Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 1 /
  • Literature:
Introduction/Orientation to English IV-British Literature
  • Writing:
Introductory Writing-Student’s Autobiographical Essay or Letter.
  • Vocabulary: Anglo-Saxon literary terms: caesura, lyric, epic, scop, alliteration, kenning, epithet, riddle, and other Anglo-Saxon words from literature.
  • Grammar:
Grammar Diagnostic/
Assessment
“The Parts of Speech” / 1.01, 1.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 /
  • Syllabus, Rules and Procedures, and Student Handbook
  • “The Anglo-Saxons” pp. 1-17
  • Grammar Workbook/Test
/ Holt Textbook
Course Syllabus, Rules and Procedures, and Student Handbook
Power Notes for time Period
Beowulf
Grammar/Language Handbook p.1206
Week 2 /
  • Literature:
Beowulf: Epic Hero/Tale
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
  • Writing:
Description Essay
  • Vocabulary:
Anglo-Saxon Vocab.
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic
“Agreement”
Daily Oral Language / 1.02, 2.02, 4.01, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Intro. to Beowulf pp. 18
Part One pp.21
Part Two pp.33
“The Seafarer”
compare to
“Break, Break, Break” / Holt Textbook
Video-Beowulf
Writing Workshop: Writing a Descriptive Essay pp. 74
Rubrics
Assessments
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 3 /
  • Literature:
Introduction to the Middle Ages
Middle Age Poetry-Ballads
The Canterbury Tales-characterization
  • Writing:
Writing Poetry-Ballad
  • Vocabulary:
Medieval Age Literary terms: iambic pentameter, heroic, couplet, ballad, protagonist, antagonist, characterization, irony, rhyme, satire, frame story, and other Medieval Age words
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Using Verbs”; DOL / 2.01, 2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Introduction to the Middle Ages pp.90-94
“Lord Randall”
“Get and Bar the Door”
The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
Other selected “Tales” / Power Notes for time period
Holt Textbook
Video-The Canterbury Tales;
Chaucer, The Prologue
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 4 /
  • Literature:
Middle Age Poetry-Ballads
The Canterbury Tales-characterization
  • Writing:
Writing Poetry-Ballad
  • Vocabulary:
Medieval Age Literary terms
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Using Pronouns”; DOL / 2.01, 2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / “Lord Randall”
“Get and Bar the Door”
The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
Other selected “Tales” / Holt Textbook
Video-The Canterbury Tales;
Chaucer, The Prologue
Grammar/Language Handbook and Workbook
Daily Oral Language
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 5 /
  • Literature:
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
Le Morte D’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Reporting Literary Research
Listening/Speaking: Presenting
  • Vocabulary:
Medieval Ages Terms and Vocab.
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Using Modifiers”; Daily Oral Language / 2.01, 2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 /  “The Pardoner’s Tale”
Other selected “Tales”
Le Morte D’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Holt Textbook
Copies of Sir Gawain
Video-Merlin, King Arthur, The Knights of the Round Table
Writing Workshop: Reporting Literary Research pp. 204
Listening/Speaking Workshop:
Presenting Lit. Research pp. 224
Grammar/Language Handbook and Workbook; Daily Oral Lang.
Week 6 /
  • Literature:
Le Morte D’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Reporting Literary Research
Listening/Speaking: Presenting Literary Research
  • Vocabulary:
Medieval Ages Terms and Vocab.
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; Daily Oral Language correction / 2.01, 2.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 /  Le Morte D’Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Holt Textbook
Copies of Sir Gawain
Videos: Merlin, King Arthur, The Knights of the Round Table; Gawain and the Green Knight
Writing Workshop: Reporting Literary Research pp. 204
Listening/Speaking Workshop:
Presenting Lit. Research pp. 224
Grammar/Language Handbook and Workbook
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 7 /
  • Literature:
Introduction to The Renaissance
Elizabethan Poetry
Sonnets
  • Writing:
Writing Poetry-Sonnets
Listening/Speaking:
Speeches- Shakespeare’s Sonnets/plays
  • Vocabulary:
Renaissance Literary terms: miracle play, mystery play, interlude, sonnet, blank verse, iambic pentameter, couplet, aside, soliloquy, tragedy, tragic hero, comedy, protagonist, antagonist, anachronism, foil, tragic flaw, irony, theme, comic relief, pun, imagery, metaphor, simile, symbolism, climax
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Phrases” / 1.02, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Introduction to
The Renaissance pp.234-238
Elizabethan poetry, sonnets:
Other selected poems.
