Grade 10

❔Essential Question: What do our possessions reveal about us?

🔍Focus Standards

9-10.RL.5 Analyze how author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

9-10.RL 6  Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

9-10.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

📖Novel Study Suggestions

🔗 ELA Supplemental Book List

• A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix | C.B. Lee | NP

• The Girl from Everywhere | Heidi Heilig | 750L

• Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 460L

• The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1010L

• Pippa Park Raises Her Game | Erin Yun | NP

• Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1070L

📰 Newsela Curriculum Complements

🔉 Listenwise (Podcast) Supplementary Resources

CommonLit Supplementary Materials
The Science of Branding: Why We Buy
Essential Question: How do brands use different tactics to influence our purchasing behavior? How can we make branding tactics and messaging more visible to potential consumers?