WELCOME to COLLEGE PREP ENGLISH

 Purposes  Gain an understanding of the link between British Literature and our own language and writing.  Write an essay a hero of yours.  Create an epic poem based on modern events  Increase our vocabulary  Create poetic character sketches and stories similar to the Canterbury Tales  Re-familiarize ourselves with grammar rules  Read Shakespeare  Memorize and recite a Shakespearean passage  Write a sonnet

Anglo-Saxon Beowulf Medieval Canterbury Tales Renaissance Macbeth

 GROUPS  Assigned an author and one of his/her works  Research paper with ten resources  Slideshow that supports the research and informs the class. and  Board Game or Power point Jeopardy game or Q & A Game or One or two act script that is acted out in class.

APA Research Paper Restructure your English 11 MLA formatted research paper to correspond with APA formatting standards.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS College Visit Job Shadow 10 Hours of Community Service Exit Presentation

Typical class will go like this: WRITING First ten minutes: Respond to a WRITING prompt with a half to a full page in a journal book. GRAMMAR Next ten minutes: Work on and complete a work sheet on some form of GRAMMAR. VOCABULARY Next ten minutes: Work in pairs on some form of VOCABULARY; i.e. work sheet, dictionary, DOL

Time remaining: Read and respond to literature by… --reading aloud (and answering oral questions) --silent reading ( and giving a written response ) --listening to an audio disk or instructor read ( and taking a quiz )or Time remaining: Work on some form or career project that fulfills your graduation requirements: Exit presentation, job shadow paperwork, college visit paperwork, EDP, community service logging, etc.