English 12 B - World Literature Modern Fiction
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In this course, students will examine several major works of modern fiction. The course is designed as the second semester of a year long course and is set up in five units that are theme oriented. Each unit contains poetry, short stories, and a major novel that revolve around the theme for the unit. Each unit also contains a major project and some other forms of both formative and summative assessments. There are several essays throughout the course, a journal that is used, and a course portfolio to keep items not contained in the grade book. There is also a major research project contained in the course. The course is set up to foster an open and interactive environment between the student and the instructor. There are several wikis and discussion boards set up throughout the course to ensure that students have the opportunity to ask questions, receive help and discuss important topics in the course.
Enduring Understanding
The student will understand:
- Can explain-literature, informational texts, own writing
- Can interpret-literature, own writing, informational and fictional texts
- Can apply-concepts in literature to own writing and project work
- Has perspective-has a credible perspective on world and other literature. Can reflect and discuss perspective in own writing.
- Can empathize-with others, individuals, communities, and cultures. Can express this empathy in speaking and writing.
- Has self-knowledge-gained through research, reading, and writing; can express this in project work and in reflection and exposition.
Essential Questions
- How can we use literature to help us live in the modern world where we are constantly separated by cultural differences but also united by our common humanity?
- How can we use writing to help us develop critical thinking skills to live in a local, national, and global world?
- How can student use writing to develop critical thinking skills?
- How can students use reading and writing to interpret texts?
- How can we learn to read the ideas of others and listen to the words of others understand what the author or speaker is trying to convey?
- How can we study history, our own and that of the world, and respond in writing and creating to understand that history?
- How do increasing globalization and accelerating technological change affect us?
- As readers, writers, speakers, thinkers, and listeners, how do we work together in a mutually satisfying and productive way?
- What is the role of the individual in a community--local and/or global?
Additional Resources Needed
Novels
The following books will be needed in order to complete the course. You will be able to find any of these books at your local library. If your library does not have one of these books, they can all be easily attained through an inter-library loan which can be done at no cost to you either through the school library or your local library. The books you will need are:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
Technology Needs
Adobe Reader
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Shockwave Player
Quicktime
Java
Media Player
Other Resources
A computer with internet access, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Power Point.
A microphone or headset that enables you to submit audio files and participate in other audio based activities in the course.
Basic school supplies.
A digital camera and/or video camera are not absolutely necessary, but are highly recommended.
Content Topics
Unit 1
Literature of North America
Unit 2
Literature of South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean
Unit 3
Literature of Europe
Unit 4
Literature of Asia, Australia, and Oceana
Unit 5
Literature of Asia and the Middle East
Key Skills
- Make inferences, draw conclusions, and make generalizations based on text.
- Identify and explain main ideas and relevant details from text.
- Identify, describe, and analyze genre of text.
- Make connections between texts.
- Understand literary devices in fictinal and non-fictional texts.
- Understand concepts and organiztion of nonfictional text.
- Demonstrate competence in the writing process in responding to and creating new texts.
Assessments
- Research Projects
- Writing Projects
- Essays
- Multigenre Research
- Multigenre Fiction Book
- Review
- Reflection
- Journals
- World Writers Notebook
- Vocabulary projects
- Memoir
- Poetry
- Power Point Presentation
- Projects
- Research
- Blogs
- Discussion Boards Wimba Classroom
Standards Alignment:
The National Council of Teachers of English
2. Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions of human experience.
3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their work identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features.
5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
8. Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.
12. Students use spoken, written, and visual lang
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