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, interpretation, 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: Short Stories, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Compare and Contrast Paper
Vocabulary and Grammar: Using context clues, Parts of a Sentence / Basic Sentence Structure
Review of core literary terminology for fiction
Independent Reading: Choice of Fiction Groups of up to 5 choose from the following 7 novels: Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, The Other Wes Moor by Wes Moore, Border Crossing by Maria Colleen Cruz, or Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. Please note: these stories contain complicated, mature issues of identity, race, abuse, language, immigration, gender, politics, and so forth that behooves parental consideration.
Short Stories
Fiction-Lord of the Flies, or Fahrenheit 451
Trimester 2: The Crucible, Research Paper, Selected Nonfiction, A Small Place
Grammar: Clauses and Sentence Structures
Review of core literary terminology for non-fiction and and introduction to literary theory and rhetorical appeals
Reading of short pieces of non-fiction
Reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Independent Reading: Nonfiction
Trimester 3: Reading, Writing, and Analysis of Poetry, Julius Caesar, A Raisin in the Sun, Oral Interpretation
Literary terminology for Poetry and Drama
Poetry
Speaking: Oral Interpretation, Character Monologue
Grammar: Phrases
Independent Reading - Fiction: Challenge to read AP literature, Classics, Pulitzer/Nobel Prize
Submit your 2 Original Poems to Turnitin. These should be saved in one document.
To Submit your Final Draft go to: Turnitin.com and create a new account as a student. You will need an email address. Use an email that you want to get feedback sent to.
The Enrollment Key is: Nunnery
The Class ID is: 20355981
When uploading your writing, you must ensure that it falls under any of the file types listed below: Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) HTML (.html, htm) Microsoft Word (.doc) Plain text (.txt) PostScript (.ps) Rich Text Format (.rtf) WordPerfect (.wpd)
When you submit, you can change what you upload by selecting the drop-down menu and choosing:
Writing assignment Due by Monday, February 11 @ 2:30 PM: Create a document (preferably in Google Docs). The File name should be: First Name Initial, Last Name, Turnitin. So, SMendesTurnitin. Type or copy the following sentence into your document: I was able to successfully create a Turnitin.com account and submit a document to earn points. Your document should have your last name in a Header. And, you should have this following left aligned:
Your Name
Teacher Name
Course Name
Date
Focus on Introductions and Conclusions for the Second Draft Due Wednesday, February 6.
Focus on MLA Format: Sample MLA Paper for the Third Draft Due Friday, February 8.
Touch-up and polish your Final Draft Due Tuesday, February 12 @ 11:59 PM to Turnitin.com.
To Submit your Final Draft go to: Turnitin.com and create a new account as a student. You will need an email address. Use an email that you want to get feedback sent to.
https://turnitin.com/newuser_type.asp?lang=en_us
The Enrollment Key is: Nunnery
The Class ID is: 20355981
When uploading your writing, you must ensure that it falls under any of the file types listed below: Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) HTML (.html, htm) Microsoft Word (.doc) Plain text (.txt) PostScript (.ps) Rich Text Format (.rtf) WordPerfect (.wpd)
When you submit, you can change what you upload by selecting the drop-down menu and choosing:
Thesis Statements - Type Your name and thesis statement into this spreadsheet.
Thesis Statement Writing Workshop
Writing a Thesis Statement in 4 Steps
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Quoting Other Text
MLA (Modern Language Association)Documentation Tutorial
Presentation Outline. Presentations should be between 3 and 7 minutes.
Independent Reading Project Trimester Two
Please type-in information on your book choice HERE
Sample IRP - Made in Publisher
Independent Reading Book Sign-Up
Samples for Poetry Project - You may not use any poetry or analysis included here
Check-out the Hemmingway App. You can paste text into this app and find sentences that are hard to read, use of adverbs, passive voice, grade-level and other indicators of Readability that might help you improve your paper -- Hemmingway App
Here is an example of what the results look like.
Poetry Terms Review - These will appear on poetry test
Quotations and Citations Advice
MLA Outline for Research Paper
Share Group Presentations Here: rnunn@apps.district833.org
Non-Fiction Research Proposal Assignment
Template for Typing Summary of Article. Open this, make a copy or save with a new name, and then type your summary. Print it out and turn-in on Tuesday, January 10.
Non-Fiction Book List - This list is currently being built, but can provide a good place to start to look for a book as many WHS students have read and recommend these titles. The list can be sorted by Title, Author, Genre, Date of Publication, Length and so forth. A key component of the book you choose, is that you will have to take an idea, something that comes from your reading of the book you choose to research further to write an expository research paper. So, choose something that you are interested in and want to know more about; choose wisely.
Summer Reading