English I A

Week 1 — Introduction to Genres and Short Story Elements

Students begin with a grammar pretest and an introduction to genres of literature. They learn the difference between fiction and nonfiction, identify different literary genres, and begin studying the core elements of short stories.

Includes:
Grammar pretest, genre study, fiction vs. nonfiction, short story elements, and assignment on genres and elements of literature.

Key focus:
Students build the vocabulary needed to discuss literature clearly and academically.

Week 2 — Suspense, Setting, Foreshadowing, Plot, and Theme

Students study how writers create suspense and use setting and foreshadowing to shape reader expectations. They also learn plot structure and begin identifying theme.

Includes:
Foreshadowing, suspense, setting, plot structure, theme, and assignment analyzing “The Most Dangerous Game.”

Key focus:
Students learn how stories are structured and how authors build tension and meaning.

Week 3 — Flashback, Irony, Symbolism, Characterization, and Tone

Students study nonlinear plot, flashback, verb tense, irony, symbols, characterization, tone, mood, satire, and literary devices.

Includes:
Irony assignment, literary devices assignment, short story quiz, and literary analysis practice.

Key focus:
Students learn how authors use specific devices to shape meaning and reader response.

Week 4 — Nonfiction: Biography, Autobiography, Personal Essay, and Opinion

Students move from fiction to nonfiction. They learn about biography, autobiography, text structures, text features, personal essays, opinion pieces, facts, opinions, main ideas, sentence structures, and author style.

Includes:
Biography and autobiography assignment, personal essay and opinion piece assignment, and nonfiction quiz.

Key focus:
Students understand how nonfiction communicates information, experience, and perspective.

Week 5 — Writing Your Opinion: Prewriting and Drafting

Students begin the writing process for an opinion essay. They select a topic, identify audience and purpose, create a thesis statement, and write a first draft.

Includes:
Topic selection assignment and Unpopular Opinion first draft submission.

Key focus:
Students learn that writing begins with planning, purpose, audience, and a clear thesis.

Week 6 — Writing Your Opinion: Revising, Editing, and Publishing

Students revise their opinion essays using transitions, parallel structure, and sentence flow. They then edit for semicolons, colons, and final presentation.

Includes:
Revision activities and Unpopular Opinion final draft submission.

Key focus:
Students learn how to improve writing through revision, editing, and polishing.

Week 7 — Poetry: Imagery, Sensory Language, Form, and Structure

Students begin poetry by studying imagery, sensory language, poetic terms, form, and structure.

Includes:
Poetry reading, imagery analysis, form and structure analysis, and assignment on imagery, form, and structure in poetry.

Key focus:
Students learn how poems create meaning through images, senses, and structure.

Week 8 — Poetry: Figurative Language, Sound, Paraphrase, and Word Choice

Students analyze figures of speech, sound devices, paraphrasing, and word choice.

Includes:
Figurative language and sound assignment, poetry reading strategies, and word choice analysis.

Key focus:
Students understand how poetic language works differently from ordinary language.

Week 9 — Poetry: Allusion, Theme, Speaker, Comparison, and Contrast

Students study poems about impermanence, war, immigration, and exile. They compare and contrast poems and identify speakers, themes, allusions, and main ideas.

Includes:
Comparing and contrasting poetry assignment, “The New Colossus” and “In Exile” assignment, and poetry quiz.

Key focus:
Students learn to interpret poetry across themes, contexts, and perspectives.

Week 10 — Writing About Poetry

Students write a comparison-and-contrast essay about poetry. They prewrite, organize, draft, revise, edit, and publish.

Includes:
Graphic organizer, first draft submission, revision for formal tone and clauses, final draft submission.

Key focus:
Students turn literary interpretation into structured academic writing.

Week 11 — Informational Texts: Reading for Information, News, Interviews, and Articles

Students learn strategies for reading informational texts. They study newspaper stories, radio interviews, magazine feature articles, text purpose, mass media, and summary.

Includes:
Reading for information assignment and informational texts vocabulary assignment.

Key focus:
Students learn how to gather meaning from real-world informational texts.

Week 12 — Rhetoric and Historical Speeches

Students study rhetoric, persuasive strategies, logical appeals, rhetorical devices, historical speeches, audience, purpose, and effectiveness.

Includes:
Infamy Speech, “The Gettysburg Address,” “Address to World Conference on Women,” bravery discussion, speeches assignment, and quiz.

Key focus:
Students learn how speakers use language to persuade, inspire, and shape public meaning.

Week 13 — Arguments: Claims, Audience, and Research

Students begin argument writing. They learn the difference between persuasion and argument, identify elements of an argument, narrow a topic, construct a claim, analyze audience, and find credible sources.

Includes:
Topic and claim assignment and research preparation.

