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Gr 10 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 10 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This advanced college preparatory program is designed for students with above-average achievement and interest. Students will read literature of all genres and write essays demonstrating analysis and synthesis. They will also complete the Sophomore Synthesis, an independent reading and writing project requiring students to bring together multiple works. Representative examples of literature include short stories by Hawthorne and Hemingway, novels such as Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Hate U Give, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby, and plays such as The Crucible and Fences. Students must complete outside reading and homework every day. Reading assignments vary with the difficulty of the work; a typical reading assignment is 30-35 pages per night.
Essential Skills:
Reading
Students will be able to read literal details in texts and form inferences and abstract understandings.
Students will be able to carry out a close reading of an author’s language and devices used in a text.
Writing
Students will be able to write an 8-10 page essay.
Students will be able to incorporate evidence.
Students will be able to synthesize multiple texts.
Students will be able to write a vignette.
Students will be able to revise comma splices, run-ons (fused sentences), and fragments. Students will be able to use commas properly. Students will be able to identify subjects/verbs, clauses, phrases, conjunctions, independent/dependent markers.) Additionally, students will be able to use the em-dash and other stylistic devices.
Speaking & Listening
Students will participate actively in Socratic or small-group graded discussions.
Students will deliver a speech as their final experience.
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