English 12

Edon Northwest High School Instructor: Mrs. Danielle Wolfe 

English 12 Syllabus  dwolfe@edon-nw.org 

         419-272-3213 ext. 1106

Course Objectives:

The twelfth-grade student will complete the following:

• plan and deliver effective oral presentations

• use organizational skills

• use appropriate verbal and nonverbal presentation skills

• choose language and tone appropriate to the audience and purpose

• use technology and understanding of media

• to create, organize, and display knowledge

• ensure others can access, view, and use presentation information

• expand general and specialized vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and viewing

• analyze and recognize major literary forms and their elements from

• British literature and literature of other cultures

• analyze and synthesize information using nonfiction texts to solve problems

• produce logically organized informational, expository, and persuasive/argumentative papers

• demonstrate knowledgeable judgments, and effective conclusions.

• produce a well-documented major research product, by locating, evaluating, synthesizing, and document information following ethical and legal guidelines

• demonstrate advanced knowledge of grammatical conventions through writing, editing, and speaking

Teacher Expectations:

• Students attend class regularly, communicate with teacher about scheduled absences, and obtain and complete make-up work.  

• Students come to classes prepared and ready to work. This includes having all needed materials, homework and prep work completed, and limited requests to use class time for other needs.

• Students will appropriately use their own technology as well as technology provided by the school. Student’s personal devices should be put away during direct instruction and student work time unless permission is granted by teacher for use. No technology should be present during assessments. School provided technology should be well cared for and properly handled and put away each day. 

• Students need to check grades and progress regularly and communicate with teacher as concerns arise. English 12 is required for graduation and students at risk of failing should seek assistance early in the semester. 

Homework: Homework is assigned as a means to practice skills.  We may go over homework during the class period following the assignment; therefore, some late homework may not be accepted. Alternative assignments could be assigned which address the same objectives to ensure learning occurs. Students should be reading outside of class, revising essays, and reviewing vocabulary and other materials covered in the lessons. If homework cannot be completed at home, students are encouraged to seek extra help and stay after school.

Late/Missing Work: It is the student’s responsibility to initiate make-up missing work. This can be done prior to class starting or after school. If a student does not attempt the work or is absent for an assignment, he/she will receive an Incomplete for that assignment. After one week, the incomplete will be change to a zero unless the assignment is completed and submitted. 

General Course Outline: (subject to change)

Unit 1: College and Career Writing

• • • • This I Believe Essays

      • Scholarship Writing and College Applications

      • Career Documents: Resume, Cover Letter, Thank you Letter 

Unit 2: Hero’s Journey

• • • • • Beowulf, Aeneid, Dante, Homer

        • Novel- Crystal Cove

        • Arthurian Legends: Sir Mallory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere 

Unit 3: Argumentative Essays and Speeches

Unit 4: Writing Analysis

• • • • • Letter from Birmingham Jail

        • Narrative of Frederick Douglass

        • Satire: Modest Proposal

Unit 5: Fictional Literature

• • • • Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

      • Shakespeare- Midsummer Night’s Dream

      • Swift- Gulliver’s Travels

Unit 6: Narrative Writing

• • • • Student produced non- Chronological story

         Unit 7: Final Research Project 

Academic Honesty: Students at Edon Northwest High School are expected to take responsibility for their conduct in both their social and academic actions. Academic honesty requires that students turn in work that is their own and shows their best effort. Academic dishonesty would include cheating or plagiarism.

Definition of Plagiarize: to steal and pass off as one’s own (the ideas or words of another); use (a created production) without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 1986, p. 1728)

Plagiarism may include:

• Lack of in-text documentation

• Not using quotation marks for direct quotes

• Paraphrasing and not giving credit

• Direct copying and submitting as the student’s own work

Consequences for Plagiarism:

• • First offense is a teachable moment. Student will receive a one grade reduction and must rewrite the paper/portions that were plagiarized for the first offense. Teachers will ensure that students are taught and understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it in their writing. For second and subsequent offenses the student will receive a zero grade on the assignment.

  • Teacher will contact student’s parents if the student receives a zero and the teacher may submit a written referral to administration for disciplinary action.

Cheating includes:

Homework/Projects/Miscellaneous assignments

• • Submitting work obtained or copied from another student or obtained from a teacher without permission

  • Allowing another student to copy or obtain work

Exams, Quizzes or Tests

• • Looking at another student’s test, answers or materials

  • Copying another student’s answers

  • Talking or exchanging materials during the test period

  • Accessing, deleting, modifying, transferring, receiving computerized files without authorization from the teacher. This includes tampering with grades and attendance

  • Using cellular phone technology or any mechanism with camera capabilities to photograph and/or quickly e-mail copies of tests, projects or homework assignments without authorization from the teacher 

Consequences for Cheating:

• • The student will receive a zero grade on the assignment, project, quiz or test with no makeup offered in conjunction with an administrative meeting

  • Teacher will contact student’s parents if the student receives a zero

  • Teacher may submit a written referral to administration for disciplinary action

  • A parent conference may be necessary.