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      • The Personal College Essay
      • Unit 1: Beowulf
      • Unit 2: The Canterbury Tales
      • Unit 3: The Arthurian Legends
      • Unit 3B: The Legend of Robin Hood
      • Unit 4: Oedipus & Greek Tragedy
      • Unit 5: Hamlet
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      • Unit 7: Modernism & Post Modernism
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      • Unit 1: The History of Comics
      • Unit 2: Understanding Comics
      • Unit 3: Archetypes & The Hero's Journey
      • Unit 4: Comics as Social Commentary and Propaganda Machines
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      • Unit 6: Diversity & Multi-Culturalism in Comics
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Pre-AP English 9
This course is designed to engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature and rhetoric.  Such close reading involves the experience of literature, the interpretation of literature and the evaluation of rhetoric through class discussion and advanced writing.


Topics of Study:
  • Aristotle's Rhetorical Appeals
  • The Argumentative Essay
  • Elements of Plot & Figurative Language
  • The Horror Genre
  • The Dystopian Genre
  • Poetry
  • Shakespeare

Texts We Will Study:
  • Aristotle's Rhetoric
  • Frankenstein
  • Under the Dome
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Macbeth
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Animal Farm
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Ender's Game
  • Hamlet










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