The course Academic English 4 is the combination of what was once British Literature 4 and Composition 4. The newly designed course, now a year-long model, combines the literature and the process of composition. The links and documents relate to the course and are subject to change as necessary.
Academic English 4: Final Exam Document [TBD]
Academic English 4: Course Syllabus [Physical Copy Available Upon Request]
Academic English 4 Online Textbook
User Name/Password: Simply use your North Allegheny Student User Name & Password
Academic English 4 Online Textbook Document.
Academic English 4 Online Essay Smart Activation Code: See Instructor
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Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon/Medieval Periods:
35 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 19-23.
The Wanderer: Page 104.
Key Vocabulary: callow, serpentine, enjambment,
comitatus
Beowulf: Page 36.
Key Vocabulary: epic, philanthropy, purge,
heathen, loathe, wergild
The Canterbury Tales-
The Prologue: Page 140.
The Wife of Bath's Tale: Page 179.
Key Vocabulary: incubus, implore, sovereignty
rebuke
The Pardoner's Tale: Page 165.
Key Vocabulary: avarice, castigate
Get Up and Bar the Door: Page 220.
Key Vocabulary: hussyfskap
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight: Page 226.
Key Vocabulary: dais, respite, staunch, feinted, vex
Handouts:
UNIT 1 EXAM REVIEW DOCUMENT
What Makes a Hero?: A video relating to the Stages of the Hero's Journey.
The Stages of the Hero's Journey. Class document.
Anglo-Saxon Themes. Class document.
The Story. A music video showcasing several Anglo-Saxon themes.
The Prologue Packet. Class document.
Chivalry/Courtly Love. Class document.
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Unit 2: The Renaissance:
33 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 286-297.
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Page 340.
Key Vocabulary: equivocation, corporal, harbinger, largesse,
muse, pernicious, vice, blaspheming, treachery
Shakespearean Sonnets: Pages 318, 320.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Page 306.
Key Vocabulary: madrigal, kirtle
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd: Page 308.
Key Vocabulary: Philomel, wanton, gall, folly
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning: Page 510.
Key Vocabulary: virtuous, tempest, laity, profane, trepidation
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Unit 3: The Restoration & 18th Century:
19 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 550-559.
A Modest Proposal: Page 610.
Key Vocabulary: sustenance, rudiment, collateral,
deference, expedient, encumbrance,
propogation
Dictionary of the English Lang.: Page 660.
Handouts:
A Modest Proposal Pre-reading Pamphlet
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Unit 4: The Flowering of Romanticism:
10 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 738-747.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Page 798.
Key Vocabulary: kirk, minstrel, albatross, gossamer, sultry,
hoary, wan, jargon, abated, penance, smote
Poetry: @ least four from- Wordsworth, Blake,
Shelley, Burns, Byron.
Key Vocabulary: TBA based on selection(s).
Ozymandias- Page 848.
Key Vocabulary: visage, sneer
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud- Page 792.
Key Vocabulary: vale, sprightly
The World is Too Much With Us- Page 791.
Key Vocabulary: sordid, boon, Proteus
To a Mouse- Page 768.
Key Vocabulary: dominion, vain
To a Louse- Page 771.
Key Vocabulary: louse, mercurial, blunder
Ode on a Grecian Urn- Page 866-67
Key Vocabulary: sylvan, deity, parch, heifer, citadel
Handouts/Resources:
This + That Equations Assignment
This + That Equations Examples (Some Blanks for Review)
Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A 13.38 min. video, music w/ lyrics.
Bastille- The Weight of Living, Part 1. A 3.24 min. video, music w/ lyrics (A. Marisco)
Romanticism: General Overview Notes/Influences
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Unit 5: The Victorians
14 Days
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Readings: Pages 894-903.
The Importance of Being Earnest: [See Instructor for Work]
Key Vocabulary: lax, candid, bunburyist, expurgation, Christened,
semi-recumbent, indecorous, profligate, quixotic,
misanthrope, celibacy, canonical, portmanteau,
philanthropic, insuperable, secular, perambulator
Poetry: To an Athlete Dying Young, and @ least one from-
Browning, Hardy, Housman, Arnold, Tennyson.
To an Athlete Dying Young- Page 1042.
Key Vocabulary: renown, rout, laurel
Porphyria's Lover- Page 929.
Key Vocabulary: sullen, vex, dissever, tress
Ah, are you digging on my grave?- Page 1052.
Key Vocabulary: rue
Handouts/Resources:
Un-unraveable Web. A 5.oo min. video, Big Bang Theory clip related to Bunburying.
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Unit 6: Modern and Contemporary-
46 Days
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Readings:
Poetry: The Hollow Men, Dulce et Decorum Est, and @ least
one from-
The Soldier- Page 1222.
Key Vocabulary: None.
Dulce et Decorum Est- Document w/ Notes.
Key Vocabulary: vile, zest.
When You Are Old- Page 1172.
Key Vocabulary: None.
The Unknown Citizen- Page 1154.
Key Vocabulary: scab, eugenics
The Hollow Men- Page 1096.
Key Vocabulary: solemn, staves, supplication, tumid,
multifoliate, potency.
The Destructors- [See Instructor for Work]
Key Vocabulary: ignoble, wary, parody, fickle, brooding,
estuary, lorry.
Handouts/Resources:
The Unknown Student Assignment
Core Novel Selection Handout
Dulce Et Decorum Est. Animation.
