APPLIED AMERICAN LITERATURE B

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will survey major American works and authors and provide writing experiences related to literature and work place settings. Applied grammar, vocabulary, listening and speaking will be an integral part of this course.

  1. WRITING
    1. Multi paragraph essays
      1. Persuasion/argumentation
      2. Definition
    2. Journal entries
    3. Business writing
      1. Resumes
      2. Letters of application
      3. Letters of reply
      4. Forms, applications
  1. READING/LITERATURE
    1. Literary movements
      1. Realism
      2. Regionalism
      3. Naturalism
      4. Modernism
      5. Imagism
      6. Harlem Renaissance
      7. Post-modernism
    2. Literary terms
    3. Background of literary movements
    4. Parallel reading

III. USAGE/GRAMMAR

    1. Capitalization rules
    2. Punctuation rules
    3. Sentence structure
    4. Tense
    5. Pronoun usage
    6. Parallel structure

IV. LANGUAGE/VOCABULARY

  1. Words from literary selections
  2. Words from vocabulary program

V. RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY

    1. Research report
    2. On-line search
    3. Research skills
      1. Paraphrasing
      2. Documentation
    4. Writing lab

VI. SPEAKING/LISTENING

    1. Class discussions
    2. Individual presentations
    3. Group presentations

       

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