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ENGLISH IV ACADEMIC LIBRARY

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English IV Online

English IV 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, poetry, and drama, including discussion of common literary devices; shows students how to analyze, evaluate, and interpret a text; Writing–develops students’ writing skills by teaching about clauses and phrases in sentence structures; reviews common sentence and paragraph construction errors  and methods for avoiding them; teaches Greek and Latin roots and prefixes to enhance vocabulary and spelling skills. Students will continue their own writing throughout the course expanding their abilities with more comprehensive material.

 

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English IV Online

UNIT 1 – THE WORTH OF WORDS

  1. Course Overview
  2. Roots and Affixes
  3. Word Elements
  4. Jargon and Acronyms
  5. Quiz 1: Word Study
  6. Expository Writing
  7. Paragraph Structure
  8. Essay: Writing a Paragraph  
  9. Coherence and Consistency in Writing
  10. Mechanics
  11. Spelling
  12. Quiz 2: Expository Writing
  13. Sentence Structure
  14. Dangling Modifiers and Parallelism
  15. Errors in Reference, Agreement, and Logic
  16. Diction
  17. Essay: Writing a Longer Essay  
  18. Quiz 3: Sentence Structure
  19. Documentation
  20. Works Cited
  21. Parenthetical Citation
  22. Documentation Review
  23. Test: The Worth of Words
  24. Alternate Test: The Worth of Words
  25. Reference

UNIT 2 – THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE

  1. Nouns and Pronouns
  2. Verbs and Verb Phrases
  3. Other Parts of Speech
  4. Quiz 1: Parts of Speech
  5. The Structure of Sentences
  6. The Parts of the Sentence
  7. Project: Sentence Patterns  
  8. Quiz 2: Sentence Structure
  9. Methods of Subordination: Participles
  10. Gerunds and Infinitives
  11. Adverb and Adjective Clauses
  12. Noun Clauses
  13. Project: Variety in Writing 
  14. Quiz 3: Methods of Subordination
  15. Test: The Structure of Language
  16. Alternate Test: The Structure of Language
  17. Reference

UNIT 3 – READING AND RESEARCH

  1. Word Recognition: Drill One
  2. Identifying Main Ideas
  3. Word Recognition: Drill Two
  4. Opinions, Implications, and Inferences
  5. Essay: Using Details in Writing   
  6. Quiz 1: Reading for Comprehension
  7. Phrase Recognition: Drill Three
  8. Finding Information in the Library
  9. Word Meaning: Drill Four
  10. Finding Information on the Internet
  11. Phrase Recognition: Drill Five
  12. Taking Effective Notes
  13. Project: Writing a Paper from Notes  
  14. Quiz 2
  15. Test: Reading and Research
  16. Alternate Test: Reading and Research
  17. Reference

UNIT 4 – LANGUAGE, GOD’S GIFT TO MAN

  1. Origin of Language
  2. Quiz 1: Origin of Language
  3. Grammar
  4. Structural Grammar
  5. Generative Grammar
  6. Quiz 2: Grammar
  7. Semantics
  8. Project: Semantics and Advertising  
  9. Project: Levels of Usage and Meaning  
  10. Quiz 3: Semantics
  11. Test: Language
  12. Alternate Test: Language
  13. Reference

UNIT 5 – MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

  1. Early England
  2. Old English
  3. The Epic and Beowulf
  4. Elegies, Riddles, and Gnomes
  5. Essay: The Elegies 
  6. Quiz 1: Old English
  7. English Literature (1066-1400)
  8. Quiz 2: Early Middle English
  9. 14th Century Writers; Chaucer
  10. Chaucer’s Language
  11. Canterbury Tales
  12. Essay: Character Study 
  13. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
  14. Response to The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
  15. Quiz 3: Fourteenth Century Literature
  16. Test: Medieval English Literature
  17. Alternate Test: Medieval English Literature
  18. Reference

UNIT 6 – ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE

  1. Elizabethan Songs
  2. Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney
  3. Sonnets: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
  4. Translations and Prose
  5. Quiz 1: Elizabethan Poetry and Prose
  6. Elizabethan Drama
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Quiz 2: Elizabethan Drama
  9. Hamlet: Act I, i-ii
  10. Hamlet: Act I, iii-v
  11. Hamlet: Act II
  12. Hamlet: Act III
  13. Hamlet: Act IV
  14. Hamlet: Act V
  15. Quiz 3: Hamlet
  16. The Critical Essay
  17. Project: Preparing the Critical Essay  
  18. Essay: Writing the Critical Essay
  19. Quiz 4: The Critical Essay
  20. Test: Elizabethan Literature
  21. Alternate Test: Elizabethan Literature
  22. Reference

UNIT 7 – 17th– AND 18th-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

  1. The Historical Background of the Literature
  2. John Milton
  3. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
  4. Paradise Lost: Book I
  5. Paradise Lost: Book VII, Book XII
  6. John Bunyan
  7. Quiz 1: Milton and Bunyan
  8. Alexander Pope
  9. Jonathan Swift
  10. Quiz 2: Pope and Swift
  11. Samuel Johnson
  12. Oliver Goldsmith
  13. Essay: Swift and Goldsmith  
  14. Quiz 3: Johnson and Goldsmith
  15. Test: 17th- and 18th-Century English Literature
  16. Alternate Test: 17th- and 18th-Century English Literature
  17. Reference
​​UNIT 8 – ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRY 
  1. Romantic Revolution
  2. Poetic Revolution
  3. Quiz 1: Romantic and Victorian Ages
  4. Romantic Poets: Wordsworth
  5. William Wordsworth: Other Poems
  6. Essay: Lessons from Nature
  7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  8. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  9. Essay: Response to Guilt 
  10. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  11. John Keats
  12. Essay: John Constable  
  13. Quiz 2: The Romantic Poets
  14. Victorian Variety
  15. Essay: Queen Victoria
  16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  17. Essay: Views of Nature 
  18. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  19. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  20. Quiz 3: The Victorian Poets
  21. Test: Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  22. Alternate Test: Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  23. Reference

 

UNIT 9 – CREATIVE WRITING

  1. Fiction
  2. Poetry
  3. Quiz 1: Fiction and Poetry
  4. Project: Writing Descriptions  
  5. Narration and Style
  6. Essay: Inventing Characters  
  7. Essay: Writing a Short Story
  8. Quiz 2: Writing the Short Story
  9. Writing the Poem
  10. Project: Writing A Poem  
  11. Quiz 3: Writing Poetry
  12. Test: Creative Writing
  13. Alternate Test: Creative Writing
  14. Reference

UNIT 10 – REVIEW

  1. Origin and Form of Words
  2. Grammar and Semantics
  3. Reading and Literature Types
  4. Expository Writing
  5. Project: Expository Paragraph  
  6. Sentence Structure
  7. Sentence Errors
  8. Creative Writing
  9. Quiz 1: Language
  10. Medieval English Literature
  11. Beowulf and Medieval English History
  12. Middle English Literature
  13. The Canterbury Tales
  14. Elizabethan Literature
  15. Elizabethan Drama
  16. Hamlet
  17. Quiz 2: The Middle Ages and Renaissance
  18. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Literature
  19. Satire, Sense, and Sensibility
  20. Romantic Poetry
  21. The Victorian Era
  22. Quiz 3: 17th-19th-Century English Literature
  23. Test: Review
  24. Alternate Test: Review