LAN 1100: English 11

05/01/2025 to 05/30/2026 • Modified 04/28/2025

Course Description

This year-long course will equip students to become more mature writers who are able to clearly and properly express themselves through academic and creative writing. Students will dig far beyond the surface meaning of a text and see the purpose, creativity, and significance of various types of literature. The literary focus is on numerous periods of American Literature in poetry, short stories, personal diaries, nonfiction essays, a novel, and drama. Students will develop an argumentative research paper. Students are guided with biblical truths to develop the skills necessary to honor God through excellence in the written and spoken word.

Next Start Date*

Next Monday

Program Restrictions*

ESD: Elementary School Diploma (ESDP-ESD-D) Excluded
MSD: Middle School Diploma (MSDP-MSD-D) Excluded

Prerequisite Requirements*

Any of the following:

All of the following:
- LAN 1001 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1002 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
or
All of the following:
- LAN 1001 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1005 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1006 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
or
All of the following:
- LAN 1002 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1003 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1004 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
or
All of the following:
- LAN 1003 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1004 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1005 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
  and
- LAN 1006 previously completed with a minimum grade of D
or
LAN 1000 previously completed with a minimum grade of D

High School Diploma Requirements*

Contributes 1 credit to LUOA – English, English Requirement.

Schedule

Module 1: Course & Theme Introductions: What Is an American? Moralistic (& Judgmental)

Week 1: Theme and Writing Introductions
Week 2: Rhetorical Devices with John Smith and Anne Bradstreet
Week 3: Writing Review, the Thesis Statement, and the Outline
Week 4: Essay Writing; the Plight of Native Americans
Week 5: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 2: What Is an American? Revolutionary (& Rebellious)

Week 6: Benjamin Franklin and Patrick Henry
Week 7: Thomas Paine, Chief Cornplanter, and Benjamin Banneker
Week 8: Style; College and Job Applications
Week 9: Theme Conclusion; Application Submission; Quarter Exam

Module 3: What Is an American? Self-Reliant (& Arrogant) & the Argumentative Research Paper

Week 10: Introduction to Argumentative Research Paper; Irving, Poe; Thesis Statement
Week 11: Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman; Research Paper
Week 12: Argumentative Research Paper
Week 13: Research Paper Writing and Rough Draft
Week 14: Native American Stories, Douglass, and Dickinson
Week 15: Theme Conclusion and Argumentative Research Paper Final Draft

Module 4: What Is an American? Conﬁdent (& Disillusioned)

Week 16: Memoirs and Short Stories
Week 17: Short Stories
Week 18: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing; Quarter Exam

Module 5: What Is an American? Socially Caring (& Socially Insensitive)

Week 19: Theme Introduction; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Week 20: To Kill a Mockingbird, Continued
Week 21: To Kill a Mockingbird, Continued
Week 22: To Kill a Mockingbird Conclusion; Letter from Birmingham Jail
Week 23: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 6: What Is an American? Realistic (& Fantastical)

Week 24: Theme Introduction; American Drama
Week 25: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Week 26: Nonfiction Essays
Week 27: Theme Conclusion; Quarter Exam

Module 7: What Is an American? Global (& Individualistic)

Week 28: Theme Introduction and Global American Writing
Week 29: Global American Writing, Continued
Week 30: Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle
Week 31: Enchanted Air, Continued
Week 32: Enchanted Air; Theme Conclusion

Module 8: What Is an American? Investigative (& Convinced)

Week 33: Introduction to The Case for Christ: “Examining the Record”
Week 34: The Case for Christ: “Analyzing Jesus”
Week 35: The Case for Christ: “Researching the Resurrection”
Week 36: The Case for Christ Conclusion; Culmination Project; Quarter Exam

*Course specifics are tentative and subject to change each year. For the most current information, please refer to the Course Registration Tool.