English 8 Syllabus Mr. Shelton 2009-2010
QUARTER 1
Grammar: Owl English Handbook
Chapter 1: Parts of Speech and Word Functions.
Chapter 2: Form and Function of Clauses and Phrases
Chapter
3: Sentence Types, Run-on Sentences,
Sentence Fragments
Chapter 11: Composition
Appendix A: Word Lists
Appendix B: Commonly
Misspelled Words
Short
Stories: 21 Great Stories
Poe, “The Cask of
Amontillado”
Doyle, “The Adventure of
the Speckled Band”
Poe, “The Tell-tale
Heart”
Bradbury, “There Will
Come Soft Rains”
Dunsany, “The Two Bottles
of Relish”
Composition:
Character Analysis of
Smithers in Dunsany story
Rewrite of Smithers
Character Analysis
Book–Report Character
Analysis
Short-Story Essay on
Literature Test
QUARTER 2
Grammar: Owl
English Handbook
Chapter 4: Punctuation
Chapter 5: Agreement
Chapter 11: Composition
Appendix B: Commonly
Misspelled Words
Short
Stories: 21 Great Stories
Saki, “Tobermory”
Bryan, “So Much
Unfairness of Things”
Bierce, “An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge”
Thurber, “The Secret Life
of Walter Mitty”
London, “To Build a Fire”
Sonnets: Sonnets Handout
Shakespeare, “Shall I
Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
Spenser, “One Day I Wrote
Her Name upon the Strand”
MacLeish, “The End of the
World”
Keats, “On First Looking
into Chapman’s Homer”
Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Owen, “Anthem for Doomed
Youth”
Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”
Robinson, “The Sheaves”
Composition:
Book-Report Character
Analysis and Character Analysis of Stewart Wilkinson in Bryan story
Essay on Sonnet Test
Essay on Short-Story Test
Essay on Final
Examination
QUARTER 3
Grammar: The Owl English Handbook
Chapter 6: Verbs
Chapter 7: Pronouns
Chapter 8: Modification
Appendix B: Commonly
Misspelled Words
Appendix C: Principal
Parts of Irregular Verbs
Drama: Sophocles I
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Composition:
Comparison/Contrast Character Analysis of Short Stories
Book-Report
Comparison/Contrast Character Analysis
Essay on Drama Test
QUARTER 4
Grammar: The Owl English Handbook
Chapter 8: Modification
Chapter 9: Spelling
Chapter 10: Other
Conventions
Novel: To Kill a Mockingbird
Composition:
Book-Report Essay on
Tragic Hero in Antigone
Character Analysis of
Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird
Essay on Novel Test
Essay on Final
Examination