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In this 16-week self-paced class (asynchronous), students will do the second half of World Literature and Composition where we will analyze fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, and write short stories, poetry, and essays on related topics. If students are taking the class for an academic grade, they should plan on spending several hours a week on the class for the lessons, homework, projects, and reading. 

This class can be used as a core English/Literature/Language Arts/ELA course for 10th or 11th grade (US standards). For non US-students, please contact me and I can send you the standards to see if it will suit your high school/secondary school year 10, 11, or 12 student's needs.  

Students do NOT need to take Semester A to take Semester B. 

There are NO live meetings for this course. Multiple posts will be made to the classroom each week which will include: video lessons on the text and language arts/grammar lessons, reading questions for the reading that need to be responded to, homework which will include the reading and worksheet/writing/creative project assignment, and question/answer posts regarding language arts, vocabulary, and grammar. 

Students will read a book of choice, excerpts, poetry, plays, and a memoir as we work through various themes and topics throughout the semester. Grammar, vocabulary, and writing will be a part of each unit and students will learn and reinforce MLA format for their essays. 

Choice Book - Students will also pick a fiction or creative nonfiction text (a list possible titles will be provided) to read on their own throughout the course which will conclude with a book report. 

Unit 1 - Hero Unit - approx. 4 weeks
In this unit, students will learn about the different hero archetypes throughout the history of literature. The hero archetypes that will be covered in this unit are: A Hero's Journey story structure, Epic Heroes, Classical Heroes, Tragic Heroes, Superheroes, Antiheroes, Unwilling Heroes, and Everyman Heroes. Students will look at film clips, watch hero films, and read excerpts from possible texts: Jane Eyre, Rikki-tikki-tavi, King Arthur, Beowulf, Oedipus, Romeo and Juliet, and The Hobbit. The unit will conclude with students completing several mini-projects (creative to critical) to showcase their knowledge. Various lessons on writing techniques, grammar, and vocabulary will be including in the unit. 
  
Unit 2 - Poetry - approx. 4 weeks
In this unit, students will study poems and songs from around the world. Students will explore common elements found in poetry including diction and ambiguity, structure, imagery, characterization, figurative meanings, personification, simile and metaphor, allusion sound and rhythm, rhyme schemes, voice and tone, and theme and meaning. Students will write their own poems and/or songs, breakdown the structure of poems and/or songs, and learn more about the poets and songwriters. Students will read an examine poems from Ellen Kay, Rupi Kaur, F.R. Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Wilfred Owen, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Amit Majmudar, Dylan Thomas, Lola Ridge, Thomas Hardy, Aimee Nezhukumatahil, John Donne, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Philip Larkin, Margaret Atwood, and William Wordsworth. The unit will conclude with the students picking three mini-projects (creative to critical) to analyze or write their own poems. Various lessons on writing techniques, grammar, and vocabulary will be including in the unit. 

Unit 3 - Drama  - approx. 4 weeks
In this unit, students will read The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Students will study two classic plays and analyze the plots/story of each play, compare and contrast characters, identify setting and how it relates to the story, and literary devices used by both playwrights. By the end of this unit, the students will be able to: identify the main conflict of the play and elaborate on its moral complexities; compare and contrast characters, assessing such aspects as personality traits, behavior, motivations, values, and beliefs; analyze the examples of irony within the play and explain the role that irony plays in comedy; discuss dramatic irony in plays; identify and discuss the plays' themes; and learn about play, act, and scene structure. The students will pick a film to watch of one of the plays and contrast it with the written play. The unit will conclude with the students researching and creating a slideshow presentation about world theatre; including an MLA works cited page. Various lessons on writing techniques, grammar, and vocabulary will be including in the unit. 

Unit 4 - Nonfiction - approx. 4 weeks
In this unit, students will read and analyze Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. As the students examine the text they will learn what a memoir is, learn about historical context, what is apartheid and how did it relate to Trevor Noah's life, the use of humor, literary and rhetorical elements, what bias and perspective are, and write two essays (personal perspective narrative and an argumentative essay) during the unit. Various lessons on writing techniques, grammar, and vocabulary will be including in the unit.