English I Pre-AP
Tentative Syllabus*
2007-2008
Pre AP ENGLISH I
First Semester
Novel Lord of the Flies
Nonfiction “Life without Go Go Boots”
“I Have a Dream” “Letter from the
Poetry “The Tyger” “The Road Not Taken” “Fire and Ice” “Ecclesiastes 3”
“There Will
Come Soft Rains” “Passage”
“The Horses” “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving
Grace”
Epic Odyssey
First Nine Weeks-
Laying the Foundation
Week
One:
Intro
to course and expectations
Introduction
to denotation, connotation, diction, tone
Discuss
summer assignment-dialectical journals and character
Putting
It All Together-Laying the Foundation tone lesson
Annotate
diction; write tone sentences
Assign
diction tables
Close
reading-compare and contrast excerpts (Piggy and Simon)
Compose
original tone sentences
Intro
a-i-q-d-c and timed writing expectations and
notes
Write
TAKS short responses re: character
Intro
literary terms and elements—litotes, juxtaposition, metaphor, simile, symbol,
irony,
Intro
court trial expectations
Grammar-prepositional
phrases; find examples in
novel; write prep poetry
Mock trial-use character to defend position
Intro allusions
Intro
MLA documentation
Grammar-appositives
Intro
three levels of reading
Discuss
symbol and theme; develop theme statements and questions
“Life without Go Go
Boots” Taks responses and author’s purpose
Close
reading-“Utterly Perfect Murder”
Poetry
connections
Allusion
reports
Annotate
Fahrenheit Part One for character and tone
Discuss
figurative language
Literary
analysis journals over each section
Character
analysis journal-Montag
Analyze
allusions from novel
Inner/Outer
Circle discsussion
Discuss
historical context and compare/contrast contemporary events
Analyze
poetry related to novel (see above); identify tone shift; discuss theme;
analyze syntax
Close
Analyzing Rhetoric/The Epic
Intro Thesis statements, sentence variation
Timed
Writing- Character analysis or poetry analysis
Peer
editing and revision
Literary
terms-paradox, oxymoron, conceit
Intro
Rhetorical devices- ethos, pathos logos
Parallelism, antithesis, antimetabole,
anaphora
Discuss
logical fallacies in editorials, letters to editor, cartoons, ads
Analysis
of rhetorical devices in speeches
Composition-response
letter to editorials
Compose
parallel character sentences and paragraphs
Identify
all devices and patterns in letters, speeches
Into
archetypes and hero journey
Literary
terms-hubris, hamartia, foil, epic, epic simile,
epithet
Grammar-verbals
Read
and annotate Odyssey Book Nine
Discuss
hubris and link to Odysseus
Close
Assign
study groups for book presentations
Composition-Original
Poetry
Recite
“Invocation to the Muse”
Research
and report on assigned myths-include MLA documentation
Link
archetypes and hero journey to epic
TPCASTT-poetry
related to Odyssey
Discuss
AP Lit 2000 Question – compare Siren episode and “Siren Song”; compose thesis
(tentative)
Excerpts
Angela’s Ashes
Short
Story “Osage Orange
Tree” “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”
“American
History” “The Scarlet Ibis”
Drama Oedipus Rex
Night
by Elie Wiesel
“New
Directions”
various Annie Dillard
Poetry “Root Cellar” “Young”
“Hanging Fire”
“The Seven
Ages of Man”
ONGOING: Vocabulary, grammar, revision techniques,
daily journal responses to newspaper articles, poetry, life connections, etc.