Dulce Et Decorum Est. Music Video.
Academic English 4: Final Exam Document [TBD]
Academic English 4: Course Syllabus [Physical Copy Available Upon Request]
Academic English 4 Online Textbook
User Name/Password: Simply use your North Allegheny Student User Name & Password
Academic English 4 Online Textbook Document.
Academic English 4 Online Essay Smart Activation Code: See Instructor
*************************************************************************
Unit 1: Anglo-Saxon/Medieval Periods:
35 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 19-23.
The Wanderer: Page 104.
Key Vocabulary: callow, serpentine, enjambment,
comitatus
Beowulf: Page 36.
Key Vocabulary: epic, philanthropy, purge,
heathen, loathe, wergild
The Canterbury Tales-
The Prologue: Page 140.
The Wife of Bath's Tale: Page 179.
Key Vocabulary: incubus, implore, sovereignty
rebuke
The Pardoner's Tale: Page 165.
Key Vocabulary: avarice, castigate
Get Up and Bar the Door: Page 220.
Key Vocabulary: hussyfskap
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight: Page 226.
Key Vocabulary: dais, respite, staunch, feinted, vex
Handouts:
UNIT 1 EXAM REVIEW DOCUMENT
What Makes a Hero?: A video relating to the Stages of the Hero's Journey.
The Stages of the Hero's Journey. Class document.
Anglo-Saxon Themes. Class document.
The Story. A music video showcasing several Anglo-Saxon themes.
The Prologue Packet. Class document.
Chivalry/Courtly Love. Class document.
**************************************************************************************
Unit 2: The Renaissance:
33 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 286-297.
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Page 340.
Key Vocabulary: equivocation, corporal, harbinger, largesse,
muse, pernicious, vice, blaspheming, treachery
Shakespearean Sonnets: Pages 318, 320.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Page 306.
Key Vocabulary: madrigal, kirtle
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd: Page 308.
Key Vocabulary: Philomel, wanton, gall, folly
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning: Page 510.
Key Vocabulary: virtuous, tempest, laity, profane, trepidation
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Unit 3: The Restoration & 18th Century:
19 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 550-559.
A Modest Proposal: Page 610.
Key Vocabulary: sustenance, rudiment, collateral,
deference, expedient, encumbrance,
propogation
Dictionary of the English Lang.: Page 660.
Handouts:
A Modest Proposal Pre-reading Pamphlet
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Unit 4: The Flowering of Romanticism:
10 Days.
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Reading: Pages 738-747.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Page 798.
Key Vocabulary: kirk, minstrel, albatross, gossamer, sultry,
hoary, wan, jargon, abated, penance, smote
Poetry: @ least four from- Wordsworth, Blake,
Shelley, Burns, Byron.
Key Vocabulary: TBA based on selection(s).
Ozymandias- Page 848.
Key Vocabulary: visage, sneer
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud- Page 792.
Key Vocabulary: vale, sprightly
The World is Too Much With Us- Page 791.
Key Vocabulary: sordid, boon, Proteus
To a Mouse- Page 768.
Key Vocabulary: dominion, vain
To a Louse- Page 771.
Key Vocabulary: louse, mercurial, blunder
Ode on a Grecian Urn- Page 866-67
Key Vocabulary: sylvan, deity, parch, heifer, citadel
Handouts/Resources:
This + That Equations Assignment
This + That Equations Examples (Some Blanks for Review)
Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A 13.38 min. video, music w/ lyrics.
Bastille- The Weight of Living, Part 1. A 3.24 min. video, music w/ lyrics (A. Marisco)
Romanticism: General Overview Notes/Influences
**************************************************************************************
Unit 5: The Victorians
14 Days
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Readings: Pages 894-903.
The Importance of Being Earnest: [See Instructor for Work]
Key Vocabulary: lax, candid, bunburyist, expurgation, Christened,
semi-recumbent, indecorous, profligate, quixotic,
misanthrope, celibacy, canonical, portmanteau,
philanthropic, insuperable, secular, perambulator
Poetry: To an Athlete Dying Young, and @ least one from-
Browning, Hardy, Housman, Arnold, Tennyson.
To an Athlete Dying Young- Page 1042.
Key Vocabulary: renown, rout, laurel
Porphyria's Lover- Page 929.
Key Vocabulary: sullen, vex, dissever, tress
Ah, are you digging on my grave?- Page 1052.
Key Vocabulary: rue
Handouts/Resources:
Un-unraveable Web. A 5.oo min. video, Big Bang Theory clip related to Bunburying.
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Unit 6: Modern and Contemporary-
46 Days
Readings:
Online Textbook
Historical Readings:
Poetry: The Hollow Men, Dulce et Decorum Est, and @ least
one from-
The Soldier- Page 1222.
Key Vocabulary: None.
Dulce et Decorum Est- Document w/ Notes.
Key Vocabulary: vile, zest.
When You Are Old- Page 1172.
Key Vocabulary: None.
The Unknown Citizen- Page 1154.
Key Vocabulary: scab, eugenics
The Hollow Men- Page 1096.
Key Vocabulary: solemn, staves, supplication, tumid,
multifoliate, potency.
The Destructors- [See Instructor for Work]
Key Vocabulary: ignoble, wary, parody, fickle, brooding,
estuary, lorry.
Handouts/Resources:
The Unknown Student Assignment
Core Novel Selection Handout
Dulce Et Decorum Est. Animation.
Dulce Et Decorum Est. Music Video.