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English · Grade 12

Advanced Reading and Independent Inquiry

Learners open their senior year by reading challenging older prose from Francis Bacon's “Of Studies” (1625) and Ralph Waldo Emerson's “Self-Reliance” (1841). They paraphrase archaic syntax and vocabulary accurately, annotate an argument's moves (claim, concession, example, definition and qualification), generate factual, interpretive, evaluative and open inquiry questions, and keep an inquiry log that synthesizes ideas across texts.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 140 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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English · Grade 12

Literary Interpretation and Competing Readings

Learners treat interpretation as argument. Using Robert Frost's “The Road Not Taken” (1916) in full, with short excerpts from Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats and Edith Wharton, they analyze how ambiguity and figurative language open more than one meaning, weigh competing readings by how much of the text each explains, and write an interpretation that engages a competing reading. An optional honors-style lesson studies the startling simile that opens T. S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915).

  • 5 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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English · Grade 12

Rhetorical Choices and Public Argument

Learners analyze how public arguments work. They study satire through Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (1729) and a line of Mark Twain's mock advice, compare public-argument genres (op-ed, open letter, speech, policy brief) and the role of timing (kairos), evaluate John Stuart Mill's argument for free expression in On Liberty (1859), and identify four fallacies common in public debate: whataboutism, appeal to fear, loaded language and false balance. They finish by writing an op-ed for a defined audience.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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English · Grade 12

Research Design and Source Synthesis

Learners design research the way careful investigators do. They match questions to methods (secondary research, surveys, interviews, observation) and set a workable scope; evaluate study designs for sample size and representativeness, correlation versus causation, peer review and conflicts of interest; write annotated bibliography entries and a short literature review organized by theme; and plan ethical research with consent, privacy and honest attribution. An optional honors-style lesson critiques and redesigns a flawed invented study.

  • 5 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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English · Grade 12

Extended Analytical and Argumentative Writing

Learners write longer, more sophisticated essays. Responding to Henry David Thoreau's “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849, later called “Civil Disobedience”), they construct complex theses that concede and explain, sustain a line of reasoning across many paragraphs with clear sequencing and signposting, manage nuance with precise qualifiers and honest treatment of counterevidence, and plan and write both under time limits and through a full drafting process.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 155 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions
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English · Grade 12

Language, Style and Deliberate Revision

Learners study style as a set of deliberate choices. They analyze cumulative, periodic and balanced sentences and the rhythm they create; examine modernist techniques such as free indirect discourse and stream of consciousness in short excerpts from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) and James Joyce's “Araby” (1914); revise for emphasis, concision and cohesion using known-new order and verbs in place of nominalizations; and imitate a style while explaining their choices.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

Evaluate Media and Algorithmic Information

Learners examine how information reaches them today. They explain how search ranking and recommendation feeds select content and where those systems fall short (treating “filter bubble” claims as debated), evaluate AI-generated text and images, including invented facts and citations, analyze data claims and charts for cherry-picked ranges and totals that should be rates, and build a personal verification routine with attention to ethics.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

Practical, Academic and Professional Writing

Learners write for life beyond the classroom. They adapt purpose, audience and format across emails, memos, cover letters and résumés written for fictional people; apply plain-language principles such as putting the point first, using headings and lists and preferring active voice; write a personal statement that combines a specific story with reflection in an authentic voice; and learn the academic genres of the abstract and the proposal.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 150 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

Discussion, Debate and Oral Defense

Learners study the structure and thinking of formal debate and oral defense. They learn resolutions, burden of proof, constructive and rebuttal speeches and cross-examination; flow a debate and answer arguments by extending, turning and weighing impacts; ask and answer cross-examination questions fairly, using Theodore Roosevelt's “man in the arena” passage (1910) as a prompt; and prepare to defend a project by anticipating questions and acknowledging limits honestly. Speaking practice is optional and unscored.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 140 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

Creative and Comparative Writing

Learners read poems as writers. They analyze the sonnet, free verse and the dramatic monologue; compare William Blake's “The Tyger” (1794) and “The Lamb” (1789) and read Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (1609) against the love-poem conventions it mocks; write a creative imitation of Stephen Crane's or Walt Whitman's style; and explain their craft choices in a reflection. An optional honors-style lesson develops a comparative essay on the Blake pair.

  • 5 lessons
  • About 145 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

Curate and Reflect on a Writing Portfolio

Learners assemble a senior writing portfolio. They select and sequence pieces for a specific purpose and audience, write reflective introductions and revision memos that give evidence of growth, assess their own work against rubrics and set specific goals, and prepare the portfolio for publication with attention to format, accessibility, permissions and the privacy of people they write about.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 140 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions

English · Grade 12

A Senior Research and Communication Capstone

The senior capstone. Following a fictional student's project on why classmates avoid a free tutoring center, learners write a research proposal (question, rationale, method, sources, timeline), synthesize their own data with published research into an argument with honest limits, communicate findings to a non-specialist audience through a plain-language summary, a clear visual and a short talk plan, and prepare to defend and reflect on their work.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 160 min
  • Quiz: 10 questions