Tentative Syllabus Pre AP English I       Tentative Syllabus English I

First Nine Weeks First Nine Weeks

Fahrenheit 451 Animal Farm

Animal Farm Short Stories

Allusions TAKS Benchmark

TAKS Benchmark     TAKS writing

Rhetoric                                                                         Literary terms (ongoing)

Literary terms (ongoing)                                                          Close reading skills (ongoing)

Close reading skills (ongoing)                                                  Critical thinking

SAT vocabulary words (ongoing)                                            Writing Process (ongoing)

Writing Process (ongoing)                                                        Grammar, Usage and Mechanics

Grammar in context of literature (ongoing)                                Vocabulary development (context clues)