english iv academic library 

English IV continues to build on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding.

Reading–reinforces reading comprehension skills by teaching students comprehension techniques for literary fiction, poetry, and drama, including discussion of common literary devices; shows students how to analyze, evaluate, and interpret a text; Writing–develops students’ writing skills by teaching about clauses and phrases in sentence structures; reviews common sentence and paragraph construction errors  
and methods for avoiding them; teaches Greek and Latin roots and prefixes to enhance vocabulary and spelling skills. Students will continue their own writing throughout the course expanding their abilities with more comprehensive material.

Download a copy of the ​English IV Course Overview. You will find the goals for the course and the grading components and the grading scale for all NFC Academy courses.
ENGLISH IV ONLINE
UNIT 1 - THE WORTH OF WORDS
UNIT 2 - THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
  1. Course Overview
  2. Roots and Affixes
  3. Word Elements
  4. Jargon and Acronyms
  5. Quiz 1: Word Study
  6. Expository Writing
  7. Paragraph Structure
  8. Essay: Writing a Paragraph  (Write a paragraph of at least 150 words, using one of your subtopic ideas from the lesson "Expository Writing" and the outline you wrote in the lesson "Paragraph Structure." You may go back into those lessons to review your work there or to print out or copy what you wrote. Because this is a first draft, don't worry about the "rules"—you will be correcting capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar in another revision. Just write, following your outline as well as you can.  Follow the directions associated with this assignment.)
  9. Coherence and Consistency in Writing
  10. Mechanics
  11. Spelling
  12. Quiz 2: Expository Writing
  13. Sentence Structure
  14. Dangling Modifiers and Parallelism
  15. Errors in Reference, Agreement, and Logic
  16. Diction
  17. Essay: Writing a Longer Essay  [Plan, write, and revise an essay.     Thesis statement. A thesis statement for a paper of several paragraphs is similar to a topic sentence in a paragraph. It has a controlling idea for the entire paper that is a judgmental statement needing clear, convincing support Outline. Writing an outline will help you write a paper that is well organized and communicates best your ideas. An example outline for a 600-word essay is given:  Write an essay. Using the given three steps for writing, write an essay of at least 600 words (not including the outline).]
  18. Quiz 3: Sentence Structure
  19. Documentation
  20. Works Cited
  21. Parenthetical Citation
  22. Documentation Review
  23. Test: The Worth of Words
  24. Alternate Test: The Worth of Words
  25. Reference
  1. Nouns and Pronouns
  2. Verbs and Verb Phrases
  3. Other Parts of Speech
  4. Quiz 1: Parts of Speech
  5. The Structure of Sentences
  6. The Parts of the Sentence
  7. Project: Sentence Patterns  (Write two original sentences for each of the listed seven sentence patterns)
  8. Quiz 2: Sentence Structure
  9. Methods of Subordination: Participles
  10. Gerunds and Infinitives
  11. Adverb and Adjective Clauses
  12. Noun Clauses
  13. Project: Variety in Writing  (Write at least 300 words on a topic of your choice. Develop each paragraph fully, using a variety of sentence patterns and proper subordination. Use each of the sentence patterns at least once. Use each of the verbal types and dependent clause types at least once.)
  14. Quiz 3: Methods of Subordination
  15. Test: The Structure of Language
  16. Alternate Test: The Structure of Language
  17. Reference
UNIT 3 - READING AND RESEARCH
UNIT 4 - LANGUAGE, GOD'S GIFT TO MAN
  1. Word Recognition: Drill One
  2. Identifying Main Ideas
  3. Word Recognition: Drill Two
  4. Opinions, Implications, and Inferences
  5. Essay: Using Details in Writing   (Use one of the listed topic sentences to write a well-developed paragraph of at least 150 words. Supply the specific details or examples that support the topic sentence you choose.)
