English 11

WHRO is presently revising this course to meet the current Virginia Standards of Learning and to align with contemporary online learning pedagogies. The previous version of this course is available below to help meet instructional and curricular needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated content will be available in the future once our redesign process is complete.

Instructor Information

• Course Outline
• Assignment Checklist

Course Information

• Course Overview

Developmental Module

• Developmental Module

Module 1: English Essentials

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Tips for Success
• Topic 2: Reading Strategies
• Topic 3: The Writing Process
• Topic 4: MLA
• Topic 5: The Digital Portfolio
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 2: The Art of Persuasive Writing

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Crafting a Central Idea and Position for Persuasive Writing
• Topic 2: The Value of Prewriting and Organization
• Topic 3: Incorporating Evidence and Counterclaims
• Topic 4: Unity, Organization, Transitions, and Conclusions
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 3: The Influence of Faith in Colonial American Literature

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections to Colonial Writings
• Topic 2: Creation Myths and Archetypes
• Topic 3: Plain Style Rhetoric
• Topic 4: Using Allusions
• Topic 5: Figurative Language, Imagery, and Sound
• Topic 6: Emotional Appeals and Propaganda/Grammar Strand - Parts of a Sentence
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 4: Drama in American Literature

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - History of the Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, and Allegory
• Topic 2: Elements of Drama
• Topic 3: Exposition (Act One of The Crucible)
• Topic 4: Rising Action (Act Two of The Crucible)
• Topic 5: Climax (Act Three of The Crucible)
• Topic 6: Resolution (Act Four of The Crucible)
• Topic 7: Contemporary Connections - Thematic Recurrence
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 5: Stretching Limits in the Age of Reason

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - Writing With a Purpose in Mind
• Topic 2: Maxims and Aphorisms
• Topic 3: Persuasion and Logical Fallacies/Grammar Strand - Eight Sentence Patterns
• Topic 4: Fact vs. Reason
• Topic 5: Contemporary Connections - Speeches Past and Present
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 6: The Power of the Mind in the Romantic Era

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - What is Romantic Literature?
• Topic 2: Romantic Era Short Stories
• Topic 3: Poetical Elements
• Topic 4: Optimism in American Literature - Light Transcendentalists
• Topic 5: The Imaginative Psyche - Dark Transcendentalists
• Topic 6: Contemporary Connections - Literary Analysis/Grammar Strand - Usage Errors
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 7: Realism in the Family

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - Introduction to Realism
• Topic 2: Condition of Children
• Topic 3: Condition of Minorities
• Topic 4: Condition of Women/Grammar Strand - Sentence Errors
• Topic 5: Contemporary Connection - Social Injustice
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 8: Voices of Courage During Modernism

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - Modernism and Social Context
• Topic 2: Diction Choices - Expressions of Language
• Topic 3: Symbolism
• Topic 4: Motif and Theme
• Topic 5: Contemporary Connection - Your American Dream
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 9: Your Voice and the American Dream

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Prewriting – Your Topic and Research
• Topic 2: Prewriting – Your Thesis and Outline
• Topic 3: The Rough Draft
• Topic 4: Revising and Editing
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 10: Conflicting Ideologies

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - Symbolism and Imagism
• Topic 2: Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
• Topic 3: Other Poets of the Modern Era
• Topic 4: The Modernist Short Story
• Topic 5: Modernist Nonfiction
• Topic 6: Contemporary Connections - Different Points of View/Grammar Strand - Faulty Parallelism, Faulty Comparisons, and Wordiness
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Module 11: Contemporary Voices

• Module Overview
• Topic 1: Historical and Cultural Connections - Objectivity in the Media
• Topic 2: Biography and Autobiography
• Topic 3: Memoir as Nonfiction and Poetry
• Topic 4: Literary Journalism
• Topic 5: Contemporary Connections - The Feature Story
• Module Assessment
• Module Summary

Course Culmination

• The Digital Portfolio Submission