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English III Online

English III continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students’ understanding.

Reading reinforces reading comprehension skills by teaching students comprehension techniques for literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Writing develops students’ writing skills by teaching about clauses and phrases in sentence structures; reviews common sentence construction errors and methods for avoiding them; provides practice in standard and nonstandard English, as well as specialized language use; teaches Greek and Latin roots and prefixes to enhance vocabulary and spelling skills.

 

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English III Online Academic Library

 

UNIT -1 LEARNING AND USING STANDARD ENGLISH

  1. Course Overview
  2. Acquiring a Language
  3. Essay: Natural Language and Standard English 
  4. Levels of Usage
  5. Essay: Levels of Standard English Quiz 1: Why Standard English?
  6. Making a Dictionary
  7. Anatomy of a Dictionary
  8. Project: Dictionary Comparison 
  9. Quiz 2: Dictionaries: Guardians of the Standard
  10. Types of Written Standard English
  11. Technical Texts
  12. Informational Texts
  13. Literary Texts
  14. Essay: Writing Across Standard English  
  15. Quiz 3: Varieties of Written Standard English
  16. Documentation
  17. Works Cited
  18. Parenthetical Citation
  19. Documentation Review
  20. Test: Learning and Using Standard English
  21. Alternate Test: Learning and Using Standard English
  22. Reference

UNIT 2 – SENTENCE ELEMENTS

  1. Clauses
  2. Adverb Clauses and Adjective Clauses
  3. Noun Clauses
  4. Project: Writing Subordinate Clauses
  5. Quiz 1: Clauses
  6. Verbals: Gerunds
  7. Verbals: Participles
  8. Project: Writing with Verbals
  9. Verbals: Infinitives
  10. Combining Verbals
  11. Appositives
  12. Project: Verbals and Appositives
  13. Quiz 2: Verbals and Appositives
  14. Test: Sentence Elements
  15. Alternate Test: Sentence Elements
  16. Reference

UNIT 3 – CLEAR CONNECTIONS: A WRITING WORKSHOP

  1. Nouns and Pronouns
  2. Jobs Personal Pronouns Do
  3. Other Types of Pronouns
  4. Quiz 1: Understanding Pronouns
  5. Pronoun Case (Part 1)
  6. Pronoun Case (Part 2)
  7. Pronoun Reference
  8. Pronoun Agreement
  9. Quiz 2: Using Pronouns
  10. Using Modifiers Correctly
  11. Using Parallel Structure
  12. Essay: Clear Connections in Action  
  13. Quiz 3: Writing Strong Sentences
  14. Test: Sentence Workshop
  15. Alternate Test: Sentence Workshop
  16. Reference

UNIT 4 – MEANING AND MAIN IDEAS

  1. Greek Prefixes
  2. Latin Prefixes
  3. Greek Roots
  4. Latin Roots
  5. Project: Latin Roots 
  6. Quiz 1: Prefixes and Roots
  7. Context Clues
  8. Project: Using Context Clues  
  9. Diacritical Marking
  10. Quiz 2: Word Meanings and Pronunciation
  11. Finding the Main Idea
  12. Quiz 3: Main Ideas
  13. Analyzing a Textbook
  14. Essay: Outline and Essay  
  15. Quiz 4: Analyzing a Textbook
  16. Test: Meaning and Main Ideas
  17. Alternate Test: Meaning and Main Ideas
  18. Reference

UNIT 5 – POETRY

  1. Measurement in Poetry
  2. Essay: Response to ANNABEL LEE  
  3. Meter and Metrical Sets
  4. Musical Effects: Rhyme
  5. Other Musical Effects
  6. Form in Poetry
  7. Essay: Narrative and Lyric Poetry 
  8. Quiz 1: Structure of Poetry
  9. Universality and the Experience of Faith
  10. The Experience of Faith (cont.)
  11. Project: Prose Paraphrase 
  12. The Experience of Love
  13. Quiz 2: Poetic Themes
  14. Imagery and Connotation
  15. Essay: Writing a Poem 
  16. Quiz 3: Imagery and Connotation
  17. Test: Poetry
  18. Alternate Test: Poetry
  19. Reference

UNIT 6 – NONFICTION

  1. Elements of Nonfiction
  2. Exposition
  3. Description
  4. Essay: Descriptive Essay 
  5. Quiz 1: Elements of Nonfiction
  6. Essays and Sermons
  7. Diaries, Journals, and Letters
  8. Biography and Autobiography
  9. Periodicals
  10. Quiz 2: Types of Nonfiction
  11. Nonfiction Topics for Reading
  12. Other Nonfiction Topics for Reading
  13. Approaches to Nonfiction
  14. Project: Outline 
  15. Essay: Illustrative Composition 
  16. Quiz 3: Nonfiction Topics
  17. Test: Nonfiction
  18. Alternate Test: Nonfiction
  19. Reference

UNIT 7 – AMERICAN DRAMA

  1. The Development of Drama
  2. Drama in America
  3. Quiz 1: The Development of Drama
  4. The Art of Drama
  5. The Structure and Reading of a Play
  6. Quiz 2: The Art of Drama
  7. Wilder’s OUR TOWN
  8. OUR TOWN: Act I
  9. OUR TOWN: Act II
  10. Essay: My Town  
  11. OUR TOWN: Act III
  12. Essay: Critical Essay – OUR TOWN 
  13. Quiz 3: Our Town
  14. Test: American Drama
  15. Alternate Test: American Drama
  16. Reference

UNIT 8 – THE AMERICAN NOVEL

  1. The American Novel
  2. Cooper and Hawthorne
  3. Essay: Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4. Nineteenth Century Novelists
  5. Twentieth Century Novelists
  6. Quiz 1: Survey of American Novels
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird-Introduction
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird 6-11
  9. Essay: Character Description 
  10. Quiz 2: To Kill a Mockingbird
  11. To Kill a Mockingbird 12-15
  12. To Kill a Mockingbird 16-19
  13. To Kill a Mockingbird 20-25
  14. To Kill a Mockingbird 26-31
  15. The Critical Essay
  16. Writing the Critical Essay
  17. Project: Preparing an Interpretive Essay  
  18. Essay: Interpretive Essay 
  19. Quiz 3: To Kill a Mockingbird
  20. Test: The American Novel
  21. Alternate Test: The American Novel
  22. Reference

​UNIT 9 – RESEARCH

  1. The Investigative Process
  2. Choosing Your Subject
  3. Quiz 1: The Investigative Process
  4. Locating Sources and Taking Notes
  5. Formulating a Thesis
  6. Thesis Statement
  7. Quiz 2: Gathering Information
  8. Keeping it Relevant
  9. Revised Thesis
  10. Outlining the Paper
  11. Project: Outline 
  12. Using Sources and Transitions
  13. Writing and Revising
  14. Essay: Research Paper 
  15. Quiz 3: The Composition
  16. Test: Research
  17. Alternate Test: Research
  18. Reference

UNIT 10 – REVIEW

  1. Context Clues and Word Parts
  2. Dictionary Skills
  3. Quiz 1: Analyzing Written Words
  4. Clauses and Sentence Types
  5. Phrases
  6. Avoiding Sentence Errors
  7. Quiz 2: Writing Effective Sentences
  8. Writing Expository Prose
  9. Essay: Expository Essay
  10. Research Papers
  11. Critical Analysis
  12. Quiz 3: Expository Prose
  13. American Drama
  14. Elements of Poetry
  15. American Poetry
  16. Early American Novels
  17. 20th Century Novels
  18. Nonfiction
  19. Quiz 4: American Literature
  20. Test: Review
  21. Alternate Test: Review