Perryton High School

Ranger Pride Never Dies!

To be able to get caught up into the world of thought—that is educated.

-Edith Hamilton

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The basic rules for success in my class include:

             º Come to class prepared to learn every day!

             º Be respectful of others needs and ideas in class.

             º Bring all of your supplies with you when you  come to class!

             º Be responsible for your own learning and    products.

Supplies needed daily in class:

             º Notebook paper, pen/pencil, spiral for notes

             º Literature textbook

             º AR book and Reading log

What we’re studying each 6 weeks in English IV:

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-AP English I students follow an intensive course of study in reading, analysis, and writing in preparation for college level courses. Students will learn literary devices and techniques used in close reading, apply critical discussion, and will employ the TP-CASTT analysis system in poetry explication. Independent Reading Projects are required from the College Bound reading list every six weeks as a test grade. Coursework in this class reflects assignments normally attempted in junior and senior level English classes and is both challenging and rigorous.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucious

º 1^st 6weeks: Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Period, Beowulf, The Seafarer, Writing  practice      

º 2^nd 6 weeks: Introduction to the Medieval Period,The Canterbury Tales,  Character Sketch

º 3^rd 6 weeks: The Research Process,  Writing a Research Paper       

º 4^th 6 weeks: Introduction to the Renaissance, William Shakespeare &  The Tragedy of Macbeth

○5^th 6 weeks: Introduction to sonnet sequence, sonnet styles, and meter; analysis of Shakespearean, Petrarchan, and Spenserian sonnets, Metaphysical poetry &John Donne

○ 6^th 6 weeks: Carpe Diem poetry, Robert Herrick and Robert Marvell, Introduction to the Restoration Period,Satire and Irony, Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal & Gulliver’s Travels.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

          -Ronald Reagan