Honors English 12

This course teaches skills for: using words well and continuing to develop vocabulary; developing thoughts and ideas logically so as to become an effective writer and speaker; discovering creative writing as a useful vortex for both expressing and understanding emotions; appreciating Poetry and Fiction, particularly in the Short Story genre; and learning the basic elements of stories and poems.

Students will learn the fundamental elements and various styles of stories and poems, how to interpret and present poetry, and how to write well, by reading great writers and imitating classic styles, through composition work and vocabulary practice and tests, writing creative stories and poems, and oral presentation exercises.

Students taking this course for Kolbe Honors (H) credit will have eight papers, a mid-term, and final exam each semester.  Additionally, core students should expect to have daily reading and minor weekly written assignments or quizzes.

Assignment due-dates and some grades are established by the parent.  To receive honors credit with Kolbe Academy, students must submit a number of designated assignments to Kolbe Academy for grading, usually exams and select papers.  The parent- and Kolbe-established grades are averaged to produce the final grade for the honors course. Alternatively, a student may enroll in the Self-Paced Plus© grading assistance program to receive additional grading assistance by a Kolbe Academy faculty or staff member on designated assignments in the course.  In this case, parents may still submit grades for the student to be averaged in with the required Kolbe-graded honors assignments, or they may use the teacher-graded materials only to receive credit.

• Vocabulary Workshop Level G, Sadlier-Oxford 
  
• Vocabulary Workshop Level G Teacher Manaual, Sadlier-Oxford
• The Art of the Short Story, Ed. Dana Gioia & R.S. Gwynn 
  
• The Menagerie of Marsepink, Claudio Salvucci, Arx Publishing 
  
• Writer’s Workshop, Gregory L. Roper 
  

Optional physical copies available for purchase for the following under the English “Optional Material” section in the Kolbe Bookstore (digital copies are provided with the self-paced course):

• Treasury of Poems, (BOOK),The Kolbe Oral Presentation Series, Vol. IV. Kolbe Academy Press
• Poetry: A Spoken Art, (CD) The Kolbe Oral Presentation Series, Vol. IV. Kolbe Academy Press (Included with Treasury of Poems.)

Note that this is the digital version of the homeschool course plan, which is found in the course’s associated Parent Group.  This course plan is built into the Schoology course for the student. 

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