East Penn School District
Secondary Curriculum
A Planned Course Statement
for
12th Grade English/Reading
Course #
132
Department:
Grade(s)
12
English
Length of Period (mins.)
Periods per Cycle:
40
Total Clock Hours:
6
120
Length of Course (yrs.)
Type of Offering:
required
Credit:
1.0
Adopted:
6/2006
Developed by:
Elizabeth Moessner
Jan Landgraf
elective
1.0
Description of Course
Course Title:
12th Grade English/Reading - # 132
Description:
This course is designed to advance continued success in reading, writing, and oral
communication. The course focuses on continued improvement of students’ skills and
experience with British and American Literature. Genres include the following: short
story, poetry, epic, novel, drama, and nonfiction. Students will read novels and report
on various aspects of a specific novel’s content and structure. Students will improve
and polish writing skills utilizing proper grammar, usage, and mechanics. Students will
improve oral communication skills.
Goals:
To study and analyze literature and improve thinking, writing, and research skills.
Requirements:
Essays, tests, projects, homework, assignments
Text:
Literature: The British Experience, Prentice Hall, 2006.
Audio-visual aids
Teacher-made materials
Computer resources
Novels
Plays
Key to Levels of Achievement (Listed with each learning objective)
Awareness (A):
Students are introduced to concepts, forms, and patterns.
Learning (L):
Students are involved in a sequence of steps and practice
activities which involved further development and allow
evaluation of process.
Understanding (U):
Students demonstrate ability to apply acquired concepts and
skills to individual assignments and projects on an independent
level.
Reinforcement (R):
Students maintain and broaden understanding of concepts and
skills to accomplish tasks at a greater level of sophistication.
Course Objectives –
Unit
Short Stories
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
1
Students will comprehend various
forms of literature.
U
2
Students will identify the
elements of the short story:
- character
- setting
- conflict
- rising action
- climax
- falling action
- resolution.
Students will understand and
differentiate between internal and
external conflict.
R
Students will understand an
identify points of view:
first person
second person
third person
omniscient
limited
R
3
4
Content
Evaluation
Page 1
Standard
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.1.11 B
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.1.11 D
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
5
Students will understand,
identify, and explain irony.
R
6
Students will understand,
identify, and label tone.
R
7
Students will understand and
analyze various moods.
R
8
Students will understand the
unique characteristics of a
folktale:
oral tradition
theme
characterization
animal
human
superhuman
Content
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
Evaluation
Page 2
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 B
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 A
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
9
Poetry
10
11
Students will understand the
characteristics of a supernatural
tale:
beyond bounds of reality
supernatural beings, powers,
and events
appearance versus reality
use of curiosity, fear, and
excitement
Students will be introduced:
Anglo-Saxon period
oral tradition
characterization
human
superhuman
personification
animal
Students will understand the epic
form.
Level
Content
Evaluation
Page 3
Standard
“The Demon Lover”
“No Witchcraft for Sale”
“The First Year of My Life”
“The Rocking Horse Winner”
“A Shocking Accident”
“The Rain Horse”
“B. Wordsworth”
“The Train from Rhodesia”
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
L
Video The 13th Warrior
Epic Beowulf
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.4.11 A
L
Video The 13th Warrior
Epic Beowulf
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.4.11 A
12
Students will identify epic
themes.
L
Video The 13th Warrior
Epic Beowulf
13
Students will analyze the epic
hero and his characteristics.
L
Video The 13th Warrior
Epic Beowulf
1.4.11 A
1.2.11 E
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
14
Students will learn about the
medieval period and literature of
the time.
L
15
Students will understand a frame
story.
L
16
Students will understand the
following poetic terms:
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
oxymoron
free verse
rhyme scheme
symbolism
repetition
alliteration.