Sonnets: suggested
Spencer and Petrarch
Shakespearean Sonnets
Macbeth / Power Notes for time period
Holt Textbook
Video- A&E Biography: William Shakespeare
Complete Copies of Macbeth; Hamletplays
Suggested supplemental materials:
Shakespeare-Made-Easy: Macbeth
Other suggested plays: Much Ado About Nothing; Taming of the Shrew
Writing Workshop pp. 390
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 398
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 8 /
  • Literature:
Sonnets
Macbeth
  • Writing:
Writing Poetry-Sonnets
Listening/Speaking:
Speeches- Shakespeare’s Sonnets/plays
  • Vocabulary:
Renaissance Literary terms.
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Clauses”; DOL / 1.02, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Sonnets: suggested
Spencer and Petrarch
Shakespearean Sonnets
Speeches: “To be, or not to be” from Hamlet pp. 292; “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” from Macbethpp. 295
Play: Macbeth / Holt Textbook
Complete Copies of Macbeth; Hamletplays
Suggested supplemental materials:
Shakespeare-Made-Easy: Macbeth
Writing Workshop pp. 390
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 398
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 9 /
  • Literature:
Macbeth
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop –Analyzing Literature
Listening/Speaking:
Speeches- Shakespeare’s Sonnets/plays
  • Vocabulary:
Renaissance Literary terms.
  • Grammar:
Review Previous Grammar Lessons
  • Mid-Term Exam: End of Nine- Weeks
/ 1.02, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Speeches: “To be, or not to be” from Hamlet pp. 292; “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” from Macbethpp. 295
Play: Macbeth / Holt Textbook
Complete Copies of Macbeth or Hamletplays
Suggested supplemental materials:
Shakespeare-Made-Easy: Macbeth
Writing Workshop pp. 390
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 398
Grammar/Language Handbook
Mid-Term Exam
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Supplemental Material
Week 10 /
  • Mid-Term Exam: End of Nine- Weeks
  • Literature:
Macbeth
Introduction to 17th Century Poetry
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop –Analyzing Literature
Listening/Speaking:
Speeches- Shakespeare’s Sonnets/plays
  • Vocabulary:
Renaissance Literary terms and 17th Century Poetry
  • Grammar:
Focus on issues determined by Grammar diagnostic; “Sentence Structure”; DOL / 1.01, 1.01, 2.01, 2.02,2.03, 3.01, 3.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Play: Macbeth
Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Johnson
Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell
John Donne, John Milton, / Mid-Term Exam
Holt Textbook
Complete Copies of Macbeth or Hamletplays
Suggested supplemental materials:
Shakespeare-Made-Easy: Macbeth
Video: Macbeth, Hamlet or other titles suggested with the study of Shakespeare
Writing Workshop pp. 390
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 398
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 11
Week 11
(cont’) /
  • Literature: Introduction to 17th Century Poetry
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Analyzing Literature
Vocabulary:
17th Century literary terms: masque, metaphysical poetry, cavalier poetry, meter and foot, stanza, tone, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, allusion, repetition, pastoral, paradox, hyperbole, conceits, puns, blank, verse, lyric, carpe diem, apostrophe, symbol, synecdoche, setting, review of sonnet terms
  • Grammar:
“Sentence Style”; DOL / 1.02, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Johnson
Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell
John Donne, John Milton, / Holt Textbook
Writing Workshop pp. 390
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 398
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 12 /
  • Literature:
Introduction to The Restoration and
Eighteenth Century
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Literary Essay
Listening/Speaking:
Presenting a Literary Response
  • Vocabulary:
Age of Reason Literary terms:
wit, meter, foot, stanza, tone, alliteration, personification, allusion, repetition, paradox, hyperbole, conceits, puns, blank verse, apostrophe, symbol, elegy, heroic, couplet, irony, aphorism, epistolary, episodic, plot, setting, conflict, characters, point of view, tone, mood, theme, satire, sarcasm, burlesque, parody
  • Grammar:
“Sentence Combining”; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Introduction to
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century pp. 408-412
Selected Poetry:
John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope
Selected Prose:
Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Samuel Pepys, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding / Power Notes for time period
Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 500
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 508
Suggested Novel Selection:
Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre.
