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English Language Syllabus For PET

This document provides a syllabus for a university-level composition and literature course. The course will focus on analyzing various literary genres such as poetry, short stories, plays, and novels by studying literary elements like plot, character, point of view, and symbolism. Students will develop their analytical skills through daily close reading, frequent writing assignments including journals and essays, and class discussions. The course objectives are to prepare students for university-level English work, the AP literature exam, and developing skills in literary analysis, clear writing, and using research. These objectives will be achieved through consistent reading, writing, and student-led discussion.

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English Language Syllabus For PET

This document provides a syllabus for a university-level composition and literature course. The course will focus on analyzing various literary genres such as poetry, short stories, plays, and novels by studying literary elements like plot, character, point of view, and symbolism. Students will develop their analytical skills through daily close reading, frequent writing assignments including journals and essays, and class discussions. The course objectives are to prepare students for university-level English work, the AP literature exam, and developing skills in literary analysis, clear writing, and using research. These objectives will be achieved through consistent reading, writing, and student-led discussion.

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Composition and Literature

Syllabus
General Description

Welcome! As this is a University level class, you are expected to keep pace with the daily and outside
reading, reading responses, class notes, journal writing and exercises, essays. We will be reading and
analyzing a wide variety of literary genres including poetry, short stories, plays and novels with an
emphasis on the study of literary elements such as plot, character, point of view and symbolism.
Through daily close reading, frequent writing and whole class and small group discussions, you will
develop the ability to work with and gain appreciation of how and why writers use language as they do.
Close readings will form the basis of your writing, which will include personal, analytical, and evaluative
journals and essays.

Course Objectives:

1. To prepare students for the rigors of university level English.

2. To be prepared for the AP English Literature Examination.

3. To prepare students to university level essays through intensive practice in literary analysis, personal
and emotional response, and assessment of artistic and human value, organization, and use of
secondary critical sources.

3. To develop and practice thought processes, discussions and habits that foster

Clear, concise writing.

4. To review the elements of writing such as diction, style, tone, rhetorical purpose, technique and
strategy, as well as audience, form, structure, and syntax.

5. To become familiar with literary elements such as setting, point of view, symbolism, and theme and
literary terms like allusion, ballad, climax, epigram, flashback, heroic couplet, irony, limerick, naturalism,
scansion, tragic flaw, soliloquy, and sonnet.

6. To increase student academic vocabulary by 1,000 words through the learning of new words and in
depth study of roots, etymology, historical influences, word relationships, connotation and denotation.
Recognition vocabulary forms the major part of the learning objective; active vocabulary makes up the
balance.

7. To formulate and construct thoughtful, logical reasoning as means of analysis and evaluation.

8. To train students to use literary and academic research and argumentation as a means to develop and
construct their own positions in both written and oral communication.

9. To develop functional stylistic, literary, rhetorical and academic vocabulary.

10. To become more proficient writers, thinkers and students of English.

How These Objectives Will Be Reached


Through consistent reading, writing and discussion students will increase their analytical, evaluative and
communicative skills. The writing process will include:

• Prewriting techniques such as journal writing, mapping, brainstorming and note-taking; organizing
ideas using such tools as outlines and graphic organizers;

• drafting and revising;

• editing and

• Final draft production. Students will complete such specific writing assignments as effective paragraph

Writing; analytical essays; compare and contrast essays, and a research paper. There will also be
frequent in-class essays to help prepare students for the AP test and college work. Equally important to
the reading and writing component is that this class is student-centered; that is students will be often
required to lead discussion both individually and through groups. The best way to learn is through
discovery, expression and by making mistakes. Students will gain more from this class and achieve better
results by their contributions to class discussion.

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