English
IV Honors Curriculum
Anglo-Saxons, Middle-Ages, Renaissance,
Restoration, Romantics, Victorian Age, Twentieth
Century
First
semester
Anglo-Saxons,
Middle-Ages, Renaissance, Restoration, Romantics, Victorian, Twentieth
Century
The Alchemist/The Kite
Runner-summer reading test/writing response**
Grammar
presentations
Narrative
essay- autobiography**
College essay**
Beowulf/test
Beowulf literary analysis essay**
Chaucer’s The
Canterbury Tales compare/contrast essay**
Macbetb/tests
Macbeth-literary analysis essay**
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet**
Movies:
Macbeth—literary analysis essay*
*Writing assignments
Second semester
Romantic poets/test
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner/test
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner-literary
analysis essay**
Sherlock Holmes- presentation/review**
James Joyce’s Dubliners
Dubliners-literary analysis**
Irish
literature-Heaney/Yeats/O’Connor
Trench Poets-Sassoon/Owen/Brooke
20th
Century poets-Thomas/Auden/Eliot
Short stories-
Lawrence/Woolf/Orwell/Bowen/Gordimer/Camus
Career
research paper**/presentation
Senior Memory
Book**
Senior English
Literary Thesis**
Movies: Sherlock
Holmes Biography, Hound of the
Baskervilles, James Joyce biography,
The Dead
*Writing assignments
*Graphics
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