Tenth Grade English

All sophomore students will be registered for English 10.

0121 English 10

• Grade Level: 10
• Credits Earned: 1.0
• Prerequisite: English 9
• NCAA Approved

Description: A core English course focused on development of analytical skills and contextual thinking. Students will work through a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts, gaining domain vocabulary in areas of literary analysis, multimedia composition, and rhetoric. Students will be assessed through multimedia compositions, project-based and inquiry methods, and a variety of writing tasks.

Major Topics or Themes: (additional topics may be covered)

• Literary Analysis
• Thematic and Tonal Analysis
• Critical and Cultural Contexts of Literature
• Compositions for Academic and Professional Purposes
• Rhetorical Analysis

State Course: 01002A000, English/Language Arts II

0123 English 10 Accelerated

• Grade Level: 10
• Credits Earned: 1.0
• Prerequisite: English 9
• NCAA Approved

Description: A survey course of World Literature, English 10AC teaches the same targets as English 10, but goes more in depth and uses some more complex texts to provide a challenge for students whose reading, writing, and speaking skill levels are already high. World War I and World War II, as well as other wars, appear in many course texts, and will provide a background for studying why and how authors choose to craft their texts, for analyzing rhetoric, for writing informatively in various ways, and for speaking confidently on a research topic.

Major Topics or Themes: (additional topics may be covered)

• Author’s Choices and the Art of Writing Informatively
• Reading with Rhetorical Choices in Mind and Speaking Articulately
• War, The Struggle between Good and Evil
• Major 20th Century Literary Movements and an Introduction to Philosophy

State Course: 01002A000, English/Language Arts II