PAP English II


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PAP English 2 builds on skills developed in prior English courses, and focuses on stronger analysis, text-based evidence, credibility, and connections, as well as exposure to non-fiction, short-fiction, classic novels, and plays. Assessments will have both written and multiple choice components, based on the skill being assessed. Students will take an English 2 STAAR EOC in the spring semester.

POSSIBLE TEXTS / COURSE OUTLINE

Students do not need to purchase any books for this class at this time. If a student should like to purchase any of the texts listed for their own reading, they are welcome to do so.

1st 9 Weeks

Students will begin the year with short fiction.

We will then explore the idea of credibility and what it means to be authoritative. Students will conduct research and assemble a paper using MLA sources and proper citation.

Students will also read works of literary non-fiction, excerpts of short articles and novels that are accounts of true events conveyed through imaginative prose.

We will finish the 9 weeks with a focus on expository, or informational writing.


2nd 9 Weeks

This nine weeks will be split between the play, Flowers for Algernon, and related fiction/non-fiction.

Students will also begin working on persuasive writing. We will work together to write process papers, which students will then need to revise into a clean, final draft with proper citations.

3rd 9 Weeks

We begin with a poetry unit and then move into a longer unit recapping persuasive writing.

We will then read works of cultural short-fiction, including graphic novels.

Throughout, we will work on analysis, the use of text evidence, and proper writing conventions.

4th 9 Weeks

Following STAAR, we will begin reading Animal Farm by George Orwell and discussing power, authority, and types of government. We will wrap up this unit with a Socratic Seminar, where students will have to defend their answers and participate in a class conversation.

We will conclude the year by reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.