Honors Language Arts 12

Students examine major works of literature organized into thematic units. Each unit contains poetry, short stories, and a novel that revolve around the theme for the unit. Themes include the self, relationships, alienation, choice, and death. As students read these works, they have the opportunity to reflect on these important themes by writing in multiple modes and creating cross-disciplinary projects.

As an Honors course, emphasis will be placed on additional reading and writing project-based instruction. Students will integrate the 6-Traits of Writing (i.e., ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions) to all of their writing.

Semester A

Module 1 – Creating the Self
Module 2 – Relationships
Module 3 – Alienation
Module 4 – Choices and Decisions
Module 5 – Jane Eyre

Semester A Syllabus

Semester B

Module 1 – Literature of North America
Module 2 – The Literature of Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean
Module 3 – The Literature of Europe
Module 4 – Hamlet

Semester A Syllabus

In this course, you are required to read two novels from the You-Choose list in addition to the works that are listed as required reading below.

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Semester A)
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Semester B)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Semester B)
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Semester B)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Semester B)

You-Choose Novels:

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Othello by Julius Lester
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley