VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR

WRITING

SPEAKING

LITERATURE

*analogies

*weekly vocabulary lists

·          AVG  10-15 words

·          QUEST/ADV 20-25 words

*roots, prefixes, & suffixes

·          AVG 2-4

·          QUEST/ADV 4-6

*parallelism

*verbals

*clauses

*pronoun/antecedent

  agreement

*clear sentences

  punctuation (review)

*Persuasive Essay

       (G.H.S.G.T format)

*Cause/Effect Essay

*Comparison/Contrast

   Essay

*Documented literary

  analysis essay

 Business/Friendly

 Letters

*Class discussion

 *Oral presentations

    using technology

*Periods of American

  Literature

·          Colonial

·          Revolutionary

·          Romanticism & the American Renaissance

·          Civil War/Post-War

·          Rise of Modernism

*American Drama

*American Novel

      (see list)

NOVELS:

APPLIED/GENERAL

COLLEGE PREP

A.P./QUEST

SUMMER

*The Red Badge of Courage

*The Great Gatsby

 The Scarlet Letter

 A Raisin in the Sun

Go Tell It On the Mountain

*The Scarlet Letter

*The Great Gatsby

 A Farewell to Arms

 The Adventures of

           Huckleberry Finn

 Jubilee

*Death of a Salesman

 The Crucible

 (and/or any selections from

   the Applied/General list)

*The Scarlet Letter

*The Great Gatsby

*The Crucible

*Their Eyes Were

       Watching God

*A Streetcar Named

       Desire

 Billy Budd

(and/or any selections  

    from the other lists)

To Sir With Love

Daisy Miller

The Adventures of Tom

                                  Sawyer

The Hunt for Red October

A Lesson Before Dying

The Hot Zone

As I Lay Dying

The Ditchdigger's Daughters

The Fellowship of the Ring

My Antonia

(A.P. American Lit/Comp has

a separate reading list)