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Specialized Science and Math Secondary School
THOMAS ARMSTRONG TORO
Ponce, Puerto Rico
English Program
Twelve Grade Advance English Course Syllabus
Course : Twelfth Grade Advance English
Course Code : INGL 012
Credits : 1
Period : 2013/2014
Professor : Armando Castillo Escobar
Textbook : 1. College Writing Skills with Reading
2. Literature for Composition
3. Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
I. Course Description: This course has been designed to help the students improve their
communication skills and the information obtained by the students during this course will help
them succeed in the United States as non-native speakers. This course has been designed taking
into consideration the English Content Standards and Grade Level Expectations (2007) &
the Curriculum Frame Work (2003) established by the Department of Education of Puerto
Rico and the English Program Circular Letter: 11-2011-2012.
II. Learning and Developmental Goals: A general goal of this course is for all students to
become more confident in their own abilities as they make improvements in the English
/Language arts and working closely to achieve the standards of the DEPR.
During this course the teacher will work with students to help them achieve the learning and
developmental goals:
 To experience success in areas of the four language arts.
 Improve the basic skills in the language arts area.
 Speak and write with confidence.
 Understand the importance of English as they relate it to everyday life.
 Acknowledge the writing process
 Improve reading skills from a range of simple to complex texts.
 Identify the literary concepts and techniques
 Improve skills such as comprehension and analysis
 Work with basic grammar skills
III. Curriculum Standards:
A full description of the curriculum standards of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico is
available at English Program by request.
IV. Teaching Approach:
a. Assessment Techniques
b. Whole language approach
c. Oral Approach
d. Balanced Literacy Approach
e. Natural Approach
V. Teaching Methods:
a. informal lecture
b. note-taking
c. worksheet activities
d. Vocabulary activities
e. teacher created supplementary materials
f. internet use ( when available)
g. groups activities
h. demonstrations / modeling
I. reciting
J. Conference
VI. Student Evaluation:
 Assessment activities
 Oral communication evaluation
 Partial Tests
 Special Assignments
 Class Participation
 Portfolio
 Rubrics for all activities
 Attendance

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VII. Tentative Course Calendar
Date Topics Activities/
Evaluation
Observation
12.1 My Journey so far: Biography, autobiography & memoir
First Week
General Introduction of the Course
A. Classroom Rules
B. Discuss Syllabus
C. General Orientation
D. Portfolio Presentation /Prep
1. Parts & Documents
Syllabus, Handouts,
Rules, Index Cards
Second Week
Pre Diagnostic Testing
A. Tabulation
B. Individual Discussion of results
1. Oral Reports: Travel Brochure
Diagnostic Test (2) Grades
Travel Brochure
Third Week
General Grammar Review for Writers
A. The Sentence
B. The Parts of Speech
Board Exercises and
Power Point
Presentation
Test #1
Fourth Week
The Writing Process,Pg.974
Literature for Composition,
By Barnet, Burto & Cain
Advance English Text
The Essay: Elements of a good Essay
1. When I was Puerto Rican
By Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary
Handouts
Bio-Cube
Bio-Cube
Test #2
Fifth Week
General Introduction of: Timeless voices
timeless Themes, Silver Level.
A. Introduction to the Short Story & Literary
Genres
1. Elements of Fiction
2. Thank You M’am
By Langston Hughes, Pg. 186-189
3. Charles, By Sherly Jackson, Pg. 15-21
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
By Maya Angelou Pg. 22-31
5. The House on Mango Street
By Sandra Cisneros
Blank Documents
Text Exercises
Notebook Essay 1
Sixth Week
What is Poetry?
A. The Elements of Poetry
1. The Road not taken, By R. Frost Pg.34-35
2. All But Blind, By W. La Mare, Pg. 35
3. The Choice, By D. Parker, pg. 36-37
B. College Board Review
Handouts
Textbook
Portfolio
College Board
Pamphlet Activities
Essay 2
12. 2 Walking into the Future: Career Research Project
Seventh Week
Career Research Project will be Posted on
the Class blog:
http://tatenglish12.blogspot.com/
Rubrics for
Presentations
(2) Grades
Presentation
Hand In
Eight Week
Leading the way
1. Email from Bill Gates,
By John Seabrook Pg. 42
2. The Ninny
By Anton Chekhov Pg. 174
3. The Governess
By Neil Simon Pg. 176
Text Exercises
Notebook
Class
Assignment
(1) Grade
Ninth Week
Leading the way (cont.)
1. Harriet Tubman Guide to Freedom
By Ann Petry Pg. 132
2. Club pilot on the Mississippi
By mark twain Pg. 109
Textbook exercises
Test #2
Class
Assignments
(1) Grade
Tenth Week
Introduction to the Speech
A. Elements of Public Speaking
1. The American Dream
By Dr. martin Luther King Jr. Pg.689-691
2. The Trouble with Television
By Robert Mac Neil Pg. 686-688
3. Sharing The American Dream
By Collin Powell, Pg. 694-695
B. Special Assignment: Idea Bank Pg.693
Textbook
Hand In
Questions on
the selection
(2) Grades
Oral
Presentation
(Famous
Speeches)

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Eleventh Week
Review: The Writing Process,Pg.974
The Essay: Elements of a good Essay
1. Brown vs. Board of Education
By W. Dean Mayer, Pg. 238-247
2. Build Your portfolio, Pg. 248
The Personal Statement
Textbook, notebook
12.3 The Long & The Short of it: Fictional Novels & Short Stories
Twelfth
/Thirteenth
Week Introduction to Shakespeare
a. Biography
1. Romeo and Juliet(textbook)
2. Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pg.784
3. The Tell Tale Heart
By Edgar Allen Poe, Pg. 540-549
Special Assignment:
Shakespeareans’
Works
DVD- Midsummer
Night’s Dream
DVD- The Tell Tale
Heart
Movies will be
watched upon
completing
lecture
Assignments
will be posted
on the class
blog.
Fourteenth
Week
What is a Critical Analysis?
1. Parts
2. Examples
Hand In
Critical Analysis
Fifteenth Week
Role Play Activities
1. Criteria’s/rubrics
2. Group Activities
Presentations
Sixteenth
Week/
Seventeenth
Week
Power Point Presentations
1. Group selection
2. Topics should be discussed and presented
to the teacher
Eighteenth /
Nineteenth
Week
Post Diagnostic testing
1. Independent Reading
2. Book Reports
Twentieth
Week
Final Reports and Assignments
 Course syllabus is Subjected to Changes
 Special Assignments may be announced without prior knowledge
 Essay will be announced
 Assignments will not be accepted after due dates NO EXCEPTIONS!
Materials need for the Course:
 VOX (Green) Spanish/ English Dictionary (1) grade
 Overall School Supplies
References:
1. Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. (2000). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:
Prentice Hall.
2. Barnet, S., Burto, W., & Cain, W. E. (2011). Literature for Composition. New York: Pearson.
3. Langan, J. (2008). College Writing Skills with Reading. New York: Mc Graw Hill.
I have read and understood the responsibilities of my child and agree to follow the course
requirements.
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