Honors English 10
This is a rigorous literature-based course that covers a variety of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama that will prepare them for future advanced course. Students will be expected to be active in literary and rhetorical analysis, interpretion, and evaluation of literature, poetry, and drama that challenges their world view through discussion, journals, essays, projects, and group work. Students will also continue to develop effective academic writing skills and conventions (comparison essay, controlled research paper, on demand writing, and language usage), and speaking/listening abilities (introductory speeches, informative speeches, oral interpretation, and character monologue). Possible course units will be centered around, but not limited to, the following:
Trimester 1: The Kite Runner, Lord of the Flies, Compare and Contrast Paper, Fahrenheit 451
Vocabulary and Grammar: Using context clues, Parts of a Sentence / Basic Sentence Structure
Review of core literary terminology
Independent Reading: Choice of Fiction
Speaking: Bag Speech (an introductory speech)
Trimester 2: The Crucible, Literary Lens Research Paper, Selected Nonfiction, A Small Place
Grammar: Clauses and Sentence Structures
Introduction to rhetoric and rhetorical appeals
Review of core literary terminology for non-fiction and and introduction to beginning literary theory
Independent Reading: Nonfiction
Trimester 3: A Raisin in the Sun, Poetry: Reading, Writing, Analysis & Discussion, Julius Caesar
Poetry
Drama
Speaking: Oral Interpretation, Character Monologue
Grammar: Phrases
Independent Reading: AP literature, Classics, Pulitzer/Nobel Prize
Character Monologue - Final Project
Old AP Questions - AP Question 3 FRQs
Tri 3 IRP Book Choice: Complete this Form by Monday, May 16
Independent Reading Project Tri 3
Summer Reading & Major Works Data Sheet
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