Department of Education

Luis Munoz Rivera High School

Utuado School District
English Program
Course Syllabus
Course Title:
Credits:
Text:

English 11th Grade Level

1 Credit
Timeless Voice, Timeless Themes. (2000). Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Academic Term: January 2015 May 2015

Course Hours: 7:30am 2:30pm, Monday-Friday
Office Hours: 10:10am - 11:00am /1:40pm 2:30pm
Teacher:
Jos M. Martinez Puig
E-mail:
josepuig3@gmail.com

Course Description:
This course is designed to help students to improve their Basic English skills. The student
progresses from listening skills to writing skills. The student will communicate, read, interpret,
and write using the Basic English language skills.
General Objectives:
As outcome of this course, students will
1. Become college and career ready through listening, speaking, reading, writing, and language
communication skills.
2. Feel comfortable expressing ideas, feelings, and opinions in English.
3. Develop a sense of success, security, and achievement as they learn to improve English language
skills.
4. Use English in a variety of real-life situations.
Course Evaluation Plan:

Class work activities

Homework
Assessments
Special Projects / Assignments
Essays / Short Compositions
Tests
Oral and Written Reports

 Quizzes
Thematic Content / Itinerary:
Unit 11.3: Persuasion (7 weeks)
In this unit, the student examines persuasion as a writing genre and understands its purpose and
strategies associated with it. The student reads, writes, and presents editorials and other
persuasive texts on a variety of social issues and learns to question while he/she reads as a
way to develop a position on a topic.
Unit 11.4: Its a Mystery (6 weeks)
In this unit, the student explores the elements of detective fiction as a reading genre through texts
and visual mediums. The student writes expository pieces based on what he/she reads,
compares the same mystery in text and film, and writes an original mystery short story
including the key genre elements. The student learns vocabulary related to detective
fiction and examines point of view and setting. Reading detective fiction aloud helps to
engage the reluctant reader.
Unit: 11.5: History Non-fiction (6 weeks)

In this unit, the student explores historical fiction and informational text and their relationship to
each other and to current events. The student completes a cross- curricular research
project using note-taking, analysis, writing, and oral presentations to connect what he/she
is learning in his/her history class to his/her English class. The student deepens his/her
understanding of an event in history and is able to talk about it in English.
Unit 11.6: Poetry (6 weeks)
In this unit, the student studies a variety of poems and poetic devices and styles to deepen his/her
understanding of the genre. The student understands, appreciates, discusses, interprets
and analyzes a variety of published poetry by well-known poets, peer-edits classmates
poems, and creates his/her own works of poetry to explore the genre and the writing
process. The student identifies and understands connotation, tone, theme, different poetic
structures and devices, and creates original poems using the forms and structures to
create his/her unique voice and develop and express his/her sense of identity.