  6. Quiz 1: Reading for Comprehension
  7. Phrase Recognition: Drill Three
  8. Finding Information in the Library
  9. Word Meaning: Drill Four
  10. Finding Information on the Internet
  11. Phrase Recognition: Drill Five
  12. Taking Effective Notes
  13. Project: Writing a Paper from Notes  (Write a paper (at least 400 words) using proper research and note-taking techniques (see "Taking Effective Notes"). Compile information about one of the following topics: photography as a hobby, the college I would like to attend, a career I would like to pursue, an automobile I would like to own, a place I would like to visit. In writing the paper, remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format. As usual, you are expected to use correct standard English in your paper. Revise and proofread carefully.)
  14. Quiz 2
  15. Test: Reading and Research
  16. Alternate Test: Reading and Research
  17. Reference
  1. Origin of Language
  2. Quiz 1: Origin of Language
  3. Grammar
  4. Structural Grammar
  5. Generative Grammar
  6. Quiz 2: Grammar
  7. Semantics
  8. Project: Semantics and Advertising  (For one full week pay close attention to the language used in advertising wherever you may see or hear it. Take down ten examples of advertising language that change the standard meaning or standard grammatical usage of a word. When you have found ten examples, choose the best five and write one paragraph for each example, explaining how the meaning or usage of language in the advertisement has been changed to fit the advertiser's purpose. The total length of your project should be at least 150 words.
  9. Project: Levels of Usage and Meaning  (Examine your own speech and writing carefully for a day or two. Notice what level of speech you use with your family, friends, boss, pastor, co-workers, teachers, and so on. If you need to, review the levels of speech found in the lesson "Semantics." Then write a paper (at least 250 words) describing the different levels of usage and meaning that you use in a day.)
  10. Quiz 3: Semantics
  11. Test: Language
  12. Alternate Test: Language
  13. Reference
UNIT 5 - MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
UNIT 6 - ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
  1. Early England
  2. Old English
  3. The Epic and Beowulf
  4. Elegies, Riddles, and Gnomes
  5. Essay: The Elegies  (Choose one of the options: 1. What Christian attitudes do you find reflected in the two elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer"? Quote from both works to support your points. Remember to document your quotes properly, using MLA format. This option should be an essay of 400-500 words. 2. Think of a ruin in or near your town (or one that you have visited). Try to describe it in such a way that all of the history, the life behind that ruin would be apparent to a reader. Reread "The Ruin" to get ideas. This option should have the same tone, description, and length as "The Ruin"—about 40 lines. Include an original title for your poem.)
  6. Quiz 1: Old English
  7. English Literature (1066-1400)
  8. Quiz 2: Early Middle English
  9. 14th Century Writers; Chaucer
  10. Chaucer's Language
  11. Canterbury Tales
  12. Essay: Character Study (Write a character analysis of one the characters from Canterbury Tales. Your finished essay should be at least 250 words long.)
  13. The Nun's Priest's Tale
  14. Response to The Nun's Priest's Tale
  15. Quiz 3: Fourteenth Century Literature
  16. Test: Medieval English Literature
  17. Alternate Test: Medieval English Literature
  18. Reference
  1. Elizabethan Songs
  2. Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney
  3. Sonnets: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne
  4. Translations and Prose
  5. Quiz 1: Elizabethan Poetry and Prose
  6. Elizabethan Drama
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Quiz 2: Elizabethan Drama
  9. Hamlet: Act I, i-ii
  10. Hamlet: Act I, iii-v
  11. Hamlet: Act II
  12. Hamlet: Act III
  13. Hamlet: Act IV
  14. Hamlet: Act V
  15. Quiz 3: Hamlet
  16. The Critical Essay
  17. Project: Preparing the Critical Essay  (In preparing to write a critical essay on Hamlet, (at least 700 words), you will need to follow the same series of steps that you would follow in writing any other exposition. You will complete the task of writing a critical essay in two parts. In this project, you will do the first part. The purpose of this project is to effectively lay the foundation for writing a critical essay on an aspect of your choice from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. This project is the first of two required to develop and write an essay.)
  18. Essay: Writing the Critical Essay (The purpose of this project is for you to demonstrate your ability to use the thesis statement and outline completed in the previous project to write a critical essay of at least 700 words (not including the outline) on the aspect of the play Hamlet that you have chosen. (This project is the second of two that are required to develop and write an essay.)
