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Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on comparative biography, this guide provides the teacher with strategies to aid students in examining biography from "Plutarch's Lives" and Cellini's "Autobiography" to Nabokoc's "Speak, Memory." Special emphasis is placed on comparison of biographies of the same person and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
Developed for a high school unit on special occasion speeches, this guide is designed to help students learn the eulogy, the tribute, and the after-dinner, introduction, nomination, and acceptance speeches. Performance objectives are listed along with a rationale for the course and its content. A section entitled "Teaching Strategies"…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Instruction, Language Arts
McDowell, Helen – 1974
This curriculum guide contains outlines for short courses in poetry, prose narrative, the personal essay, and the short story. Each outline lists objectives, the content emphasized, class activities, means of evaluating student performance, and the length of time for the short course. The last section of the guide presents the requirements for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Course Objectives, Creative Writing
Wilson, Karen P. – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on discussion and debate, this guide is designed to help students learn the elements of good discussion and informal debate in a classroom atmosphere emphasizing the democratic process. Performance objective for the course include compiling information for classroom discussions and informal debates,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
This guide provides the teacher with strategies to aid students in examining five representative plays by Bernard Shaw and in comparing his comedy with the comic art of Oscar Wilde, Richard Sheridan, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. Performance objectives include isolating elements which pertain to the life and times of Shaw, delineating…
Descriptors: Comedy, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Drama
Wilmington Public Schools, MA. – 1974
This curriculum guide outlines a multiphased elective English program for juniors and seniors in the Wilmington (Massachusetts) high schools. The alternative elective English courses are designed to increase academic achievement while allowing students to select courses on the basis of personal needs, interests, and future expectations. The five…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
McFarland, Roberta T. – 1973
J.E.B. Stuart High School moved into the minicourse elective program five years ago from an anthology-survey oriented English curriculum. The students are grouped into two levels, one offering minicourses for eleventh and twelfth graders and the other offering minicourses for ninth and tenth grade students, with some courses open to all of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elective Courses
Kenzel, Elaine; Williams, Jean – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on point of view in literature, this guide is designed to help students develop an understanding of point of view and to increase their sensitivity to different points of view in their own writing as well as in the writing of others. Performance objectives are listed which include: having students…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1971
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the Russian novel, this guide is designed to give students the opportunity to become familiar with the major works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevski. Performance objectives for the course include studying the general facets of 19th century Russian culture and history, analyzing the novels of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Instruction, Instructional Materials
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1973
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on improving sentence structure and variety, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies to aid students in learning to use sentence variety through a study of phrases, clauses, types of sentences, and transitional elements. Course objectives are listed along with a rationale for the course…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the romantic hero, this guide contains teaching strategies for a study of the characteristics of the romantic hero as he appears in various literary selections. Several major literary works are analyzed and discussed in comparison with popular culture heroes, and the portrayal of the romantic hero in…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Lampeter-Strasburg School District, PA. – 1973
This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline for a basic vocabulary development course. The guide includes a list of eleven course objectives; an outline of the content and concepts to be studied in the basic vocabulary course; a description of the vocabulary, definitions of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Hargraves, Richard – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on existentialism, this guide is designed to help students examine the philosophy and life style of the existentialist. Performance objectives for the course include defining the human capability of choice, analyzing existential works that reflect attitudes of philosophical disorientation and literary…
Descriptors: Contemporary Literature, Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Instruction
Hargraves, Richard – 1971
Developed for a high school unit on the age of Milton, this guide is designed to examine the dominant literary modes of thought expressed in Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," Milton's "Comus,""Paradise Lost," and "Paradise Regained," and John Donne's metaphysical poetry. Performance objectives are listed along…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Instruction, Instructional Materials