English
12
Mr. Wm. Laven blaven@summer.com Phone:
V2A 1Z3
Semester 1: 2014 – 2015
English 12 is a
course designed to improve your reading comprehension and writing skills. We
will explore writing by contemporary and classic authors.
1.
Drama study: We’ll read two dramas together this semester - one each term.
Hamlet, by Wm. Shakespeare 2 weeks
The
Crucible,
by Arthur Miller 2 Weeks
2.
Novel study: We will read two of the following novels (one each term) during
the course of study. Each of you will be responsible for one other novel.
All
Quiet on the Western Front,
Erich Maria Remarque
Ninety Eighty-Four by George Orwell (2 Weeks
)
The
Great Gatsby,
by Fitzgerald
A
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by A. Solzhenitsyn
Three
Day Road,
by Joseph Boyden
The
Road, by
Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (1 week)
Fifth
Business,
by Robertson Davies
3.
Public Speaking: Each student will prepare and present an original speech of
approximately 3 minutes.
4.
Essays will comprise both reading and writing throughout the course of study.
Our focus will be on theme and structure and improving our own writing skills.
5.
Poetry: read & write! (2 weeks intermittent)
6.
Short Stories: We will read a selection of short stories and analyse theme,
character and structure. (3 weeks intermittent)
“The
Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula LeGuinn
“Gentlemen,
Your Verdict” by Michael Bruce
“Just
Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez
“The
Destructors” by Graham Green
“The
Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
“War”
by Luigi Pirandello
Course
Evaluation
Class Work (including participation
and attendance) 30%
Projects 30%
Lit Circles 10%
Homework 10%
Tests and Quizzes 20%
Accelerated Reader will be used
as a bonus project.
The course work will constitute
70% of the final grade with a final exam comprising the remaining 30%. Welcome
to what promises to be a wonderful semester of English 12!
“Ozymandias”
by Percy Bysshe Shelly
I
met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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