100 10030
120 English I (ACP/SCP/GEN) 111, 112, 113
130 Reading
140 Throughout Semester
150 9
160 
170 4
180 
210 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
211 1.9.1
212 1.9.2
213 1.9.3
214 1.9.4
215 1.9.5
216 1.9.6
220 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
221 2.9.1
222 2.9.2
223 2.9.4
224 2.9.5
225 2.9.6
226 2.9.7
230 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
231 3.9.1
232 3.9.3
233 3.9.4
234 3.9.5
235 4.9.1
236 4.9.2
240 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter
241 1.9.1
242 1.9.2
243 1.9.3
244 1.9.4
245 2.9.1
246 2.9.2
250 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter
251 3.9.1
252 3.9.2
253 3.9.3
254 4.9.1
255 4.9.2
256 4.9.4
300 
300 What skills and strategies are necessary for active reading?
300 What is good literature?
300 What effective devices, techniques, and organizational structures do authors use to communicate their ideas?
300 How does literature connect to the real world?
400 
400 Freshman English is concerned with the fundamental understanding and appreciation of literature, the improvement of oral and written expression, and the development of effective reading, research, vocabulary, critical viewing skills, listening skills, and study skills.
400 
400 Writing instruction focuses upon the process of writing as a function of purpose, genre, and audience.  Writing experiences may include directed journal entries, paragraph-length (or longer) responses to questions based upon assigned readings, personal narratives, descriptions of personas and places, arguments, book reports, creative writing, and letters.  Class instruction in sentence and paragraph construction, mechanics and usage, and vocabulary and spelling is given as student needs become apparent.  Reading instruction and class-directed discussion assist student comprehension of high-interest novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and assorted nonfiction.  Speaking experiences include speeches, presentation, and/or debates.  Emphasis is placed on cultivating appropriate classroom behaviors, organizational and study skills, and generally making the transition from middle school to high school.
400 
400 Course topics include works by selected American and world authors, current affairs as reported in newspapers and news magazines, and language arts skills on an as-needed basis.
500 
500 Students in Freshman English will develop the ability to:
500 -- Use word attack skills and context clues to decode unfamiliar words while reading,
500 -- Use strategic reading skills and context clues to decode unfamiliar words while reading,
500 -- Understand and use the text structure and organization,
500 -- Use the process of reading, including prereading, questioning, prediction, to enhance comprehension,
500 -- Recall details of plot, characters and setting from text,
500 -- Draw conclusions based on text,
500 -- Support stated theme with details drawn from text,
500 -- Support analysis with details drawn from text,
500 -- Make connections to life outside the text,
500 -- Think critically about the text through application of themes to life today and identification with characters,
500 -- Recognize various literary devices used in literature, and understand their function in literature,
500 -- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate literary terminology through discourse and writing,
500 -- Recognize and articulate the author's purpose and intended audience,
500 -- Identify the author's perspective and bias and relate them to one's own interpretation,
500 -- Recognize the historical and cultural context in which a piece of literature is written, understanding the relationship between context and content.     
600 
600 All students will:
600 -- read materials from the Core Selections,
600 -- have the opportunity to respond to reading materials in both orally and written formats,
600 -- be instructed in the vocabulary necessary for reading comprehension of various materials,
600 -- be instructed in the literary terms, devices, and structures necessary for reading comprehension of various materials,
600 -- be guided in the reading skills of making predictions, making inferences, drawing conclusions, making connections, recognizing author's purpose, identifying author's bias, and historical and cultural contexts.
700 
700 Assessment of reading skills will include such activities as oral and interpretative readings, literature circles, discussion circles, Socratic seminars, oral and written responses to assigned readings, and student- and teacher-generated questioning and discussion.  
820 
820 Core Selections:
820 Various short stories from the Characters in Conflict anthology
820 To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
820 Romeo & Juliet, or Macbeth, or A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
820 Night (Elie Wiesel)
820 Selected poetry and lyrics
820 Selected essays and articles
820 
820 Supplemental Selections Include:
820 Various short stories from the Multicultural Perspectives anthology
820 West Side Story (Irving Shulman)
820 Eight Plus One (Robert Cormier)
820 15 American One-Act Plays
820 Light in the Forest (Conrad Richter)
820 A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
820 A Night to Remember (Walter Lord and Nathaniel Philbrick) 
820 Our Town (Thorton Wilder)
820 O Pioneers (Willa Cather)
820 A Child Called It (Dave Peltzer)
820 The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
820 Blackwater (Eve Bunting)
820 Big Mouth, Ugly Girl (Joyce Carol Oates)
820 Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
820 The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
820 Whirligigs (Paul Fleischman)
820 Various excerpts from Read Magazine
840 
840 Literary Terms for Freshman English
840 
840 Core Terms:  Antagonist, Alliteration, Allusion, Character, Characterization, Climax, Conflict, Dialogue, Dynamic Character, Foreshadowing, Flashback, Flat Character, Imagery, Narrator, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Plot, Point of view, Protagonist, Round Character, Rhyme, Rhyme scheme, Setting, Simile, Sonnet, Stanza, Static Character, Symbolism, Theme
840 
840 Extension Terms:  Allegory, Ambiguity, Assonance, Blank Verse, Connotation, Consonance, Denotation, Diction, Hyperbole, Interior Monologue, Irony, Meter, Mood, Motif, Paradox, Persona, Rhetoric, Satire, Stream of Consciousness, Style, Syntax, Tone
840