English IV

Course Length

2 Semesters

This senior-year English Language Arts course invites you to explore a diverse collection of texts organized into thematic units. You will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of both classic and contemporary literature. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, you will learn comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Tasks encourage you to strengthen your oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing.

You will read a range of classic texts including the ancient epic Gilgamesh, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. You will study short but complex texts, including essays by Jonathan Swift and Mary Wollstonecraft, and influential speeches by Queen Elizabeth I and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Contemporary texts by Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Chinua Achebe round out the course.

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Overview of Concepts

• Unit 1: Epic Beginnings
• Unit 2: From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance
• Unit 3: Life in the Renaissance
• Unit 4: Elizabethan Drama: The Tragedy of Hamlet
• Unit 5: The Enlightenment in England
• Unit 6: Romanticism in England
• Unit 7: The Gothic Novel: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Unit 8: Nineteenth-Century England
• Unit 9: The First Half of the Twentieth Century
• Unit 10: Cultural Reflections in Art and Artifacts
• Unit 11: Contemporary Voices
• Unit 12: Success and Planning for the Future