Materials & Resources
- Ontario High School Reader second 1/3 rd
- Osgood's Fifth Reader (speech and selections for speech and reading).
- Baldwin's Eigth Reader
- Free Reading 45 Minutes a day from reading list
- English Literature
- American literary heritage
- Literature Reading report form
- Higher Lessons in English Text third/ third Text 9-12 grades
- Word Lessons A Complete Speller Lessons 246-289 or any spelling that needs review
- Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools
Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists - Free reading below (use form) this does not mean you you don't have to read these, just that you have free choice in what you choose to read of these selections, try to read them all by the end of the school year. Use the form to organize your thoughts. Review Genre before doing Free Reading.
Topics to be covered this year
- Literary Terms
- Cross-cultural literature (on Menu Bar)
- Folklore (you might like to look at a few examples)
- Ballads
- Regional customs, traditions, folkways, and language
- Literary interpretation and critique
- Novel, short story, and essay
- Understanding poetry: lyric poetry (definition, examples), and the sonnet
- Drama, Drama, History of Drama
- Distinguishing between fact and opinion (practice quiz)
- Persuasion (or alternative lesson) and argumentation (useful: logic)
- Listening skills
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Extending dictionary skills
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Vocabulary and etymology
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Geographical dialects
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Writing short stories, poetry, and plays
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Writing term papers
Additional Topics if Time permits
Extras
Reading
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Les Miserables
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Iliad
- Odyssey Study Guide Games
- Faust
- Far to Seek
- Scotch Proverbs
- The Bible as English Literature (large file)
Extras