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Course Learning Outcomes

The main text for this course is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. There is a focus on poetry and students will have the opportunity to read several poems. 

Course Description

In 12th Grade English, Part 2, students will explore the course theme of Imagining the Future. This course is divided into three Units.

  • Unit 1 (Modules 1-4) focuses on Imagining the Future with Poetry. Students will read a variety of poems and write their poetry.

  • Unit 2 (modules 5-11) focuses on Imagining the Future with the novel Frankenstein. Students will read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which is a classic novel about a man whose fascination with science fiction creates a human-like creature, which also creates a complexity of family problems to be solved.

  • Unit 3: (Modules 12-15) focus on Imagining the Future with Real-World Writing.  

  • Module 16 will be the final module in which students will take a final exam and will also have the opportunity to claim their optional micro-credential skill.

The structure of each module in the course includes:

Three main sections are referred to as "lessons" so students can monitor their time. They are as follows:

  1. Literacy Skills and Strategies. This is where students will learn how to be expert readers, writers, and thinkers around literature. 

  2. Application and Written Assignments. Most of the written assignments for submission will be in this section. Sometimes an assignment is out of order, simply because it needs to occur before the next concept is taught. This section might also include a quiz or a survey quiz assignment (see below for an explanation). 

  3. English Skill Enrichment Focus. These will be vocabulary, reading fluency, writing fluency, grammar, sentence structure, etc. activities for students to learn English skills. These skill assignments are a fun way to meet the standards for English and students often have choices about what they complete and how. 

Course Materials

With one exception, the textbooks for this course are inexpensive Dover Thrift Editions. The one exception is the Beowulf text. The texts are listed below by unit number, which is the order in which you should study them. You will note that unit 3 has two texts.

  1. Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel; published by Penguin.

  2. Great Sonnets, edited by Paul Negri; published by Dover.

  3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Dover. Lyric Poems, by John Keats; Dover.

  4. Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Dover.

  5. The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories, by Rudyard Kipling; Dover.

  6. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde; Dover.

  7. A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, by Robert Frost; Dover.

  8. Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw; Dover.

Other than these books, all you will need is a quiet place to read and a block of time sufficient to get the job done. You must realize that reading involves more than looking at the words; it demands reflection, questioning, and projecting. Hopefully, the structure of each unit will encourage and assist you to do so.

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Assignments

There are several assignments in this course. Students will often have choices within these assignments. If assignments are to be submitted in the module, these submissions will be listed on the Module Overview page. There is a lot of thinking and processing required by students to personalize this course and get the most out of it. Most of the assignments require students to think through what they are reading or learning and fill in graphic organizers with specific questions about the content. Some graphic organizers may be in Canvas as student-annotated notes and can be filled out right on the Canvas page and submitted. But students can choose the best method for them and they may download the graphic organizer to their Google Drive as a Word document and save it and then submit it when it is due. 

There are some assignments in the form of a short quiz. All of these are open notes, open books. They relate to the material on that page of the module. 

Students communicate using writing in a variety of formats: visual, pictures, PowerPoint or Loom presentations, written essays, etc. Students will have the opportunity to submit assignments in a variety of ways. There are always choices to make in the assignments. Students will write short paragraphs, and learn how to write an argumentative essay on a Frankenstein theme and this will be due in Module 11. 

There is also an English Skill Enrichment Focus at the end of each module. These lessons will focus on specific English skills such as vocabulary, reading fluency, writing fluency, grammar, sentence structure, etc. These skill assignments are a fun way to meet the standards for English and students often have choices about what they complete and how. 

NOTE: Several assignments have "turnitin" set for flagging plagiarism and will provide students with feedback AFTER their assignments have been graded. 

Content Guides

There are content guides in this course that will be submitted at the end of each UNIT (modules 4, 11, and 15). The purpose of these guides is to scaffold students as they read the pages and apply the principles taught. The notes will help prepare them to be successful with their assignments and written papers. 

MidCourse Quiz

This computer-graded quiz will cover the material up to the mid-course quiz. The questions on the midcourse quiz will be similar in format to the questions on the final exam.

Final Exam

Students must pass the final exam to earn credit for the course. 

Exams

You will complete one final exam for this course. See the Exam Preparation page for details.

The final exam consists of 100 multiple choice questions.

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Grading

Your grade in this course will be based on these assignments and exams:

* You must pass the final exam with at least a 60% to earn credit for the course.

Assignment or Exam Grading Percent of Total Grade
Skill Assignments (Focus: Communicate Using Writing) Teacher-graded
Complete/Incomplete 		25%
Regular Written Assignments + English Skill Enrichment Assignments Teacher-graded
Complete/Incomplete 		35%
Content Guides (1 for each unit) Complete/Incomplete 30%
Midcourse Quiz + Final Exam (1) Computer-graded 10%

Grade Scale

Your letter grade is calculated according to these percentages.

A 93% - 100%
A- 90% - 92%
B+ 87% – 89%
B 83% - 86%
B- 80% - 82%
C+ 77% - 79%
C 73% - 76%
C- 70% - 72%
D+ 67% - 69%
D 63% - 66%
D- 60% - 62%
F (fail) 0% - 59%

Getting Help

Please use the help menu in this course to contact Academy of America or your instructor. You can find information about tutoring available to Academy of America students on the Tutoring website.

The Resources page offers a wide variety of services to support you:

  • Academic success skills coaching such as time management, study skills, test preparation, motivation, and more.

  • Course-specific support that includes live tutoring and on-demand resources.

Come find out how we can help you achieve your goals.

Course Policies

For information about how long you have to complete the course, resubmitting assignments, retaking exams, and other questions, please see Course Policies.

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