NORDHEIM HIGH SCHOOL
500 N. BROADWAY
Nordheim, TX 78141
MRS. MOY---English IV---12th‎ grade
1st six weeks’ syllabus (08/‎13/ý2025-09/19/2025)
Unit 1-Forging a Hero (How important are heroes to the world?)

“Beowulf” (Epic Poem)
*Read and Discuss

"Beowulf is Back" by James Parker
*Comprehension Questions
*Close Read
*Concept Vocabulary

Poetry
"To Lucasta, on Going to the War" by Richard Lovelace
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
"The Song of the Mud" by Mary Borden
*Comprehension Questions
*Analysis and Discussion
*Author's Craft (diction and tone)

"Arthur Becomes King of Britain” from “The Once and Future King" by T.H. White
*Questions
*Close Read and Discuss
*Concept Vocabulary
*Literary/Text Elements (plot structures, patterns of three, and archetypes)

"Morte d' Authur" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
*Analysis and Discussion
*Concept Vocabulary
*Author's Craft (figurative language, simile, epic simile)
*Multiple Choice

"Defending Nonviolent Resistance" by Mohandas K. Gandhi
*Analysis and Discussion
*Research Presentation
*Vocabulary

Poetry- The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
*Major writing assignment

"Speech to Her Troops at Tilbury" by Queen Elizabeth I
*Speech writing practice
1st Novel- "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

Video Presentation- “A Knight’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer
*Notes
*Character Analysis
*Major Test Grade

*Twelve Daily Grades per six weeks
*Two Major Test Grades per six weeks
*Quizzes (anytime)

Contact Information
Mrs. Dawn Moy
email- dmoy@nordheimisd.org
phone- (361) 938-5211 
 Ext. 303

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