R
Content
from The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
from “Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
Video Excalibur
from The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
from “Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight”
Video Excalibur
“The Soldier”
“The Wirers”
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”
“Follower”
“Outside History”
“Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night”
“Not Waving but Drowning”
“The Wife’s Lament”
“Sonnet 130”
“Sonnet 89”
“Sonnet 43”
“Death be Not Proud”
“Song to Celia”
“When I Was One and Twenty”
Evaluation
Page 4
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.4.11 A
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.2.11 E
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 C
Course Objectives –
Unit
Drama
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
“The Soldier”
“The Wirers”
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”
“Follower”
“Outside History”
“Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night”
“Not Waving but Drowning”
“The Wife’s Lament”
“Sonnet 130”
“Sonnet 89”
“Sonnet 43”
“Death be Not Proud”
“Song to Celia”
“When I Was One and Twenty”
“Sonnet 130”
“Sonnet 89”
“Sonnet 43”
17
Students will understand a
dramatic monologue.
L
18
Students will understand the
sonnet structure.
L
19
Students will understand the basic
elements of drama:
character
setting
plot
conflict
theme
climax
falling actin
resolution
rising action
Students will recognize an aside
and its purpose.
R
Macbeth
R
Macbeth
20
Evaluation
Page 5
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 C
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Student created sonnets
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 C
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
21
Students will understand a motif.
L
Macbeth
22
Students will understand the
structure of a Shakespearean play.
R
Macbeth
23
Students will understand the
elements of a Shakespearean
tragedy.
R
Macbeth
24
Students will understand the
tragic hero and the tragic flaw.
R
Macbeth
25
Students will understand the use
of the soliloquy.
R
Macbeth
26
Students will identify blank verse.
L
Macbeth
Evaluation
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Page 6
Standard
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
1.3.11 D
Course Objectives –
Unit
Novel
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Content
27
Students will understand comic
relief.
U
Macbeth
28
Students will understand the basic
elements of the novel:
character
setting
plot
theme
conflict
resolution.
Students will analyze, understand,
and discuss the following themes:
- individual responsibility
- the importance of education
- the dilemma of conscience
- the individual and democracy
R
A Farewell to Arms
Brave New World
U
A Farewell to Arms
Brave New World
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Birds on the Western Front”
“Wartime Speech: Sir Winston
Churchill”
Defending Nonviolent
Resistance”
“The Lady in the Looking Glass:
A Reflection”
from “A Dictionary of the English
Language”
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Birds on the Western Front”
“Wartime Speech: Sir Winston
Churchill”
Defending Nonviolent
Resistance”
“The Lady in the Looking Glass:
A Reflection”
from “A Dictionary of the
English Language”
29
Nonfiction
Level
30
Students will understand journal
style.
L
31
Students will differentiate
between personal narrative and
autobiography.
U
Evaluation
Page 7
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.3.11 D
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.4.11 A
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.4.11 A
1.4.11 A
1.4.11 B
Course Objectives –
Unit
Grammar
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Birds on the Western Front”
“Wartime Speech: Sir Winston
Churchill”
Defending Nonviolent
Resistance”
“The Lady in the Looking Glass:
A Reflection”
from “A Dictionary of the English
Language”
“Shooting an Elephant”
“Birds on the Western Front”
“Wartime Speech: Sir Winston
Churchill”
Defending Nonviolent
Resistance”
“The Lady in the Looking Glass:
A Reflection”
from “A Dictionary of the English
Language”
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
32
Students will analyze the
evolution of words.
R
33
Students will understand the
structure of an essay.
U
34
Students will differentiate among
sentences, fragments, and runons.
R
35
Students will improve sentence
structure by combining sentences,
different types of phrases and
clauses.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
36
Students will differentiate among
the following verb tenses:
- present
- past
- future
- present perfect
- past perfect
- future perfect.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
Evaluation
Page 8
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.1.11 C
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.5.11
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.7.11 C
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.7.11 C
1.7.11 C
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
37
Students will understand the use
of commas, semicolons, and
hyphens.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
38
Students will understand the use
of quotation marks.
