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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Comprehensive Outline


SOPHOMORE ENGLISH CURRICULUM OUTLINE 2012 Comp
GRAMMAR:  Chapters 12-19, 21-25, Part 4 (Business Letter)
VOCABULARY:  units I-VI (excluding unit III) definitions, sentence completions, word parts, spelling (lists 1-25)
LITERATURE:  novel terms, poetry terms and scansion, elements of drama, parts of a classical oration, literary periods, genres, and styles.
A Separate Peace
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (508)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”  (handout)
“Nature”  (handout)
“Psalm of Life” (258)
“To Helen” (handout)
Of Plymouth Plantation (excerpts) (78)
“Huswifery” (100)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (108)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (excerpts) (141)
Poor Richard’s Almanac (excerpts) (146)
“Speech to the Virginia Convention” (187)
Letters from an American Farmer (excerpts) (208)
The Scarlet Letter
“The Devil and Tom Walker” (242)
“Thanatopsis” (267)
“The Raven” (326)
Moby Dick, “The Chase” (361)
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (420)
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” (422)
“Song of Myself” (canto 1) (436)
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” (444)
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (581)
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (569)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“To Build a Fire (609)
“An Episode of War” (477)
 “Richard Cory” (669)
“Lucinda Matlock” (669)
 “Mending Wall” (887)
“The Road Not Taken” (handout)
“Chicago” (839)
"From the Dark Tower" (936)
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (927)
“The Tropics in New York” (930)
“The Night the Ghost Got In” (898)
“The First Seven Years” (988)
The Crucible (1233)
The Old Man and the Sea