English 10
Welcome to our English class. This is a full year class which will focus on reading and responding to literature, creative and critical thinking, writing, and vocabulary. I look forward to an enjoyable and rewarding class with you!
In this class students will be building on concepts and skills that they have learned in the previous years. In Freshman English, students were introduced to different literary terms and had some practice identifying different literary elements in texts. Now, in 10th grade Advanced College Prep, students will see how these different elements work to create exemplary literature.
Students will study a wide range of texts including novels, poems, short stories, and nonfiction forms such as memoir, biography, letters, and newspaper and magazine articles. In addition, students will go beyond the literature and their reading to see how other art forms including music, films, and paintings have expressed a point of view about a given issue or theme.
The course is also committed to the development and refinement of language arts skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Focusing on writing reader responses and literary analyses, students can develop life long skills in presenting an argument, weighing and presenting evidence, clarifying thought and making meaningful connections.
The final result in June should be students who have the ability read closely with purpose, support ideas with evidence, and to weigh, evaluate, and understand different points of view. They should be able to communicate those different points of view as well as their own and to see the merits and problems of each.