U
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
39
Students will use adjectives and
adverbs correctly.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
40
Students will use coordinating
and subordinating conjunctions
correctly.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
41
Students will coordinate subject
and verb agreement.
R
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
42
Students will understand the use
of troublesome verbs.
U
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
Evaluation
Page 9
Standard
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.5.11 E
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
1.5.11 E
1.5.11 E
1.5.11 E
1.5.11 E
1.5.11 E
Course Objectives –
Unit
Vocabulary
Speaking
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
43
Students will understand and use
appropriate transitions.
L
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
44
Students will identify misplaced
and dangling modifiers.
L
Worksheets
Teacher-made exercises
Student writing
45
Students will acquire new
vocabulary in a contextual setting
using the literary anthology and
other sources.
L
Required vocabulary found in
required reading selections
46
Students will understand the
relationship between context,
expression of ideas, and word
choice.
R
Required vocabulary found in
required reading selections
47
Students will improve poise.
R
48
Students will improve eye
contact.
Students will improve voice
projection and word articulation.
Students will present persuasive
and expository speeches.
R
Students will develop
organizational skills using
appropriate transitions.
Students will incorporate
rhetorical questions in speeches.
49
50
51
52
Evaluation
Page 10
Standard
1.5.11 E
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quizzes
Standardized and teachermade tests
Class discussion
Written responses
Projects
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
L
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
1.5.11 C
L
Oral presentation on selected
topics
Quality of delivery and
content per rubric
1.5.11 C
R
L
1.5.11 E
1.1.11 C
1.1.11 C
1.6.11 B
1.6.11 B
1.6.11 B
1.6.11 B
Course Objectives –
Unit
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
53
Students will understand
characteristics of this style.
R
Teacher-created assignments
54
Students will draft, revise, and
share compositions.
R
Teacher-created assignments
55
Students will write specific types
of informational communications.
L
Teacher-created assignments
56
Students will use first, second,
and third person styles.
U
Teacher-created assignments
Expository
57
Students will write five-paragraph
compositions and a research
paper.
U
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Persuasive
58
Students will understand
characteristics of this style.
Students will draft, revise, edit,
and share compositions.
Students will choose topics and
argue both the pro and con sides
of the topics.
Students will utilize loaded
language.
Students will analyze sample
writings for their efficacy as
persuasive writings.
U
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Writing
Informational
59
60
61
62
L
L
U
U
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Teacher-created assignments
Student selected topics
Evaluation
Page 11
Standard
Student generated:
compositions
poetry
short autobiographical and
biographical essays
short stories
Student generated:
compositions
poetry
short autobiographical and
biographical essays
short stories
Student generated:
compositions
poetry
short autobiographical and
biographical essays
short stories
Student generated:
compositions
poetry
short autobiographical and
biographical essays
short stories
Student generated:
essays
research papers
Student generated essays
1.5.11 C
Student generated essays
1.4.11 C
Student generated essays
1.4.11 C
Student generated essays
1.4.11 C
Student generated essays
1.4.11 C
1.5.11 C
1.5.11 C
1.5.11 C
1.5.11 C
1.4.11 C
Course Objectives –
Unit
Research
12th Grade English/Reading
Num Objective
Level
Content
63
Students will write a 3-5-page
research paper.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
64
Students will limit a topic.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
65
Students will take notes utilizing
summarization, paraphrasing, and
direct quotation techniques.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
66
Students will use the library
services.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
67
Students will use computerized
sources to search for information.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
68
Students will use parenthetical
documentation as per the MLA
specifications.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
69
Students will use manuscript
form as per the MLA
specifications.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
70
Students will generate a working
bibliography and Words Cited
page as per MLA specifications.
L
Research paper incorporating a
novel or a student selected topic
Evaluation
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Note cards
Bibliography cards
Completed research paper as
per MLA specifications
Page 12
Standard
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C
1.8.11 A
1.8.11 B
1.8.11 C