Course Description

This sophomore-year English course invites students to explore a diverse selection of world literature organized into thematic units. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students learn essential reading comprehension strategies and engage in literary analysis and evaluation of both classic and contemporary works. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are activities that encourage students to strengthen their listening and speaking skills and produce clear, coherent writing. Throughout the course, students read a range of classic and contemporary literary texts including William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. In addition to reading a wide range of literary texts, students read and analyze complex informational and argumentative texts including Sonia Sotomayor’s "A Latina Judge's Voice," Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, and the contemporary informational text Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science.

Guided Notes

Semester 1

Semester 2

Project Documents

For the projects that have Google Doc Templates, you will be asked to make a copy when you open that file. After completing the assignment, you will do a File->download as Microsoft (docx, xlsx, pptx) product so that you can upload it into your Edgenuity assignment. If you need help with this process, on the Edgenuity Page of this website there is a short video of the process.

Group Discussion

Informative Presentation

Media Coverage

Multimedia Presentation

Propaganda Poster