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High School English IV for Credit Recovery

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Suggested Prerequisites

English 4

Description

This course covers reading literature, reading informational text, applying language skills, writing (informational, narrative, and argument), researching and presenting strategies, and speaking and listening skills. Students will be exposed to literature on a deeper level, spending more time with one text and writing to that text. Students must combine a previous attempt of English 4 with a passing score in this course to receive credit for high school graduation.

Module One:

-Heroes and monsters in Macbeth

-Reading strategies

-Characterization

-Plot development and conflict

-Theme

-Sentence structure

-Word choice

-Narrative writing techniques


Module Two:

-Writing style and word choice

-Sentence fluency

-Grammar, punctuation, and use of clauses

-Reading strategies, including Supreme ----Court Cases and foundational documents

-Research and vetting of sources

-Informational article outline

-Informational writing structure: big ideas to supporting details

-In-text citations

-Thesis statement

-Informational writing techniques



Module 3:

-Experiencing and analyzing poetry

-Poetic forms and devices, including figurative language and figures of speech

-Writing poetry

-Reading and analyzing informational text

-Identifying and understanding different perspectives

-Summarizing 


Module Four:

-Argument analysis

-Claim, counterclaim, rebuttal

-Writing to an audience

-Rhetorical appeals— logos, pathos, ethos

-Context Clues

-Tone

-Research skills

-Visual argumentation

-Gathering supporting evidence

-Argument outline

-Argumentation writing techniques