English 2 (Accelerated)

  • LITERATURE
  • WRITING
  • VOCABULARY
  • GRAMMAR
  • POETRY
  • Common Core

Semester 1

Grading Period 1 (Renaissance)

The Decameron (excerpts)

Giovanni Boccaccio

[1353]

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

[1593]






Grading Period 2 (17th-Century – excerpts)

Holy Bible (excerpts)

King James Version

[1611]

Don Quixote (excerpts)

Miguel de Cervantes

[1605]

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

[1729]






Grading Period 3

Gulliver's Travels (excerpts)

Jonathan Swift

[1726]

Candide

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

[1759]

Semester 2

Grading Period 4 (19th-Century – excerpts)

Frankenstein

(Mary Shelley)

OR

Pride & Prejudice

(Jane Austen)


Oliver Twist

(Charles Dickens)

OR

Madame Bovary

(Gustave Flaubert)

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle)

OR

Dracula

(Bram Stoker)

Grading Period 5 (First Half of 20th-Century)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

[1927]

Animal Farm

George Orwell

[1939]

Grading Period 6 (Cold War Era)

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

[1954]

Inherit the Wind

Lawrence & Lee

[1955]