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  • Course Information

    English 12 Q2

    “To be or not to be?” Is it the “best of times” or the “worst of times”? Explore these famous questions and more in English 12. This course focuses on British literature in all of its genres: drama, poetry, the novel, short story, and nonfiction literary and informational texts. Students will also apply timeless conversations to our modern world through scholarly research and writing about current issues. Critical reading, analysis, writing, and speaking will cover the core curriculum requirements. In addition to mastering the standard core, our students will employ the latest technological tools to communicate and collaborate, and create professional, creative projects. Emphasis will be placed on skills that will be critical to a successful transition to college and beyond.


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    • English 12 Q2 Moodle Course File

  • Week 1

    • Introduction to Quarter 2 and A Tale of Two Cities

    • GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS
    • WATCH: Introduction to A Tale of Two Cities URL

    • Charles Dickens and Historical Background of A Tale of Two Cities

    • WATCH: Biography of Charles Dickens Page
    • READ: "Meet Charles Dickens" Page
    • WATCH: French Revolution Clip Page
    • WATCH: Marie Antoinette Page

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1: Chapter 1

    • WATCH: It was the best of times presentation URL
    • COMPLETE: A Tale of Two Cities Reading Log Page

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1, Chapter 2

    • CaPiTaliZatiOn

    • WATCH: Capitalization Instruction Page
    • PRINT: Capitalization Handout Page
    • PRACTICE: Capitalization Page

  • Week 2

    • Foreshadowing, Personification, and Description
      "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage is no one is thinking of firing it"
      -Anton Chekov quote about foreshadowing

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      Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham; text by PVA and George P. Landow.
      http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/2cities/3.1.html

    • Tale of two cities: Book 1, Chapter 3

    • WATCH: Introduction to Book 1, Chp. 3-4 URL
    • WATCH: Figurative Language Page
    • READ: Summary of Chapter 3 Page

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1, Chapter 4

    • VIEW: Dover to Calais Page

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1, Chapter 5

    • WATCH: Foreshadowing and Personification URL

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 1, Chapter 6

    • READ: Analysis of Book 1, Chapters 5-6 Page

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Weeks 1-2, Book 1, Chapters 1-6

  • Week 3

    • Serious Talk About Humor: Parody and Satire



       The Likeness by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne). Illustration to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Book II, Chapter 3. All the Year Round (July, 85); issued 4 June.

    • Journal and Introductory Material

    • A Tale of Two Cities: Book 2, Chapters 1-4. Read and Check Your Understanding

    • Parody Presentation and Discussion 

    • WATCH: Parody Presentation URL
    • WATCH: SNL Parody Page
    • READ: Analysis of Parody in A Tale of Two Cities Page

    • Satire and "A Modest Proposal" 

    • WATCH: Intro to A Modest Proposal Page
    • READ: "A Modest Proposal" URL

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Week 3 Quiz

  • Week 4

    Characterization and Setting



    Ronald Coleman as Sydney Carton from in the 1935 film adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities

    • Introduction

    • Book 2, Chapters 5-8


    • Characterization

    • WATCH: Static and Dynamic Characters URL
    • VIEW AND LISTEN: Sydney Carton Page

    • Setting

    • READ: Setting of Tale of Two Cities URL
    • WATCH: Marie Antoinette Video Clip Page

    • Demonstrate your Understanding

  • Week 5

    • Symbol, Allusion, and Argumentation
    • "A stony business altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and stone flowers, and stone faces of men, and stone heads of lions, in all directions. As if the Gorgon's head had surveyed it, when it was finished, two centuries ago" (119).

    • Presentation: Cinquain and Haiku

    • Before you Read

    • WATCH: Improving Paragraph Writing--Student Examples Page
    • QUESTIONNAIRE: Improving Paragraph Writing Page
    • WATCH and READ: "The Gorgon's Head" Page

    • Check Your Understanding

    • Argumentation

    • WATCH: Arguments: Claims, Reasons, Evidence URL

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Quiz and Reading Log

  • Week 6

    • Tableau, Tone, and Mood
    • Tropenmuseum of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

    • Introduction

    • Check Your Understanding Chapters 13-16

    • Tableau

    • READ and WATCH: Tableau Book

    • Tone and Mood

    • WATCH: Mary Poppins Tone and Mood Page
    • WATCH: "Drink With Me" Les Miserables Page

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Book 2, Chapters 13-16

    • Apostrophes

    • WATCH: Apostrophes Instruction URL
    • PRACTICE: Apostrophe Practice Quiz Page
    • MORE PRACTICE: Apostrophe Practice Quiz Page

  • Week 7

    • Intro to Critical Theory, Freud, and Psychoanalysis

    • Introduction

    • Check Your Understanding: Book 2, Chapters 17-20

    • Intro to Critical Theory, Freud, and Psychoanalysis

    • READ and WATCH: Intro to Critical Theory, Freud, and Psychoanalysis Book
    • SURVEY: What Lenses are you Wearing? Page

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Book 2, Chapters 17-20

  • Week 8

    • Exploring Fictional vs. Nonfictional Points of View



      September Massacres--French Revolution
      Hulton Archive--Getty Images

    • Introduction

    • Paragraph Revision Video and Assignment

    • WATCH: Paragraph Revision Video Page

    • Before you Read

    • BEFORE YOU READ: Chapter 24: "Loadstone Rock" Page

    • Check Your Understanding

    • Comparing Non-Fiction to Fiction

    • Demonstrate Your Understanding: Chapters 21-24 Quiz

    • Submit Reading Log

  • Week 9

    • A Tale of Two Cities Final Essay 


      The storming of the Bastille. Painting by Jean-Pierre Houël, 1789. Public domain.

    • Introduction

    • Choose Essay Topic and Prewrite

    • ESSAY: Complete Steps 1 and 2 Page
    • REVIEW: Writing Rubric URL

    • Clustering/Mind-Mapping, Thesis Statement, Topic Sentences

    • ESSAY: Complete Steps 3 and 4 Page

    • Drafting, Self-Evaluation, Paperrater.com

    • Revision, Peer Editing, More Revision

  • Week 10

    • Final Essay and Exam

      final exam
    • STUDY: Final Exam Study Guide Page