Fall High School course 

This course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of literary analysis, introduce you to assignments and lessons similar to those in IB / AP courses, and your standard English Literature curriculum. It includes texts from a wide range of genres and literary periods, aiming to improve your skills in organizing, writing, and editing essays and other writing assignments.

We will delve into three captivating books:  Of Mice and Men, 1984 and The Crucible.

Each of three literary works has been adapted into a movie, providing not only additional engagement for readers but also opportunities to compare various narrative techniques.

Become a Better Writer Part Two (lessons 13-28) will focus on revision skills, looking at structure and style in various genres. Students will improve their organization of ideas, sentence structure, diction, rhetorical and literary devices, grammar, and punctuation. During the course, they will write four essay drafts (persuasive, synthesis, personal, and literary) and get feedback from the teacher on each. They will write three content tests and one grammar quiz. They will finish the course by revising one of their essay drafts, showcasing what they’ve learned about structure and style.

Fall High School course 

This course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of literary analysis, introduce you to assignments and lessons similar to those in IB / AP courses, and your standard English Literature curriculum. It includes texts from a wide range of genres and literary periods, aiming to improve your skills in organizing, writing, and editing essays and other writing assignments.

We will delve into three captivating books:  Of Mice and Men, 1984 and The Crucible.

Each of three literary works has been adapted into a movie, providing not only additional engagement for readers but also opportunities to compare various narrative techniques.

Fall MS course 

This course is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of literary analysis, introduce you to assignments and lessons similar to those in IB / AP courses, and your standard English Literature curriculum. It includes texts from a wide range of genres and literary periods, aiming to improve your skills in organizing, writing, and editing essays and other writing assignments.

We will delve into three captivating books:  The Giver, Ghost by Jason Reynolds, A Wrinkle in Time.

Each of three literary works has been adapted into a movie, providing not only additional engagement for readers but also opportunities to compare various narrative techniques.

The Great Writing provides clear explnations, academic writing models, and focused practice to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Every unit has expanded vocabulary building, sentence development, and more structured final writing tasks.

Content:
Unit 1 Paragraphs
Unit 2 Features of Good Writing
Unit 3 Types of Paragraphs
Unit 4 Classification Essays: Moving from Paragraph to Essay
Unit 5 Cause-Effect Essays
Unit 6 Comparison Essays
Unit 7 Problem-Solution Essays

 Frankenstein Course Outline 

Written over 200 years ago when its author was only 19,_ _Mary Shelley’s _Frankenstein is one of the most significant and enduring novels in English. In every age, and ours in particular, we come face to face with our own Creature, the offspring of our deeds and technology, with the potential to save or to destroy us. What many people do not realize is that Mary Shelley's Creature is an articulate and feeling being, and the novel contains as much philosophy as horror.

In this course, we will examine the novel and its background in the Romantic period. We will discuss and debate the issues it raises with respect to ethics in science and technology. Students will also be introduced to approaches to literary scholarship and criticism. The culminating assignment will be a passage-based essay.

Please note: The text for this course is the 1818 edition of the novel. There are significant differences between this edition and later ones. An electronic version can be found here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41445/41445-h/41445-h.h

A print version has been published by Penguin: Frankenstein: The 1818 text

Schedule

1 Background, letters

Homework – _read to end of Ch. 3; paragraph writing

2 Ch. 4 in class; discuss ethics and science

Homework – _read to end of Ch. 6; close reading assignment

3 Ch. 7, discussion, debate prep

Homework – _Read to end of Vol. 2, Ch. 2; Debate prep

4 Vol 2., Ch .3 Debate #1

Homework – _read to end of Vol. 2, Ch. 4; test

5 Vol. 2, Ch. 5, Paradise Lost excerpts

Homework – _read to end of Vol. 2, Ch. 8; writing assignment

6 Vol. 2: Ch. 9 discussion and debate #2 prep

Homework – _read to end of Vol. 3, Ch. 3; debate prep

7 Vol. 3, Ch. 4; debate #2

Homework End of Vol .3, Ch. 6; creative writing

8 Vol. 3, Ch. 7; scholarly essays

Homework - rest of book; prep for essay

9 Discussion, essay prep, scholarship

Homework: Essay

10 Frankenstein in media and academe

Note: Course time : Sep. 13， 20， 27, Oct. 11，18， 25  （no class on Oct.4）
Nov.8， 15， 22， 29（conferencing)-No class on 11.1 , and Dec.6

This course will use the writing process to teach middle school students creative and critical thinking techniques and editing skills to produce finely wrought pieces of writing in various academic genres such as persuasive essays, personal essays, speeches, podcast scripts, literary analysis, and timed writing. Students will do writing exercises during class and for homework. Lessons will feature one-on-one conferences with the teacher to discuss each student’s work-in-progress. 

Part One will focus on thinking skills, helping students come up with fresh and insightful ideas for their writing. It will also cover how to avoid plagiarism while doing research.