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UMHS English IV

1.0 Carnegie Unit 

Instructor: Mrs. Tabitha Dillard
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Instructor Information:

I am Mrs.Tabitha Dillard, and I will be your online instructor for this course. In addition, I teach high school English at Ingomar Attendance Center in New Albany, MS, where I have been for 11 years. I have a total of 16 years teaching experience.

I have a Master of Education Degree in English from the University of Mississippi. I also have a Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership. I have been happily married for 20 years and have two children: Lindsey and Josh.

Contact me with any questions or concerns you might have at tcdilla1@olemiss.edu. I look forward to working with you.

Contact Information:

If you have questions concerning the content of the course, you may contact the instructor directly using the email link in the "Communications & Tools" tab. NOTE: Whenever sending email, please be sure to indicate your course name in the subject line (ie, English 4).

For lesson or test administration issues, please contact the HS department:

The University of Mississippi High School
P. O. Box 7959
University, MS 38677-0729

Phone: 662-915-1296
Fax: (662) 915-5138
E-mail: UMHS@olemiss.edu

Course Description:

Twelfth Grade Language Arts is designed to incorporate grammar, reading, writing, listening, and viewing into the study of literature and language usage. Areas to be emphasized are basic research, skills in critical thinking, oral and written communication, grammar and mechanics through various writing experiences and reading various literary forms and styles.

Student response should show progression from concrete to abstract thinking. This curriculum is designed to promote an appreciation of language and literature.
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Required Textbook:

Glencoe Literature; British Literature.

2002 by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. ISBN# 0-07-825111-7

Recommended Materials:

You will need to look up words you do not know, so you should have some type of dictionary.

It is the student's responsibility to order his or her textbook. Online textbook retailers such as Amazon.com, ABEbooks.com, or Half.com usually provide used textbooks at economical prices.

You must make sure you are ordering the exact book required in this syllabus.

Course Outline: This course consists of 7 instructional units.
Units
Areas
Subjects
Assignments
Start Here Syllabus and Orientation folder NOTE: Once you complete the syllabus and orientation quiz, the rest of the lessons will become available to you.
Syllabus quiz, Introduce Yourself discussion board, Course pre-test
1
 Medieval Literature Grammar 1, Beowulf, "The Seafarer," the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Ballads, Chaucer, Sir Gawain, Everyman, Resumes
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments
Exam 1 Proctored exam covering Unit 1
To be scheduled and completed before continuing
2

The English Renaissance

 Grammar 2, Sonnets, Shakespeare, Metaphysical Poets, Ben Johnson, Puritans, Personal Statements
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments

Exam 2

 Proctored exam covering Unit 2 To be scheduled and completed before continuing
3
 The Restoration and the 18th century Grammar 3, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Addison & Steele, Pepys, Defoe, Gray, Samuel Johnson, Boswell
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments

Exam 3

 Proctored exam covering Unit 3 To be scheduled and completed before continuing
4

The Romantic Period

 Grammar 4, Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments
Exam 4 Proctored exam covering Unit 4
To be scheduled and completed before continuing
Paper Research paper
Submit topic, thesis, bibliography, citations, final draft, final paper
5
 The Victorian Age Grammar 5, Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Arnold, the Rosettis, Hardy, Kipling
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments
Exam 5 Proctored exam covering Unit 5
To be scheduled and completed before continuing
6
 The Twentieth Century, Part I Grammar 6, Shaw, Poetry of the Great War, Conrad, Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Joyce, Eliot, Wolff, Mansfield
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments
Exam 6 Proctored exam covering Unit 6
To be scheduled and completed before continuing
7
 The Twentieth Century, Part II Auden, World War II Poets, Dylan Thomas, Lessing, Gordimer, Achebe, Walcott, Naipul, Soyinka, Heaney and Hughes
Self checks, evaluations, journal entries, writing assignments
Exam 7 Proctored exam covering of Unit 7
To be scheduled and completed before continuing
Final Exam NOTE: Be sure to complete ALL unfinished assignments before you take this test! Any assignments not completed before the final is taken will receive a grade of zero.
Course Post-test, Final Exam
Must be scheduled and completed before receiving your final grade

Grading Scale:

93 - 100% = A
85 - 92% = B
75 - 84% = C
70 - 74% = D
Below 69% = F

The grading format is as follows:

Minor Grades: 50%

Grammar Self Checks
Reading Self Checks
Self Checks
Vocabulary Self Checks
Journals
Evaluations

Major Grades: 30%

Writing Assignments
Proctored Unit Exams

Final Exam: 20%