Apex English Unit Titles
English I
The Short Story: Plot and Setting
The Short Story: Character
The Short Story: Voice
The Short Story: Tone and Theme
The Short Story: Irony and Symbolism
Nonfiction: Lives in Historical Settings & Contexts
The Art of Persuasion
Poetry
Epics and Myths
Drama: Shakespeare and Broadway
English II
Continuity and Change: Theme Study
Drama (The Crucible )
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion
World Literature: Short Fiction and Poetry
The Novel: The Joy Luck Club
Theme Study: Life Lessons
Drama: Comedy
Life Skills
Documents: Primary Sources
The Novel: A Separate Peace
English III
Review and Introduction to the Course
Documenting Independence
Poetry: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
The Essay: American Masters
The Novel (My Antonia)
Modernism
Drama (Death of a Salesman)
Theme Study: The Struggle for Freedom
The Memoir (The Way to Rainy Mountain)
The Research Essay
English IV
Greek Tragedy and the Birth of Western Literature
Theme Study: The Epic Across Cultures
A Masterpiece in English: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare's Hamlet
History and the Artist: Donne and Swift
The Romantics
Modernist Fiction: New Perspectives
Colonial Literature Part 1
Colonial Literature Part 2
Research Project
English 9/ Common Core
The Short Story Part 1
The Short Story Part 2
Poetry
The Novella "The Metamorphosis"
Drama "Macbeth"
The Rhetoric of Speeches
Reinterpreting Fiction
English 10/ Common Core
The Written Word
The Story
Literary Criticism
The Research Paper
Practical Documents
Persuasive Texts
The Speech
Researched Argumentation
English 11/ Common Core
The American Revolution
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
The American Narrative
Modernism and the The American Dream
Modernism and Language
Redefining Home
Fractured Identities
The Influence of Science and Technology
English 12/ Common Core
Monsters and Heroes
Sins and Crimes
The Tempest
Swift and Defoe
Frankenstein
World War II
The Colonizers and the Colonized
Life of Pi
