Subject Area: English
Course Title: Senior
English
Course Length: Year
Grade Level: Seniors
Major Concepts:
The purpose of this
course is to contextualize reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
within students’ career or college paths.
Content: The content shall include but is not
limited to the following:
- Writing
process.
- Vocabulary
study.
- Internet
research.
- Comparative
essays.
- Mock
job interviews.
- Résumé,
cover letter, and letter of application writing.
- Literary
analyses of A Separate Peace and Murder on the Orient Express.
- Group,
paired, and individual oral presentations.
Special Note: Students
need a three-ring binder and a single-subject notebook.
Intended Outcomes:
After successfully
completing this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate each step of the writing
process: brainstorm, draft, write, revise, and edit.
- Use a variety of memorization and
contextual skills to enhance vocabulary.
- Conduct Internet research to find
factual information on multiple jobs.
- Write a comparative essay, literary
analysis, letter to the editor, cover letter, résumé, letter of
application, letter of complaint, and interview transcript.
- Deliver a variety of oral presentations
to demonstrate knowledge of content, including mock interview, group discussion
leading, and individual presentation with good use of multimedia and class
participation.
- Discuss literary themes present in class
novels, analyze texts for an author’s purpose, and cite examples of
various literary devices and use of figurative language.
- Use correct Modern Language Association
format.
- Avoid plagiarism.
Grading: Students
will be graded on the following criteria:
1. Daily
work 25%
2. Writing
portfolio 30%
3. Quizzes 10%
4. Oral
Presentation of research 10%
5. Semester
Exam 10%
6. Final
Exam 15%
7.
Scheduled conferences with me