Video Analysis: A&E Presents: Pride and Prejudice (Note: 6+ hrs.)
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Suggested Supplemental Material
Week 13 /
  • Literature:
Satire: Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Literary Essay
Listening/Speaking:
Presenting a Literary Response
  • Vocabulary:
Age of Reason Literary terms.
  • Grammar:
“Sentence Combining”; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Selected Prose:
Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Samuel Pepys, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding
Satire: Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin / Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 500
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 508
Suggested Novel Selection:
Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre.
Video Analysis: A&E Presents: Pride and Prejudice (Note: 6+ hrs.)
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 14 /
  • Literature:
Satire: Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Literary Essay
Listening/Speaking:
Presenting a Literary Response
  • Vocabulary:
Age of Reason Literary terms.
  • Grammar:
“Capitalization, Spelling, and Punctuation”; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.02, 4.01, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Selected Prose:
Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Samuel Pepys, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Henry Fielding
Satire: Swift’s “Modest Proposal” and Pope’s “Rape of the Lock”
Pride and Prejudice / Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 500
Listening/Speaking Workshop pp. 508
Suggested Novel Selection:
Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre.
Video Analysis: A&E Presents: Pride and Prejudice (Note: 6+ hrs.)
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Suggested Supplemental Material
Week 15 /
  • Literature:
Introduction to The Romantic Period
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Reflective Essay
Listening/Speaking:
Presenting a Reflection
  • Vocabulary:
Literary terms:
meter, foot, stanza, tone, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, allusion, repetition, rhythm, paradox, hyperbole, conceits, puns, blank, verse, apostrophe, symbol, irony, ode, satire, dialect, imagery, requiem, dirge, canto, sonnet, review, rhyme, Gothic novel, grotesque
  • Grammar:
“Capitalization, Spelling, and Punctuation”; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Introduction to

The Romantic Period

pp. 518-522
Selected Poets:
Thomas Gray
William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Selected Prose: / Power Notes for time period
Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 656
Listening/Speaking Workshop
pp. 664
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Suggested Novel Selection:
Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre.
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Suggested Supplemental Material
Week 16 /
  • Literature:
The Romantic Poetry
Introduction to the Victorian Age
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  • Writing:
Writing Workshop: Comparing and Contrasting Literature
  • Vocabulary:
Literary terms:
  • Grammar:
“Usage”; Sentence Diagramming; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Selected Poets:
Lord Byron, George Gordon, Percy B. Shelley and John Keats
Introduction to the Victorian Age pp. 674-678
Selected Victorian Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Matthew Arnold / Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 784
Suggested Novel Selection:
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, The Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, William M. Thackery, Thomas Hardy, and others
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 17
Week 17
(cont’) /
  • Literature:
Introduction to the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century
  • Writing:
Media and Writing Workshop: Analyzing and Using Media
  • Vocabulary:
Review of Previous List
  • Grammar:
“Usage”; Sentence Diagramming; DOL / 1.02, 2.01, 2.02, 4.02, 5.01, 5.02, 6.01, 6.02 / Introduction to the 19th, 20th, and 21st Century pp. 800-804
Selected Modern Writers: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, D.H. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Graham Greene, Rudyard Kipling,
James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Conrad, Katharine Mansfield, Frank O’Conner, Elizabeth Bowen / Holt Textbook
Copies of Selected Texts
Writing Workshop pp. 1112
Suggested Novel Selection:
Charles Dickens, George Eliot, The Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, William M. Thackery, Thomas Hardy, and others.
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Week 18 /
  • Literature:
Review for Exams
  • Writing:
Review for Exams
  • Vocabulary:
Review for Exams
  • Grammar:
Review for Exams
  • Final Exam for English IV
/ All competency goals should be covered in the review for the semester. / Review all texts previously read and analyzed throughout the semester. / Holt Textbook
Selected Texts
Grammar/Language Handbook
Daily Oral Language
Notes, Assignments, Tests, Papers, Games, question/answer review, practice questions
Final Exam and (possible research paper or essay rubrics)
Timeline/Dates / Topic/Theme/Unit / ELA Objectives / Text(s) / Materials/ Resources needed
Suggested Supplemental Material