  19. Quiz 4: The Critical Essay
  20. Test: Elizabethan Literature
  21. Alternate Test: Elizabethan Literature
  22. Reference
UNIT 7 - 17th- AND 18th-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
UNIT 8 - ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN POETRY 
  1. The Historical Background of the Literature
  2. John Milton
  3. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
  4. Paradise Lost: Book I
  5. Paradise Lost: Book VII, Book XII
  6. John Bunyan
  7. Quiz 1: Milton and Bunyan
  8. Alexander Pope
  9. Jonathan Swift
  10. Quiz 2: Pope and Swift
  11. Samuel Johnson
  12. Oliver Goldsmith
  13. Essay: Swift and Goldsmith  (The purpose of this project is for you to write an essay based on the examination of the works of Jonathan Swift and Oliver Goldsmith. You are to demonstrate an understanding of their satire, in order to see similarities and/or differences. Using at least two current newspapers, news magazines, or television news programs, research current political and/or social issues in the U.S. or the world. Choose three or four issues to focus on. The editorial or opinion sections should be especially helpful. Compare the things either Swift or Goldsmith, or both Swift and Goldsmith, found that needed changing in their centuries to today's issues. What similar issues do we face today?  Write an essay (at least 500 words) that compares the issues of these two different times. Include your personal perspective on the issues and solutions offered for today's issues. Are they really issues that need attention as far as you are concerned? Are the solutions offered valid as far as you are concerned?)
  14. Quiz 3: Johnson and Goldsmith
  15. Test: 17th- and 18th-Century English Literature
  16. Alternate Test: 17th- and 18th-Century English Literature
  17. Reference
  1. Romantic Revolution
  2. Poetic Revolution
  3. Quiz 1: Romantic and Victorian Ages
  4. Romantic Poets: Wordsworth
  5. William Wordsworth: Other Poems
  6. Essay: Lessons from Nature (Although a Christian does not accept a pantheistic view of nature, he does delight in nature as a manifestation of God's wisdom, beauty, power, and goodness. In the New Testament, Jesus often referred to nature in His teaching. Find five parables in which Jesus relied on elements of nature (such as trees, seeds, and vineyards) to communicate His message or lesson. In the list of parables, indicate the subject, the writer, and the numbers of the chapter(s) and verse(s).)
  7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  8. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  9. Essay: Response to Guilt  (In the lesson on Lord Byron, you learned that the Byronic hero does not consider himself innocent. He broods over some unidentified and seemingly unforgivable sin in his past. Considering the world a "place of agony and strife" where he must "suffer" for this sin, the defiant and tormented hero turns in upon himself and gives way to moodiness and melancholy as he wanders from place to place in an attempt to escape himself and the world. This hero, however, takes a masochistic delight in his suffering. Thus, the Byronic hero is pleasantly, rather than desperately, miserable. Write a brief essay (at least 300 words) in which you compare the Byronic manner of facing guilt with what the Bible says about how Christians should deal with guilt. In particular, read I John 1:9 and Luke, Chapter 11, and explain the Christian approach to handling guilt caused by sin. Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format.)
  10. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  11. John Keats
  12. Essay: John Constable  (Write a brief essay (at least 300 words) in which you compare the Byronic manner of facing guilt with what the Bible says about how Christians should deal with guilt. In particular, read I John 1:9 and Luke, Chapter 11, and explain the Christian approach to handling guilt caused by sin. Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format. The major purpose of your report will be to indicate similarities in the priorities and theories of romantic artists and poets. Do not simply copy the resource material; type the report (at least 250 words) in your own words and style. In your research and writing, utilize the skills of effective reading and writing that you studied in earlier units this year. Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format.)
  13. Quiz 2: The Romantic Poets
  14. Victorian Variety
  15. Essay: Queen Victoria  (Write a summary of the life and reign of Queen Victoria. Do not simply copy the resource material; type the essay in your own words and style. In your research and writing, utilize the skills of effective reading and writing that you studied in earlier units. Your essay should be at least 250 words long. Use at least three different sources. Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format.)
