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English 3 Semester 2
Course Cost: $270.00
Credit: .5Course Materials:
No textbook required. However, students will need the paperback book listed below.
1. The Jungle; ISBN 1-59308-008-5
Course Description:
The second semester of English 3 offers students a wide sampling of American voices from the modern period in America’s history. Students will read poetry, songs, short fiction, novel excerpts, and expository pieces. In addition, students will view a film critically and synthesize a research-based writing project. In addition to a short unit on academic integrity and a unit on writing skills, students will explore three units: Voices of Regionalism, Voices of Justice, and Voices of Change. In each unit, students will be provided opportunities to demonstrate skills related to research, writing for various purposes and audiences, critical reading strategies, response to literature, the writing process, and revising and editing.English 3 Core Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
--Comprehend selections using a variety of strategies.
--Analyze text structures such as compare/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order.
--Draw inferences, conclusions and generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience.
--Interpret the possible influences of history on literary texts.
--Compare and contrast aspects of text such as themes, conflicts, allusions, and author’s purpose both within and across texts.
--Read critically to evaluate texts and authority of sources.
--Read for a variety of purposes.
--Expand vocabulary through reading, writing, and systematic word study.
--Write in appropriate voice for specific audiences and purposes.
--Write in a variety of forms using recursive writing processes.
--Locate, compile, and cite information from primary and secondary sources.
--Demonstrate control over grammatical elements by producing increasingly complex sentences free from errors.Course Activities
Research activities, writing assignments for specific purposes, vocabulary activities, self-checks, quizzes over the readings (including multiple-choice and short answer), TAKS-style short answer responses, revising and editing practices, viewing and representing activities
