English III Syllabus Honors
Quarter 1
Summer Reading Prerequisite
Diagnostic Assessment
The Crucible
Analysis of Historical Documents – Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia
Convention” plus either Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”,
Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”, “The Hypocrisy of American
Slavery”, and/or King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Quarter 2
The Scarlet Letter
Excerpts from Walden
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain WebQuest
Variety of Writing Assignments
Selected Short Stories / Poems / Essays /Articles
Quarterly: Huck Finn Essay assessment
Various Writing Assignments – Emphasis on Research, citations and MLA
format
Quarterly: Expository Essay-The Crucible
Quarter 3
Macbeth
Shakespeare WebQuest
Dickens novel: Tale of Two Cities or Great Expectations
Variety of Writing Assignments
Quarterly Assessment
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Quarter 4
The Great Gatsby
Outliers
Variety of Writing Assignments
Supplemental Literature/Readings/Selected Poems
Resume Unit / College & Trade Exploration
Critical Analysis Paper
Final Assessment: Analysis of Literature Read this Year
Supplemental Literature:A Streetcar Named Desire, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The
Rules of Survival, “Speech in the Virginia Convention”, Touching Spirit Bear, Selections from Welcome to the Monkey House , A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Selections from: Frost, Irving, Dickinson, Emerson, Longfellow, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, London,
Patrick Henry, Melville), additional historical documents
One day a week will be devoted to one or more of the following:
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Reinforcement of skills needed for success on standardized tests like the HSPA and SAT
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Vocabulary enrichment and reinforcement
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SAT practice
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Grammar Skills - Focus skills include: subject/verb agreement, parallel construction, illogical comparisons, misplaced & dangling modifiers,
independent & dependent clauses, sentence types, quotes within quotes
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