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Watchung Hills Regional High School
English Department
Thematic Syllabus: English 2H
Honors
Mr. Kanach
Unit 1:Fight the Good Fight: The nature of good and evil—explores the variety of conflicts that man has engaged in throughout actual and literary history in an effort to reach deeper understanding of and insight into those conflicts that we face today.
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Author |
Page |
Genre |
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All Quiet on the Western Front |
Remarque |
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Novel |
Macbeth |
Shakespeare |
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Drama |
Antigone |
Sophocles |
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Drama |
The Book Thief |
Zusak |
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Novel |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Wilde |
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Novel |
Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets |
Stephenson |
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Short Story |
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The Monkey's Paw |
Jacobs |
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Short Story |
Conscientious Objector |
Millay |
244 |
Poem |
The Open Window |
Saki |
471 |
Short Story |
Leiningen vs. the Ants |
Stephenson |
480 |
Short Story |
Vocabulary for the College Bound Student |
Levine |
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Vocabulary |
Writing Projects |
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Writing |
English Grammar and Composition |
Warriner |
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Grammar |
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Unit Project |
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Unit II: Self Realizations—illustrates the outside influences affecting inner growth through environment, family relationships and developing maturity.
Title |
Author |
Page |
Genre |
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Master Harold and The Boys |
Fugard |
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Drama |
The Color Purple |
Walker |
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Novel |
Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger |
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Novel |
Absolute True Diary |
Alexie |
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Novel |
How Much Land Does a Man Need? |
Tolstoy |
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Parable |
Vocabulary for the College Bound Student |
Levine |
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Vocabulary |
Writing Assignments |
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Writing |
English Grammar and Composition |
Warriner |
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Grammar |
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Unit Project |
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Unit III: Facing Realities —illustrates the fundamental contrast between viewing life from either an ideal or a more objective perspective.
Title |
Author |
Page |
Genre |
Catcher in The Rye |
Salinger |
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Novel |
Me Talk Pretty |
Sedaris |
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Essay |
The Glass Menagerie |
Williams |
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Drama |
The Metamorphosis |
Kafka |
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Short Story |
Vocabulary for the College Bound Student |
Levine |
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Vocabulary |
Writing Projects |
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Writing |
English Grammar and Composition |
Warriner |
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Sentence Structure |
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Unit Project |
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Unit IV:Dreams and Reality—stresses the relationship between an individual and his society as portrayed in various cultural periods. It also enriches the students’ understanding of classic writers and their works and the resulting influence they have made on their societies.
Title |
Author |
Page |
Genre |
American Born Chinese |
Yang |
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Graphic Novel |
Lost in the City |
Jones |
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Novel |
A Raisin in the Sun |
Hansberry |
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Drama |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickins |
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Novel |
Songlines |
Chatwin |
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Novel |
Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes |
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By the Waters of Babylon |
Benet |
500 |
Short Story |
There Will Come Soft Rains |
Bradbury |
534 |
Short Story |
from Nobel Lecture |
Solzhenitsyn |
587 |
Essay |
In Flanders Fields |
McCrae |
824 |
Poem |
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Vocabulary for the College Bound Student |
Levine |
187-268 |
Vocabulary |
Writing Projects |
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Writing |
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Unit Project |
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