Miss Kitts

2013 - 2014

English IV Curriculum Guide

Unit Schedule (Chronological)
First Quarter: 1.1-“Epic Foundations”
  • Beowulf*
  • The Illiad (Homer)
1.2-“Myth, Romance, and Legend”
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)*
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
Second Quarter: 2.1-“European Renaissance”
Macbeth (Shakespeare)*
The Prince (Machiavelli)/Utopia(More)
Paradise Lost (Milton)
2.2-“”The Age of Satire”
  • “A Modest Proposal” (Swift)
  • Candide (Voltaire)*
Third Quarter: 3.1-“The Romantic Tradition”
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Frankenstein (Shelley)*
3.2-“Society and Empire”
  • Pride and Prejudice
Fourth Quarter: 4.1-“Modernism and the Twentieth Century”
  • The Metamorphosis (Kafka)*
  • A Room of One’s Own (Woolfe)
  • The Rocking Horse Winner
  • Shooting an Elephant
4.2-“Contemporary Voices”
  • A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Solzhenitzyn)
  • Literature Circles
  • 1984

Long Fiction / Drama/Short Fiction
Novels: Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes); Candide (Voltaire); Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy); Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce); Brave New World (Aldous Huxley); The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky); Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky); Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen); Les Miserables (Victor Hugo); Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy); The Stranger (Albert Camus); 1984 (George Orwell); A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde); Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte); Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte); One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn); Tristram Shandy (Laurence Stern) / Plays: Macbeth(William Shakespeare); Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard); A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen); The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde); Rhinoceros (Eugene Ionesco); King Lear (Shakespeare)
Selected Stories by: Robert Louis Stevenson; Rudyard Kipling; Charles Dickens; Wilkie Collins; James Joyce; Albert Camus; Angela Carter; D.H. Lawrence; Franz Kafka; Vladimir Nabokov; Frank O’Connor; E.M. Forster; Nikolai Gogol; Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn; Ivan Turgenev; Anton Chekov; Graham Greene; Jean-Paul Sartre
Poetry / Non-Fiction
Epic Poems: Gilgamesh; Beowulf; The Aeneid (Virgil); The Divine Comedy (Dante); The Decameron (Boccaccio); The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer); Paradise Lost (John Milton); Don Juan (George Gordon, Lord Byron); Idylls of the King (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Selected Poems by: Thomas Hardy; T.S. Eliot;Edmund Spenser; Robert Herrick; Christopher Marlowe; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Wilfred Owen;John Keats; W.B. Yeats;Sir John Suckling; Andrew Marvell; John Donne; Alexander Pope; John Milton; William Blake; Percy Bysshe Shelley; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; John Keats; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney; Gerard Manley Hopkins; A.E. Housman / Book-Length Works: The Republic (Plato); Utopia (Thomas More); The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli); A Room of One’s Own(Virginia Woolfe); Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov); Aspects of the Novel (E.M. Forster); Economy and Society (Max Weber); Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell); I and Thou (Martin Buber); Revolt of the Masses (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Selected Speeches, Essays, and Letters by: Francis Bacon; Jonathan Swift; Samuel Johnson; Thomas Carlyle; John Stuart Mill; Queen Elizabeth; Winston Churchill; Thomas Henry Huxley; Charles Darwin; Hermann Hesse; Doris Lessing; Albert Camus; Jean-Paul Sartre; G.K. Chesterton; Umberto Eco; Henrich Von Kleist
Writing / Speaking/Presenting
  • Informal Journal Writing
  • Reader Response Journals
  • Freewrites
  • Data Files
  • Homework Questions
  • “Voice Lessons”
  • In-Class Essays
  • Out-of-Class Essays
  • Quizzes/Reading Checks
  • Tests
  • Projects
  • One Major Research Essay
  • Creative Writing/Modeling
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  • Class Discussion
  • Small Group Discussion
  • Informal Individual Presentations
  • Formal Individual Presentations
  • Informal Group Presentations
  • Formal Group Presentations
  • One Major Literary Research Presentation

Vocabulary / Grammar & Rhetoric
  • SAT Vocabulary/Stems
  • Content Vocabulary
  • Literary/Rhetorical Terms
See Addendum for Lists /
  • Sentence Structure
  • Apposition
  • Combining
  • Coordination/Subordination
  • Avoiding Fragments/Fused Sentences
  • Punctuation
  • Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement
  • Tense
  • Person
  • Voice
  • Diction & Syntax
  • Rhetorical Appeals/Rhetorical Triangle
  • Logical Fallacies

Research
  • Original analysis of a work or works of poetry, fiction, drama, or nonfiction
  • Minimum 7-10 pages
  • Minimum 5 cited sources

Literary/Rhetorical Terms

epic

caesura

kenning

epithet

point of view

heroic couplet

blank verse

irony (types)

satire

alliteration

ballad

comedy of manners

rhetorical appeals (types)

metonymy

synecdoche

zeugma

aphorism

metaphysical conceit

anaphora

litotes

hyperbole

chiasmus

logical fallacies (types)

diction

syntax

tone

asyndeton

polysyndeton

bildungsroman

enjambment

tragedy

tragic hero

catharsis

hubris

foil

in medias res

connotation

denotation

motif