Academic+English+4

Welcome. The following information is a general outline of the course and includes links to most readings and documents that are used in class. This page serves as a resource center in case of absences or lost documents. The page is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.


 * __MIDTERM__** __**UPDATE: ALL MIDTERM MATERIAL IS LABELED. USE ONLINE TEXTBOOK & ACTIVATION CODE FOR SUPPORT**__

MIDTERM REVIEW PACKET:

ACADEMIC ENGLISH: 4A

Course Syllabus: North Allegheny Style Manual: [|North Allegheny Style Manual]

Online Essay Smart Activation Code: 6654003-40
 * Online Textbook Link**: [|Academic English 4 Online Textbook]
 * Online Textbook Activation Code**: 6654003-30

Estimated Time: 35 days.
 * UNIT 1**: Anglo Saxon & Medieval Periods: approx. 450-1066/1066-1485

__Anglo-Saxon__: 450-1066
 * Historical Overview**: Notes from Unit 1 readings: Pages 19-23.

Works: //**MIDTERM: Beowulf**//: Burton (Translation): Online Textbook Page 36.
 * //MIDTERM: The Wanderer//**: Online Textbook Page 104.

Class Documents:

Handout:
 * //MIDTERM://** Unit 1 Handout: [[file:AngloSaxonThemes.doc]]

__Middle Ages__: 1066-1485
 * Historical Overview**: Notes from Unit 1 readings: Pages 24-29.

//**MIDTERM: The Prologue**//: Online Textbook Page 140.
 * //The Canterbury Tales://**
 * //MIDTERM: The Wife of Bath's// Tale**: Online Textbook Page 179.
 * //The Miller's// Tale**: Class Packet
 * //MIDTERM: The Pardoner's// Tale**: Online Textbook Page 165

Class Documents: Canterbury Tales Prologue Guide: //**MIDTERM**//: Chivalry & Courtly Love: //**MIDTERM:**// Iambic Pentameter Reference: Iambic Pentameter Line Auction Rubric:


 * //MIDTERM: Sir Gawain & The Green Knigh//**t: Online Textbook Page 224.

__Compare & Contrast Process Essay__: 7 Days

Theme Connection: Compare & Contrast either literary characters/works/genres from the historical period(s) OR two other works of interest.

Documents: The following documents can help you with your final draft: BEST OF LUCK, WRITE YOUR BEST ESSAY.

: This document gives a general introduction and a point-by-point opening body paragraph. : This document gives you a series of rhetorical devices to try in your writing. : This document gives you a series of rhetorical devices to try in your writing.

NOTE: a semicolon and a colon must appear at least once in your final compare/contrast essay.

It is merely a sample. : This document gives general expectations and states possible considerations for your writing approach.

Links: The following links can help you with your final draft:

Active vs. Passive Voice: [|Passive vs. Active Voice]: This link gives you examples of passive voice and demonstrates how to change passive voice to active voice. Notice the several tabs in the table of contents.

Estimated Time: 33 days.
 * UNIT 2**: Renaissance Period:1485-1660

Historical Overview:

Works: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love": Marlowe: [|Passionate Shepherd to His Love] "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd": Raleigh: [|Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd] Pastoral Poetry: Partner Project

"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning": Donne: [|A Valediction Forbidding Mourning]

Shakespeare:

//**MIDTERM**//: The Tragedy of Macbeth: [|The Tragedy of Macbeth: Full Text]

Class Documents: Shakespearean Sonnets: Iambic Pentameter Guide: Pastoral Poetry Activity:

Extended Analogy Core Essay: 2 days

Theme Connection: Compose an in-class extended analogy essay.


 * UNIT 3**: The Restoration & 18th Century Period: 1660-1800/1800-1832

Estimated Time: 19 days Historical Overview:

Works: //**MIDTERM**//: "A Modest Proposal": Swift: [|A Modest Proposal]

Argument Process Essay: 7 days

Theme Connection: Create a well-developed definition for one of the following: pride, courage, family, success, virtue, failure (to name a few examples). Explore this definition.

Options: Identify a key term from studied literature and follow its progression through the literature OR identify a key term and follow its progression in the world around you.

North Allegheny Style Manual: [|North Allegheny Style Manual]

General Assignment Handout:

Coordination & Subordination: The following are two informative links dealing with subordination and coordination. You as a writer you are expected to use ONE instance of EACH in this Argument process essay.

.: This 10-slide Powerpoint covers pages specific to the NA Style Manual. The Style Manual Link can be found above.

END OF 1st SEMESTER

ACADEMIC ENGLISH: 4B


 * UNIT 4**: The Romantic Period: 1800-1832

Historical Overview:

Works: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey": Wordsworth: [|Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey] "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud": Wordsworth: [|I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud] "Ozymandias": Bysshe Shelley: [|Ozymandias] Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge: Textbook

The Victorian Period: 1832-1901 Historical Overview:

Works: "Porphyria's Lover": R. Browning: [|Porphyria's Lover] "To An Athlete Dying Young": Housman: [|To An Athlete Dying Young] "Invictus": Henley: [|Invictus]


 * UNIT 5**: Modern Period, & Assorted: 1901-

Historical Overview:

Works: "How Much Land Does a Man Need?": Tolstoy: [|How Much Land Does a Man Need?] "Warning to Children": Graves: [|Warning to Children]


 * UNIT 6**: The Research Paper

Works Studied:

The Wanderer: Supplemental Text Beowulf Introduction- [|Beowulf Introduction] Beowulf Sections (Navigation Tabs @ Bottom of Sections- [|Beowulf. Section 1]

The Canterbury Tales: Prologue- [|The Prologue] Wife of Bath's Tale- [|The Wife of Bath's Tale] The Pardoner's Tale- [|The Pardoner's Tale]

Sir Gawain & The Green Knight- [|Sir Gawain & The Green Knight]

Shakespearean Sonnets- Selected Work(s) The Tragedy of Macbeth (Navigation Tabs @ Bottom/End of Sections)- [|The Tragedy of Macbeth]

The Passionate Shepherd/The Nymph's Reply- [|The Passionate Shepherd & The Nymph's Reply] A Modest Proposal- [|A Modest Proposal] A Valediction Forbidding Mourning- [|A Valediction Forbidding Mourning] To A Mouse- [|To a Mouse] To A Louse- Supplemental Text

The World is Too Much With Us- [|The World is Too Much With Us] I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud- Supplemental Text The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- [|The Rime of the Ancient Mariner] Ozymandias- [|Ozymandias] Porphyria's Lover- [|Porphyria's Lover]

To An Athlete Dying Young- [|To An Athlete Dying Young] How Much Land Does a Man Need?- [|How Much Land Does a Man Need?]