High School Honors English 12 British Literature Online
Description:
Dedicated to creating effective and adaptable readers and writers, Honors English 12 British Literature serves as a culmination of the English curriculum at Excel High School. It provides rigorous training in the foundations of English Language Arts skills and strategies, while using core English language foundations, to expand on and apply traditional concepts to modern, 21st-century demands. Offering practical lessons in techniques such as visualizing, making inferences and predictions and recognizing, organizational patterns in online texts, this course focuses on literature selections from Great Britain as its foundation.
Textbooks: English 12 British Literature – © Excel Education Systems, Inc. - 2019
Course objectives:
Throughout the course, you will meet the following goals:
- Read increasingly complex British literature with fluency and comprehension.
- Develop advanced strategies for creating and analyzing oral and written communication.
- Apply advanced literary analysis and grammatical theories.
- Develop a critical literary approach to literature and communication.
- Practice and apply visual, listening, reading, and writing fluency skills.
Contents:
Semester A
Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature
Unit 2: British Literature During the Renaissance
Unit 3: British Restoration/18th Century Literature
Semester B
Unit 4: Romanticism
Unit 5: Realism and Naturalism
Unit 6: Contemporary British Literature
Grade Weighting
Unit Quizzes.........................40%
Writing Assignments.........30%
Mid-Term/Final Exams......30%
Total.......................................100%
