Playing with Words

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Playing with Words
36 weeks
Modules in this section
1. Wake Up and Dream
This module describes various means of
communication and language art.
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2. Dreaming Through Literature
This module analyzes and discusses elements of
characterization, plot, setting, conflict, and
themes of literary works.
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3. Dream About Drama
This module introduces William Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream, which is one of
Shakespeare's happier comedies.
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4.Dream of the Greek Myth
This module looks at the influence of ancient
Greek culture in English literature.
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5. Dream Characterization
This module analyzes literary characterization.
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6. Promote a Dream
This module introduces the elements of persuasion.
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7. Follow Your Fancy
This module introduces visual ways to brainstorm
on ideas for research.
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8. Assess Your Aspirations
This module concludes English II studies by
testing communication and language art skills.
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Module 1 Wake Up and Dream
8 weeks
In this module you will study various means of
communication oral, visual, electronic, and
textual as you hone your language arts skills.
Topics in this Module
1. Plan your Pace
2. Get Going With Grammar
5. Analyze Antigone
This topic explains organization, time
management, and planning.
This topic deals with ways to improve your
writing and communication skills.
This topic enhances your literary analysis skills
to prepare for more advanced studies in
literature.
3. Vitalize Your Vocabulary
4. Travel the Passages
This topic makes you understand your Reader's Log
project.
This topic demonstrates a thoughtful process to
increase your word power.
Assignments
You will receive 15 points for filling this chart
and submitting it at the end of the module.
Download this assignment outline and upload it
once you have finished this module
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Wake Up and Dream Plan Your Pace
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have
exactly the same number of hours per day that
were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
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How important is pace in your learning
program? Your pace determines your progress on a
weekly basis. One of the benefits of learning
online is that you have flexibility to determine
your own schedule. One of the challenges, though,
is adhering to the schedule. To paraphrase the
quotation above, success is obtained by
constantly striving towards your purpose, which
is to improve your language arts skills and earn
credit in English II. You are going to make some
very important decisions about your pace in
English II. All your grades are affected by your
ability to keep pace. The pace chart options are
used in the traditional school environment. If
your school is on a block schedule or if you are
taking the course in the summer, other pace chart
options may be available for you in the Course
Information area.
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Wake Up and Dream Plan Your Pace
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Click each pace option to learn more about it.
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Pace Options
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Traditional
Extended
Accelerated
If you select the extended pace option to
complete your assignments, your facilitator will
design your individual pace. You need to submit a
petition for extended pace documenting approval
from your school guidance counselor. For more
information about extended pace, check the Course
Information area.
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Wake Up and Dream Plan Your Pace
Activity 1.01 Plan Your Pace
Score Details

• 25 points - An "A" assignment is complete and
  includes
• A sentence that declares your pace
• A sentence that shows your understanding of the
  Drop Policy (See Course Information area)
• A schedule that shows when you will complete
  each activity in Module 1 by the appropriate date
  (e.g. Students on a traditional pace will plan to
  complete Module 1 in 3 1/2 - 4 weeks.)

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Wake Up and Dream Get Going With Grammar
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Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson You find the
present tense and the past perfect. Unknown
Grammar is a branch of linguistics dealing with
the form and structure of words and their
interrelation in sentences. The study of grammar
reveals how language works. Careful grammar
study is a viable way to improve your writing
skills. We all realize that effective written
communication skills are key to achieving your
dreams. In this lesson you will examine your
own grammar skills and set some goals for
improving your writing abilities. Your
assignment for 1.04 is to take a grammar practice
test to examine your grammar proficiency at this
time. Click here for Activities. Further
Reading http//www2.oiuw.oiu.ac.jp/barrow/reading
.html http//englishplus.com/grammar/
The Greek grammarian Dionysius Thrax wrote the
book Art of Grammar, upon which the grammar of
many Greek, Latin, and other European languages
was based.
Score Details
Vocabulary viable.
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Wake Up and Dream Get Going With Grammar
Activity 1.04 Get Going With Grammar
Score Details
50 points Please submit your grammar test
score and your grammar goals for the year.
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Vitalize Your Vocabulary
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save
the situation. Goethe
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The power of reading is to ameliorate your
communication skills. As an English teacher, one
can usually tell which students are "readers."
Being a reader means often coming into contact
with lots of words, which is a great way to
improve your vocabulary. This goes to say that a
large vocabulary is noticeable.
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Think about a rainbow. The more hues contained in
an arc, the more colorful and grand it is. The
more words contained in your vocabulary, the
richer and more impressive your verbal skills
are. The best way to increase your vocabulary is
to experience words in context (used with other
words). Accordingly, during this course you will
gather words as you see them in action.
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Click here to play a word game.
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Vitalize Your Vocabulary
Activity 1.05 Vitalize Your Vocabulary
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Click the correct word to complete the sentence.
Click Next for a new sentence.
Court is now in session. session
cession
Next
You are right! Session means a meeting of a
legislative or judicial body for the purpose of
transacting business. Cession means a
ceding or surrendering, as of territory to
another country by treaty.
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Travel the Passages
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Anyone who says they have only one life to live
must not know how to read a book. Unknown
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Reading is often the only viable gateway to
exotic places, interesting people, and distant
times. It is like daydreaming. Not only does
delving into a book allow you to explore other
worlds, but it also develops countless
communication skills. Accordingly, you will read
one of the novels provided below and will
complete a reader's log project about the novel.
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The 20th-century poet and critic T. S. Eliot
wrote, Dickenss characters are real because
there is no one like them.
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Travel the Passages
Activity 1.08 Travel the Passages
Score Details
50 points An "A" response is complete and has
the following characteristics Your response
is 1/2 - 1 page in length and is in two complete
paragraphs Your response is titled with the
date(s) and the pages read (e.g. Sept. 1-3/
Pages 1-39) Your response meets the criteria of
an "A" quality job.
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Analyze Antigone - Honors Only - H1
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One learns by doing a thing for though you think
you know it, you have no certainty until you
try. Sophocles
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Antigone is the product of incest, born of
Oedipus' famous marriage to his own mother. Her
two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fought a
civil war over their father's throne, and killed
one another in battle. Eteocles was buried in a
state funeral but Polynices was rotting outside
the city walls. Creon, Antigone's uncle, and the
new king of Thebes, condemned Polynices as a
traitor and forbade his burial. This was a
desperate attempt to rally the city on a single
side and stop the cycle of bloodshed. But
Antigone couldn't leave her beloved brother
unburied. This is the harrowing background to
Sophocles' great tragedy, written half a
millennium before the New Testament.
Read Antigone by Sophocles from the Internet
Classics Archive.
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Analyze Antigone - Honors Only -- H1
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Activity 1.10 Analyze Antigone
100 points for Conflict Log and 100 points for
Major Works Data Sheet. An "A" major works data
sheet is complete and shows an advanced
understanding of literary concepts. Resources
used to find information are cited on the work
sheet.(The Conflict Reader's log is also worth
100 points)