabulary test every other Friday—all year.