  16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  17. Essay: Views of Nature  (Compare and contrast Romantic and Victorian views of nature. Using specific references from "In Memoriam" Lyric 56 and from "Tintern Abbey," contrast Tennyson's view of the relationship between man and nature with that of Wordsworth's in an essay of at least 250 words. Remember to document your sources properly, using MLA format.)
  18. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  19. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  20. Quiz 3: The Victorian Poets
  21. Test: Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  22. Alternate Test: Romantic and Victorian Poetry
  23. Reference
UNIT 9 - CREATIVE WRITING
UNIT 10 - REVIEW
  1. Fiction
  2. Poetry
  3. Quiz 1: Fiction and Poetry
  4. Project: Writing Descriptions  (Guided by the information given in Lesson 3, write a brief one-paragraph-description (at least six sentences in length) of each of the following items. Observe each item carefully before describing it. Try to use at least one metaphor per item: a. a shabby sofa, yard, or vehicle, b. a building or a park, c. an animal, d. a child.)
  5. Project: Character Sketch
  6. Narration and Style
  7. Essay: Inventing Characters  (Invent three characters, at least one of whom is a teenager. Write a character sketch of each. Write your character's names, ages, and most important character traits. Use these questions as you develop your character sketch: What details could I use to physically describe this person to a friend? What is unique about this person's behavior? How does this person talk? Does he speak with an accent? Is he well educated? What experiences or words used by this character give us a clearer picture of who he is? Remember, a person's speech is important in characterization. Your finished project should be at least 400 words long.)
  8. Essay: Writing a Short Story  (Plan, write, and revise a short story. Construct a plot outline. Be sure that your plot has a dilemma, at least one complication, a climax, and a resolution. Write a short story using the plot outline and the character sketches you have prepared in the earlier project. Use dialogue, narration, and description in developing the four short story elements. Briefly state the theme of your story. When a story has been completed, it should be reread carefully. Mechanical errors should be corrected and any inconsistencies or shortcomings noted. If you find that the plot does not flow smoothly, recheck your plot outline. Make sure that no steps were left out and that your story has no "loose ends." Be sure that the style of your story suits the subject matter. Tone should not clash with atmosphere. Check your characters' diction as carefully as you check your own to be sure that the dialogue is realistic, appropriate to the character, and easy to follow. Revise your story. Make any needed corrections on your rough draft. When you are certain that it meets all stylistic and technical requirements, recopy it neatly and turn it in.)
  9. Quiz 2: Writing the Short Story
  10. Writing the Poem
  11. Project: Writing A Poem  (You have learned about poetic forms, sound effects, figures of speech, meter, and metrical sets. You are now ready to write your own poem. Write a poem of at least eight lines using a set meter and rhyme scheme. You may, if you wish, attempt a sonnet, a villanelle, or a ballade; but you will probably find easier designing your own form. Quatrains of abab, cdcd or abcb, bcdb are one suggestion. Use at least one figure of speech (i.e., simile, metaphor) and one sound effect (i.e., internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance).
  12. Quiz 3: Writing Poetry
  13. Test: Creative Writing
  14. Alternate Test: Creative Writing
  15. Reference
  1. Origin and Form of Words
  2. Grammar and Semantics
  3. Reading and Literature Types
  4. Expository Writing
  5. Project: Expository Paragraph  (Choose a topic for an expository essay. Write the thesis sentence for the subject you chose. Write a paragraph introducing your topic. Remember the proper location for the thesis in the introductory paragraph. Check the paragraph carefully for unity, coherence, and mechanics.)
  6. Sentence Structure
  7. Sentence Errors
  8. Creative Writing
  9. Quiz 1: Language
  10. Medieval English Literature
  11. Beowulf and Medieval English History
  12. Middle English Literature
  13. The Canterbury Tales
  14. Elizabethan Literature
  15. Elizabethan Drama
  16. Hamlet
  17. Quiz 2: The Middle Ages and Renaissance
  18. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Literature
  19. Satire, Sense, and Sensibility
  20. Romantic Poetry
  21. The Victorian Era
  22. Quiz 3: 17th-19th-Century English Literature
  23. Test: Review
  24. Alternate Test: Review