This is a page for crafting the curriculum for next year's English II.

Overview: Units of Study

First Semester

1. Writer's workshop: Establishing norms and prewriting (2 weeks)
2. Literature norms: responding to literature, levels of questions, discussion facilitation, setting up outside reading groups (2 weeks)
3. Writer's workshop: Genre study on poetry (3 weeks)
4. Reading: Mythology: How does mythology shape our thinking? (5 weeks)
5. Writer's Workshop: Genre study on the feature article (6 weeks)

Second Semester

1. Reading: Othello: Reading strategies, text/subtext, interpretation through performance (5 weeks)
2. Writer's Workshop: Genre study of the short story (4 weeks)
3. Literature circles: Critical lenses (?) (5 weeks)
4. Writer's workshop: Revision and publication (4 weeks)