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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - GRADE 12 REQUIREMENTS

PORTFOLIO  
Creative writing Critical Review (research paper)
Compare and contrast essay Evaluation and persuasion
Persuasive essay Expository essay
First and third person essay End of year reflection
First person narrative  

NOVELS/DRAMA  
Novel Drama
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte		 Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

Grammar/Language
The following terms and usage skills must be introduced; however, students are required to know the terminology and use correctly all other grammatical terms and skills listed in the Glossary of Terms:
  1. Connotation  
  2. Denotation  
  3. Diction (The levels of language and the choice of words)  
 
  • a. Dialect
 
  4. Historical Changes in Conventions of Grammar and Usage  
  5. Pronouns  
 
  • a. Definite
 
 
  • b. Feminine
 
 
  • c. Indefinite
 
 
  • d. Intensive
 
 
  • e. Masculine
 
 
  • f. Neuter
 
 
  • g. Normative
 
 
  • h. Objective
 
 
  • i. Person - first, second or third - singular or plural
 
 
  • j. Possessive
 
 
  • k. Reflexive
 
 
  • l. That-Which-Who
 
 
  • m. Who vs. Whom
 
  5. Word Origins  
 
  • a. Historical events of developments
 
  6. Word Relationships