Read Like a Writer; Write Like a Reader

English with the Brady Bunch

English 2A Pre-Advanced Placement

Instructor: Mr. Tom Brady Email: tbrady1@houstonisd.org

Main Texts: The Language of Literature (McDougal-Littel)

Elements of Language (Holt, Rinehart, Winston)

Laying the Foundation (Advanced Placement Strategies)

Image Grammar, (a resource book)

The Houston Chronicle, (Chronicle in Education / Donor’s Choose)

First Six Weeks

LITERATURE – Selected Short Stories and Poems

Objectives:

  • Interpret literary elements, rhetorical devices, and conventions
  • Practice AP style terminology and reading strategies
  • Use context clues to determine word meanings
  • Perform literary analyses orally and in writing
  • Practice AP timed writing
  • Generate ideas, plan, draft, revise, edit, proofread, and publish
  • Acquire vocabulary from context of readings

    • GRAMMAR AND USAGE REVIEW TOPICS: Parts of Speech, Parts of Sentences and

    Sentence Combining, Types of Sentences, Revising andEditing

    VOCABULARY: Word Origins – Prefixes, Suffixes, and Stems, Literary Terms

    LITERARY EMPHASIS: Methods of Discourse – Descriptive Personal Narrative,

    Expositive, Persuasive

    COMPOSITION: Persuasive, Application Essay, Analysis of Literary Work, AP Timed

    Writing, Open-ended Response, Personal Narrative

    LITERARY TERMS: Forty Plus Terms, such as Plot, Theme, Character, Dramatic Irony

    TEST PREPARATION: TEKS / TAKS, Advanced Placement, Benchmark and

    Diagnostic Tests, End of Course

    ONGOING ASSESSMENT METHODS: Diagnostic Tests, Portfolios, Journals,

    Presentations, Projects, Sentence Writing, Oral Tests,

    Extended Compositions, Open-ended Writing, Discussions,

    Read Like a Writer; Write Like a Reader

    Second Six Weeks

    LITERATURE: Mysteries, Antigone / Heroic Legends

    OBJECTIVES:

  • Interpret literary elements, especially drama / Greek Tragedies
  • Apply a variety of reading strategies including analyzing word parts
  • Increase vocabulary from reading context with an emphasis on literary terms
  • Plan, draft, revise, edit, proofread, and publish a comparison contrast essay and personal narrative paper

    • GRAMMAR AND USAGE REVIEW TOPICS: Revising and Editing, Punctuation,

    Common Agreement Problems, Sentence Parts and Combining, Sentence

    Structure and Types

    VOCABULARY: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Analogies, Literary Terms

    LITERARY EMPHASIS: Literary Analysis

    COMPOSITION: Open-ended Answers, Descriptive Personal Narrative, AP Timed Writing

    LITERARY TERMS: Forty Plus Terms, such as Situational Irony, Tragic Flaw, Blank Verse, Memoir, Foreshadowing

    TEST PREPARATION: TEKS / TAKS, Advanced Placement, Benchmark and

    Diagnostic Tests, End of Course, College Entrance

    ONGOING ASSESSMENT METHODS: Diagnostic Tests, Portfolios, Journals,

    Presentations, Projects, Sentence Writing, Oral Tests, Extended Compositions,

    Open-ended Writing, and Discussions.

    Third Six Weeks

    LITERATURE – Non Fiction / Poetry

    Objectives:

  • Read and interpret the selected literary works
  • Identify and use appropriate reading strategies
  • Emphasize using AP strategies for close reading
  • Compare experiences with those of cultures and cultural contexts
  • Demonstrate skills with literary terms, rhetorical devices, and conventions
  • Publish Descriptive Personal Narrative

    • Grammar and Usage Topics: Revising and Editing, Modifiers and Sentence Types,

    Agreement of Sentence Elements

    VOCABULARY: Context Clues, Literary Terms

    LITERARY EMPHASIS: Literary Analysis, Organization

    COMPOSITION: Open-ended Answers, Descriptive Personal Narrative

    Read Like a Writer; Write Like a Reader

    LITERARY TERMS: Fifty Plus Terms, such as Allegory, Allusion, Analogy, Antithesis,

    Caricature, Dialect, Flashback, Zoom, Internal Argument, Snapshot

    TEST PREPARATION: TEKS / TAKS, Advanced Placement, Benchmark and

    Diagnostic Tests, End of Course, College Entrance

    ONGOING ASSESSMENT METHODS: Diagnostic Tests, Portfolios, Journals,

    Presentations, Projects, Sentence Writing, Oral Tests, Extended Compositions,

    Open-ended Response, and Discussions.

    Things to Know

    REQUIRED MATERIALS:

    THE TOTAL POINTS GRADING SYSTEM WILL BE USED

    TUTORIALS:

    Assignment to afternoon or before school tutorials will be determined by academic progress. Attendance will be imperative. A zero on any assignment at a mid-grading period may result in a failing progress report. Failure to turn in assigned work in a timely manner may also mean academic detention will be appropriate. In short, no one is here to allow students to fail. A safety net called tutoring or academic detention is in place in room 217.

    PLAGIARISM:

    Assignments not done entirely by the student will receive the grade of zero.

    BENEFITS:

    Students needing to adjust behavior or academic progress have teacher detention to help.