1st Form English Literature Syllabus 2017-2018
1st Form English Literature Syllabus 2017-2018
1st Form English Literature Syllabus 2017-2018
Rational: This English Literature course aims to sharpen reading comprehension skills, engage readers in literary analysis, and offer a
variety of literature to suit diverse tastes. Through a varied selection of stories, plays, and poems, many of which highlight exemplary
virtues.
General Objectives: The main goal of first year literature is to introduce students to the pleasures of reading and develop skills for
close reading and literary analysis while considering important human issues and challenging ideas. Therefore students come to
appreciate the writer’s craft as they consider the feelings, thoughts, and ideas of characters, and make connections between literature
and life.
Specific Objectives:
By the end of the course students will be able to:
1. Have a clear understanding of the differences among a poem, an extract, a short story, a novel and a play.
2. Extract explicit and implicit information.
3. Make inferences from information presented or read.
4. Recognize cause and effect relationship.
5. Identify and see major contributions of the following in the works of literature: setting, plot, tone, figurative language, style.
6. Further develop their skills in writing about literature.
7. Move from a simple level of comprehension through an analytical examination of the work, up to a final question that
requires their sense of what the work has achieved.
8. Read more carefully and critically.
9. Realize the major contributions of the following in works of drama: dialogue, allusion, stage directions, symbols, figurative
language.
10. Recognize themes and discuss issues as they relate to everyday life.
Objectives:
Literary Analysis and Appreciation
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personification,
alliteration,
hyperbole,
oxymoron,
onomatopoeia,
symbolism, pun,
allusion, idiom,
imagery
Week 2 Elements of Poetry Define and identify Quiz # 1 Introduction to http://www.teach-
Types of Poems elements of poetry Literature and types of nology.com/works
Poem Construction (voice, stanza, sound, Literature heets/language_art
Quiz # 1 rhythm and meter, Questions and answers s/poems/
rhyme and rhyme Poem Construction: http://www.dmturn
scheme, theme, Write a poem using one er.org/English/Poet
figures of speech, of the forms given. ry/elements.htm
forms) Project http://www.buzzle.
List and define Create a folder using the ten com/articles/basic-
eleven types of given types of poems. elements-of-
poetry (limerick, Folder must include poetry.html
haiku, epitaph, definition for each type of
narrative, diamante, poem and an example poem.
cinquain, ballad, Due Friday, Week 3.
autobiographical,
acrostic, sonnet,
alphabet)
Construct one type of
poem
Week 3 Poem- A Complete a revision Class Discussion: http://www.k12rea
Contemplation worksheet on Vocabulary der.com/subject/fig
Upon Flowers figurative languages Development: urative-language-
Review elements and other elements of Contemplation
worksheets/
of poetry poetry Gallant
A World of Poetry
Test # 1 Read and discuss A Embroidered
Poem Construction Contemplation Upon Garments pg. 10
Flowers Fate
Answer questions on Spruce
A Contemplation Fragrant
Upon Flowers Answer questions
Identify figurative set on the poem: A
languages and other Contemplation
elements in the Upon Flowers
poem. Poem Construct:
Use the title to create Students will use the
their own poem title of the poem read to
Complete a test on create a poem of their
figurative languages own.
and other elements of Test # 1: Figurative
poetry Languages, and
Elements of Poetry
Week 4 Type of Poem- Understand the 1. Class Discussion: Does http://www.readwr
Haiku background and a longer poem mean that itethink.org/classro
Background and origin of haiku, it is better? How can om-
origin Recite a haiku from fewer words be more resources/lesson-
Examples of Haiku memory powerful than the use of plans/seasonal-
Recitation of haiku-writing-
Construct a haiku many?). Conclude the
Haiku poems-
discussion by asking
Construction of 39.html?tab=4#stu
Haiku students what they dent-objectives
already know about
traditional Japanese
culture, and then explain
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Journal Entry:
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Second Term
Objectives: Upon completion of the Second Quarter, students will be able to:
1. relate important incidents in the novel Bridge to Terabithia
2. define, identify and explain types of figurative language
3. demonstrate and develop an appreciation for the poems covered in class
4. enrich their vocabularies and improve their understanding of the novel through the vocabulary lessons prepared for use in
conjunction with the novel.
5. answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the main events and characters in Bridge to Terabithia as
they relate to the author's theme development.
6. gain an appreciation for the value of friendship and personal growth after reading Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia.
7. reflect on the trauma of a character dealing with the death of a friend and the stages of grief.
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