Hale Center ISD

ENGLISH II COURSE SYLLABUS

First Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Outsiders and Outcasts

Primary Fiction:  The Censors, and Harrison Bergeron

Primary Nonfiction:  Selected Articles

Primary Grammar:  Nouns/Verbs

Primary Writing Lesson:  Argumentative Writing Lesson Level I

Performance Based Assessment:  Argumentative Essay

Second Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Inside the Nightmare

Primary Fiction:  House Taken Over, Where is Here?, and The Feather Pillow

Primary Nonfiction:  Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear? And Sleep Paralysis:  A Waking

Nightmare

Primary Media:  How to Tell You’re Reading a Gothic Novel in Pictures

Primary Grammar:  Parts of a Sentence/Phrases

Primary Writing Lesson:  Informative Explanatory Writing Level I

Performance Based Assessment:  Expository Essay

Third Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Family Relationships

STAAR Benchmark

STAAR Practice both reading a writing

Primary Fiction:  A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Primary Media:  Movie over the play

Primary Nonfiction:  Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Primary Grammar:  Clauses:  Independent and Subordinate; Sentence Structure

Primary Writing Lesson:  Expository/Argumentative Writing Lessons Level II

Performance Based Assessment:  Argumentative Essays (preparing for STAAR)

Fourth Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Dystopian Society

Primary Fiction:  Animal Farm

Group Activities:  Socratic Seminars over aspects of Animal Farm

Other Fiction:  The Necklace and Civil Peace (time permitting)

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over Animal Farm