2015-2016 Syllabus

English12 Regents
Unit I: Structure and Development: The
Personal Response
9/14 10/2
Works:
Steve Jobs Commencement
Speech to Stanford University
Summative Assessment:
Personal Response Essay on
Common Application topic of
choice
Skills Concentrations:

Structure

Guiding Idea

Incorporate evidence

Response to a theme
Unit II: Forming and Developing EvidenceBased Claims
10/5 10/16
Summative Assessment:
EBC Analysis of informational text
Skills Concentration:

Gathering text-based
evidence

Close reading

Using evidence to make

and support a claim
Unit III: Inference and Symbolism
10/19-11/13
Works:
The Old Man and the Sea
Summative Assessment:
TBA
Skills Concentrations:

Inference

Symbolism

Theme
Unit IV: Elements of Drama
11/16-12/22
Works:
A Streetcar Named Desire

Summative Assessment:
TBA
Skills Concentration:

Characterization

Color/imagery

Setting

Dramatic presentation

Conflict

Stage Direction nontextual/media symbolism

Unit V: Poetry: Language and Meaning
1/4-1/22
Works: Various poems of different
styles/eras
Skills Concentration:

Structure

Language

Poetry elements (simile,

metaphor, personification)

Rhythm

Rhyme

Dramatic Monologue
Formative: Dramatic Monologue dramatic
monologue table (evidence to speakers
motives)
Formative: Imagery (Image Map)
Formative: Elements (Simile, Metaphor,
Tone, Symbolism)
Summative Assessment: Poetry
Assessment Chart, incorporating student
choice in assessing skills
End of Semester I
There will be a Midterm for this course
Midterm: Provide two texts (one poem, one
excerpt from informational text or literary
fiction). Given a claim, students will use
the works to write a response to prove the
claim.
Unit VI: Research Methods
2/1-2/26

Works:
Engage NY Research Unit

Othello

Week 2: Conduct research, take

notes

Skills Concentrations:

Characterization

Structure

Motivation

Theme

Language (Shakespearean)

Week 3: Complete research,

outline, draft

Summative Assessment/Research
Component:

Week 1: Choosing a topic, research

methods, research plan

Week 4: Finish paper, proofread,

works cited
Summative Assessment/Research
Component:
Unit VII: Elements of Short Fiction
2/29-3/18
Works:
TBD
Skills Concentrations:

Style

Structure

Plot Structure

Theme

Characterization

Syntax/Diction

Unit VIII: Analyzing Motive and theme in

Literature
3/21-4/22
Work:

Unit IX: Research in Practice

5/2-5/27
Skills Concentrations:

Evidence-Based Claims

Research Skills

Structure of Argument

Presentation Skills

Web-based presentation
Review research skills
View Anonymous (4-5 days) stop and
review/have students complete
evidence/types of evidence sheet as they
watch
Review movie/evidence/claims
Begin research project

Unit X: Course Review

5/31-6/10
There will be a final exam for this
course