MONTE VISTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
ENGL, 4250, English IV AP
Reno and Schwager
Course Syllabus
Course Description:
“Engages students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone” (www.collegeboard.com).
Curricular Mapping:
This course applies and extends the literary elements, grammar, speaking, and writing skills accomplished hitherto in the course of study at Monte Vista Christian School. It also recalls the classic literary studies of previous years as we return to those periods and then see their archetypes and symbols populate ensuing literary periods. This course is a rigorous introduction to college-level literary study and composition.
School Objectives (Expected Schoolwide Learning Results):
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Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Better formulate opinions, judge matters, and argue rhetorically from a biblical foundation.
- Analyze and interpret literature, considering how style relates to sense.
- Relate style to sense in their own writing to be more artful and effective communicators of good ideas.
Texts in the Order We Read Them:
Notes:
1. Most books published before 1923 are public domain and so free online (from places like Google Books). This means that some of our books may be read on iPads for free if you wish. If you have any questions, just ask, or wait to purchase a book in question until you talk with your instructor.
2. The only books you need to purchase are in bold. The other books will be available in class and on iPads for free.
Diana Hacker, The Bedford Handbook: ISBN: 0312595050. This is one to buy. You may purchase a paper copy or a digital copy for your iPad.
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (summer reading)
William Strunk Jr., and E.B. White, The Elements of Style. This is free online.
Literature of the World by William Richardson and Jesse Owen. This is free online and out of print; please do not purchase.
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney: ISBN: 039332097
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: ISBN: 9780140424386
William Shakespeare, King Lear and The Tempest
Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (8th Edition) ISBN: 0155074946.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice: ISBN: 486284735
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities: ISBN: 141439602
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness: ISBN: 486264645
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment: ISBN: 0486415872
Outside Reading (as assigned by teacher)
Grading:
Semester Weights: Quarter Weights:
Quarter 1 (3): 40% 40% Essays
Quarter 2 (4): 40% 30% Tests and Quizzes
Final Exam: 20% 30% Homework
Binder, iPad: You must have a well-organized system for keeping your course papers and notes. Your teacher will inform you of any specific expectations in your class.
Class Policies:
1. Attendance: You are responsible to make up any missing work due to your absence. Please turn in work before you leave for a planned absence.
2. Tardy: You must be in your seat with your course materials before the bell rings to be considered timely.
3. Classroom etiquette: We expect responsibility and respect (to us and your peers); those are the prerequisites to godly success (“Honor your father and mother, that it may go well with you in the land”; “Love your neighbor”; “Do all things as unto the Lord”). Offenders can expect a warning, extra assignments, and (if it persists) an infraction.
4. Late Work: One assignment per quarter may be handed in late without penalty up to one week from its due date. This does not apply to work in the last week of any quarter (as grades will be due). If you are a failing student and need to turn in more than one late assignment, you may receive up to ½ credit for other assignments you turn in until you reach a maximum quarter score of 70%.
5. Plagiarism/Cheating: This is treated in the Student Handbook. If you have any questions about this topic, read the handbook and ask your instructor or an administrator. Know that Bedford 55 presents strategies for avoiding plagiarism. For any plagiarism, intentional or accidental, the instructor will issue an infraction and a zero for the assignment. If the teacher chooses to return a plagiarized essay or homework to you so you can rewrite it, your work will be marked late, which means you will earn no more than 50%.
6. Out of Classroom Experiences: Please keep these to real emergencies.
7. Food and Drink: Bottled water only.
8. iPads: These are devices to use in our academic pursuits and subject to policies in the Student Handbook and given by your teacher. Activities outside accepted uses will result in warnings, infractions, environmental (seating, usage) and academic (grade score) consequences.
School Policies:
Students are subject to all academic policies of the school as printed in the Academic Catalog and Student Handbook. Furthermore, it is each student’s responsibility to read and follow all academic policies of the school.
Miscellaneous:
Accommodations: There are as many ways to teach and learn as there are people who teach and learn. This is normal and expected, and the course is designed with many kinds of students in mind; however, if you require any of the following accommodations, consider a course specifically designed to meet your needs (please contact our principal or resource specialist):
1. Reduced coursework
2. Modified grading system
3. Modification/absence of standard essay expectations (grammar, punctuation, spelling, structure)
4. Oral-in-place-of-written examinations
5. More than two times the standard given for in-class essay writing
Instructor Contact:
1. Classroom Hours: 8:00am-3:30 pm
- Email: marcusschwager@mvcs.org;
- School Phone Extension: 454
MONTE VISTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
English II, Sophomore World Literature
Marcus Schwager
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