Key focus:
Students learn how arguments are built from claims, evidence, audience awareness, and credible research.

Week 14 — Arguments: Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Presenting

Students draft an argument, integrate in-text citations, create a works cited list, revise with rhetorical appeals, edit for homophones and spelling, and practice delivering a speech.

Includes:
Argument first draft, inaugural address analysis, final argument submission, and speech delivery.

Key focus:
Students learn to communicate an evidence-based position clearly and responsibly.

Week 15 — Person Against Nature

Students study literature centered on conflict between human beings and nature. They analyze “To a Mouse,” “Pompeii,” “Lobo, The King of Currumpaw,” and “To Build a Fire.”

Includes:
Assignments on “To a Mouse” and “Pompeii,” “Lobo” and “To Build a Fire,” and quiz.

Key focus:
Students analyze conflict, theme, author’s purpose, sources, perspective, and naturalism.

Week 16 — Myths: Greek Mythology, Themes, and Cultural Stories

Students study ancient Greek gods and goddesses, the Contest for Athens, Echo and Narcissus, Orpheus and Eurydice, creation stories, and flood stories.

Includes:
Gods and Goddesses assignment, Echo and Narcissus / Orpheus and Eurydice assignment, and creation and flood stories assignment.

Key focus:
Students understand myths as cultural stories that explain values, origins, identity, and human experience.

Week 17 — Myth Research and Presentation

Students choose a myth, retell the plot by paraphrasing, determine its purpose and theme, and create a digital presentation.

Includes:
Myth research, myth presentation submission, and myths quiz.

Key focus:
Students combine literary understanding, research, paraphrasing, and digital presentation.

Week 18 — Final Review and English I A Exam

Students review the semester and prepare for the English I A final exam. They create a study plan, learn concentration strategies, review question types, and complete the grammar post-test and final exam.

Includes:
Study plan, concentration strategies, multiple-choice / true-false / short-answer strategies, brain-based learning, grammar post-test, and final exam.

Key focus:
Students consolidate their reading, writing, grammar, and literary analysis skills.

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Students are assessed through quizzes, tests, written assignments, essays, discussions, presentations, participation, grammar tests, research work, and semester exams. The grading structure is 30% quizzes and tests, 50% assignments, presentations, labs, essays, artwork, discussions, and participation, and 20% course final. Participation, regular attendance, staying on pace, and academic honesty are required for success.

Examples of assignments include:

Genres and Elements of Literature
Analyzing “The Most Dangerous Game”
Irony
Literary Devices
Biography and Autobiography
Personal Essay and Opinion Piece
Unpopular Opinion First Draft and Final Draft
Imagery, Form, and Structure in Poetry
Figurative Language and Sound in Poetry
Comparing and Contrasting Poetry
Speech analysis
Topic and Claim
Argument First Draft and Final Submission
Person Against Nature assignments
Gods and Goddesses
Myth Presentation
Punctuation and grammar assignments
Narrative Nonfiction Essay
Humor story analysis
Romeo and Juliet Act assignments
Research Paper Draft and Final Draft
The Call of the Wild assignments
Functional Documents
Cover Letter and Résumé
Final exams for English I A and English I B

Ελληνικά
Οι μαθητές αξιολογούνται μέσα από κουίζ, τεστ, γραπτές εργασίες, essays, συζητήσεις, παρουσιάσεις, συμμετοχή, grammar tests, ερευνητικές εργασίες και τελικές εξετάσεις εξαμήνου. Η βαθμολογική δομή είναι 30% κουίζ και τεστ, 50% εργασίες, παρουσιάσεις, labs, essays, artwork, συζητήσεις και συμμετοχή, και 20% τελική εξέταση. Η συμμετοχή, η τακτική παρουσία, η συνέπεια στον ρυθμό του μαθήματος και η ακαδημαϊκή ακεραιότητα είναι απαραίτητες για την επιτυχία.

Παραδείγματα εργασιών περιλαμβάνουν:

Genres and Elements of Literature
Ανάλυση του “The Most Dangerous Game”
Irony
Literary Devices
Biography and Autobiography
Personal Essay and Opinion Piece
Unpopular Opinion First Draft και Final Draft
Imagery, Form, and Structure in Poetry
Figurative Language and Sound in Poetry
Comparing and Contrasting Poetry
Ανάλυση ομιλιών
Topic and Claim
Argument First Draft και Final Submission
Εργασίες Person Against Nature
Gods and Goddesses
Myth Presentation
Εργασίες στίξης και γραμματικής
Narrative Nonfiction Essay
Ανάλυση χιουμοριστικών κειμένων
Εργασίες Romeo and Juliet ανά πράξη
Research Paper Draft και Final Draft
Εργασίες The Call of the Wild
Functional Documents
Cover Letter και Résumé

