Sophomore Honors Curriculum  2007-2008

1st Quarter

Themes: Authority, Power (Who rules you? What is power? Who has it? Who deserves it?)

What is freedom?

Fahrenheit 451 (Summer Reading)

1984

Personal Choice Book

Banned Books (including essay)

Writing: Persuasive Essay, Free Writing, Personal Journal, Thoughts and Opinions

Poetry (Frost “Apple Picking”, Emily Dickinson) Short Stories (Bierce, Poe)

Vocabulary: 60 Words

MCAS:

Grammar: Sentence and Paragraph Structure: Run-on Sentences

2nd Quarter

Themes: "Coming of Age":Search for Self: Who am I?

The Catcher in the Rye

Siddhartha

Personal Choice Book (extra credit)

Writing: Exercises in Self-Discovery,  Leads,  Conclusions, Book Review

Analysing Editorials

Vocabulary: 60 Words

Conventions: Punctuation, Sentence Structure

MCAS: Essays

3rd Quarter

Theme: What is a tragedy? What is a tragic character?

Drama: Othello

War themed poems  (Hardy, Owen, Yeats, Stevens and Auden)

Elie Wiesel's Night

Dramatic Play Reading

Poetry, Short Stories & excerpts from literature (Shirley Jackson, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath)

Writing: literary analysis

Vocabulary: 60 Words

MCAS (including Test Taking Techniques)

4th Quarter

Theme: Insanity: Who is insane? Who decides?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Free Choice Book

Drama: Dramatic one-act and short play readings

Writing: Opinion pieces, editorials (combining knowledge of literary analysis and the persuasive essay), poetry

Poetry, Short Stories: TBA

Vocabulary: 60 Words