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ENGLISH IIA: Second Semester

ENGLISH IIA: Second Semester. What you can look forward to…. To Kill a Mockingbird. One of my all time favorite books.

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ENGLISH IIA: Second Semester

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  1. ENGLISH IIA: Second Semester What you can look forward to…

  2. To Kill a Mockingbird • One of my all time favorite books. • The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil.

  3. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar • Shakespeare’s “most readable” work. • It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar. • “Et tu Brute?” • Beware THE IDES of March!

  4. The Legends of King Arthur • We will read a short unit on the legends of the great, chivalrous King Arthur. • We will read about Excalibur the knight’s round table, and What it took to be a knight in Medieval times.

  5. Julius Caesar Recitation • After the Julius Caesar unit, you will be performing a solo recitation in front of the class. • A recitation means you will be reciting lines from the play (usually about 20). • This is not just a memory test, you are expected to speak with emotion.

  6. Nonfiction • There is a collection of nonfiction pieces from your textbook that we will be analyzing, along with articles pulled from outside sources.

  7. If time, (and I really hope there’s time) Night • A work by ElieWiesel about his experience with his father, Shlomo, in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of WWII.

  8. Grammar • Obviously, in English class, we will also have to spend some time focusing on grammar to help improve your writing skills. • This semester we will be focusing on sentences. We will be working with: punctuation, quotations and end marks, as well as semicolons and colons.

  9. That’s all folks! • Let’s have another great semester!

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