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Through this course, students develop:

Reading comprehension
Literary analysis
Writing process skills
Essay planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
Grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and usage
Vocabulary development
Research and source evaluation
Argument writing and claim development
Use of textual evidence and citations
Rhetorical analysis
Speech and presentation skills
Poetry interpretation
Comparison and contrast writing
Narrative nonfiction writing
Understanding of drama and Shakespearean language
Novel analysis
Functional and workplace writing
Critical thinking and interpretation
Academic honesty and responsible use of sources

Ελληνικά
Μέσα από το μάθημα, οι μαθητές αναπτύσσουν:

Κατανόηση κειμένου
Λογοτεχνική ανάλυση
Δεξιότητες διαδικασίας γραφής
Σχεδιασμό, προσχέδιο, αναθεώρηση, επιμέλεια και τελική υποβολή essays
Γραμματική, στίξη, δομή προτάσεων και σωστή χρήση της γλώσσας
Ανάπτυξη λεξιλογίου
Έρευνα και αξιολόγηση πηγών
Επιχειρηματολογία και ανάπτυξη claim
Χρήση τεκμηρίων και παραπομπών
Ρητορική ανάλυση
Δεξιότητες ομιλίας και παρουσίασης
Ερμηνεία ποίησης
Σύγκριση και αντιπαραβολή κειμένων
Γραφή narrative nonfiction
Κατανόηση θεάτρου και γλώσσας του Shakespeare
Ανάλυση μυθιστορήματος
Λειτουργική και επαγγελματική γραφή
Κριτική σκέψη και ερμηνεία
Ακαδημαϊκή ακεραιότητα και υπεύθυνη χρήση πηγών

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Identify and analyze literary genres
Explain plot, setting, mood, tone, theme, conflict, irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, flashback, and characterization
Analyze short stories, nonfiction, poetry, speeches, myths, drama, novels, and functional documents
Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction
Compare biography, autobiography, personal essay, opinion writing, memoir, and narrative nonfiction
Use the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish essays
Write opinion, comparison-and-contrast, argument, narrative nonfiction, and research-based essays
Use credible sources and avoid plagiarism
Integrate in-text citations and create a works cited list
Analyze rhetorical appeals and devices in speeches
Interpret poetry through imagery, structure, figurative language, sound, theme, and speaker
Analyze Shakespearean drama and understand major elements of tragedy
Apply MLA formatting to research writing
Read and analyze a novel
Create and evaluate functional documents, including memos, business letters, cover letters, and résumés
Use grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and formal tone more effectively
Prepare for exams using study plans and concentration strategies

Ελληνικά
Με την ολοκλήρωση του μαθήματος, οι μαθητές θα μπορούν να:

Αναγνωρίζουν και να αναλύουν λογοτεχνικά είδη
Εξηγούν πλοκή, σκηνικό, ατμόσφαιρα, τόνο, θέμα, σύγκρουση, ειρωνεία, συμβολισμό, προοικονομία, flashback και χαρακτηρισμό
Αναλύουν διηγήματα, nonfiction κείμενα, ποίηση, ομιλίες, μύθους, θέατρο, μυθιστορήματα και λειτουργικά έγγραφα
Ξεχωρίζουν τη μυθοπλασία από το nonfiction
Συγκρίνουν βιογραφία, αυτοβιογραφία, προσωπικό essay, opinion writing, memoir και narrative nonfiction
Χρησιμοποιούν τη διαδικασία γραφής για να σχεδιάζουν, να γράφουν προσχέδια, να αναθεωρούν, να επιμελούνται και να ολοκληρώνουν essays
Γράφουν opinion, comparison-and-contrast, argument, narrative nonfiction και research-based essays
Χρησιμοποιούν αξιόπιστες πηγές και αποφεύγουν τη λογοκλοπή
Ενσωματώνουν in-text citations και δημιουργούν works cited list
Αναλύουν ρητορικές τεχνικές και appeals σε ομιλίες
Ερμηνεύουν ποίηση μέσα από εικόνες, δομή, μεταφορική γλώσσα, ήχο, θέμα και ομιλητή
Αναλύουν έργα του Shakespeare και κατανοούν βασικά στοιχεία της τραγωδίας
Εφαρμόζουν MLA formatting σε ερευνητικές εργασίες
Διαβάζουν και αναλύουν μυθιστόρημα
Δημιουργούν και αξιολογούν λειτουργικά έγγραφα, όπως memos, business letters, cover letters και résumés
Χρησιμοποιούν πιο σωστά γραμματική, στίξη, δομή προτάσεων και formal tone
Προετοιμάζονται για εξετάσεις με πλάνο μελέτης και στρατηγικές συγκέντρωσης

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