Grade 12
Grade 12 English IV / AP English Literature
9 units and 45 learning lessons. This is the outline a Grade 12 student works through in English IV / AP English Literature — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Grade 12 English IV / AP English Literature
OHM School · Grade 12
English IV / AP English Literature
9 units · 45 lessons
It opens with British and World Classics and closes with Language and Style.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 9
British and World Classics
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Close Reading a Classic Text
- 2Historical and Cultural Context
- 3Reading a British Novel
- 4Irony and Satire
- 5Structure and Resolution
Unit 2 of 9
Shakespearean Tragedy
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Reading Macbeth
- 2Ambition and Guilt
- 3How Shakespeare Develops Character and Action
- 4Interpreting Macbeth in Performance
Unit 3 of 9
Poetry Interpretation
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Poetic Form and Structure
- 2Interpreting Ambiguity in Poetry
- 3Romantic and Victorian Poetry
- 4Hyperbole and Paradox
Unit 4 of 9
Advanced Critical Literary Theory
2 lessons
Lessons
- 1Introduction to a Critical Lens
- 2Comparing Critical Lenses
Unit 5 of 9
Reading Informational Texts
10 lessons
Lessons
- 1Evidence and Ambiguity in Nonfiction
- 2Complex Central Ideas
- 3Ideas and Events That Interact
- 4Key Terms and Their Development
- 5Evaluating Structure in Argument
- 6Powerful Rhetoric
- 7Multiple Sources for a Question
- 8Reasoning in Seminal U.S. Texts
- 9Foundational Documents
- 10Reading Nonfiction Independently
Unit 6 of 9
Argument and Research
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1College-Level Arguments
- 2Explaining Complex Ideas
- 3Research Projects
- 4Evaluating and Integrating Sources
- 5Evidence for Literary Analysis
Unit 7 of 9
Capstone Writing
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Planning the Capstone Piece
- 2Narrative and Personal Writing
- 3Drafting and Revising the Capstone
- 4Publishing and Responding to Feedback
- 5Writing Routinely
- 6Presenting the Capstone
Unit 8 of 9
Speaking and Listening
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Leading Discussions
- 2Sources for Decisions
- 3Evaluating Rhetoric
- 4Digital Media and Speaking Style
Unit 9 of 9
Language and Style
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Contested Usage
- 2Conventions and Spelling
- 3Style in Context
- 4Word Meanings
- 5College Vocabulary
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered9 units and 45 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of English IV / AP English Literature in Grade 12, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Grade 12 student would work through today.
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