Syllabus English 10 2013-14
English 9 Dr.
Cohen Room
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Hollywood High School SLC: MET
Asterisked (*) text is credited to the following sources:
Elements of Literature, Course (Holt-Rinehart-Winston,
Publishers)
Holt Literature and Language
Arts
Holt Perspectives in
Multicultural Literature (Blue Workbook)
Vocabulary Workshop Levels “E”
or Quizlet.com
Common Core Novels
Things Fall Apart Chinua
Achebe
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Metamorphosis Ovid
Key
to Abbreviations:
EL Elements
of Literature (Home)
A Holt
Lit and Language ARTS Anthology
ML Multicultural
Literacy Workbook
Common Core College and
Career Ready Standards:
·
Building Knowledge through
content-rich non-fiction and informational texts (Read)
·
Reading and writing grounded
in evidence from the text (Back it up!)
·
Regular practice with
complex text and its academic vocabulary (Highlight, Annotate, Think
Critically)
Scope and Sequence: Semester Overview
(Subject to Change)
Aug. 13-16 Authors Covered: Gloria Allred and Lisa Bloom; Ann
Sjoerdsma
If decency Doesn’t, Law should make us Good Samaritans, Good Samaritans
are Afraid to Act Academic
Vocabulary Pp. 3
PROJ: Register for Engrade.com
PROJ: Cornell Notes on All Readings, review
Highlight and Annotate Skills
Aug. 19-23 Authors
Covered: Hoyle
A State Championship Versus A Runners
Conscience
PROJ:
Highlight and Annotate assigned texts
PROJ: 800-word typed essay Evaluation of
Credibility of an Author
Writing
A Persuasive Essay
Informational text: researching
Information
Aug. 27-30 Authors
Covered: Alice Walker, Roger
Rosenblatt
Everyday Use by Alice Walker
PROJ:
800-word typed essay Evaluating an
Authors argument
Exam
on Academic Vocabulary
Library Orientation
Sept.
2-6 Author Covered: Johnson, Bagby, Martin Luther King Jr.
The War Escalates, Dear Folks, Declaration
of Independence from the War in Vietnam PROJ: Primary and Secondary Sources,
Analyzing and Evaluating Speeches
Proj: Analyze how Johnson and King unfold their
examination of ideas and facts, paying particular attention to the order in
which the points are made, how King, for example, introduces and develops his
points, and the connections that are drawn between them.
9/3 P2 Opp. Day Writing Project
Grade window
opens Sept. 5th
Sept.9-13 Author
Covered: Sojourner Truth
Ain’t
I a Woman, Declaration of the Rights of Women,
PROJ:
Evaluating an author’s argument
Essay
Sept.16- 20 Author
Covered: Martin Luther King, William
J. Clinton, and Barack Obama
I have been to the Mountaintop, Remarks to
the Convocation of the Church of Christ in God,
PROJ: Allusion Chart
Proj: 1500-Word Essay Evaluate the
credibility of a political speech
Back to School
Night 9/19 Parent/Guardian Visits
Sept.23-27 Author Covered: Cesar Chavez
What the Future Holds for Farm Workers and
Hispanics
PROJ: Symbolism Chart
PROJ. Evaluate argument
Proj;
Writing and Delivering a Speech
Sept.30 -4__ Author
Covered Learned Hand, Langston Hughes
I am an American Day Address, Let America be
America Again
Proj: Analyze Speech and Poem
PROJ:
Compare and Contrast Essay
P4 Opp. Day 10/1 Writing Project
Oct. 7-11 Authors
Covered: Political cartoonists
PROJ:
Political Cartoon Posters
Oct. 14- 17 Authors
Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury TBA
PROJ:
Reading Circles for Novels
Lenses of poverty, degrees of wealth, and gender
PHAbao
Oct. 17 Parent/Guardian Conferences
SPA Exam English Persuasion
Oct.21- -25 Authors
Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury
PROJ:
1500 Word Essay on Multiple Points of View
Oct. 28 –Nov.1 Authors Covered: Steinbeck or Bradbury, Rodriguez, Barnes
TBA
Coming of Age, Latino Style, Vision
Quest, Crossing a Threshold to Adulthood
PROJ:
Academy Vocabulary for Exposition p.
65
PROJ: Synthesizing Sources Table
Nov. 4– Nov. 8 Authors
Covered: Alice Walker, Roland Freeman, Cooper and Allen, Lee
Interview with
Alice Walker, Interview with Nikki Giovanni, "Thinkin on Marryin", A
Baby’s Quilt to sew up the Generations
Proj: Quilt Design: Video or Craft
11/5
Opp. Day P2 Writing Project
Nov. 12-Nov. 15 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe
The Oral Tradition and Things Fall Apart
PROJ: Irony
Nov.18-232 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe and Oral
Tradition II
Things Fall Apart and La LLorona
PROJ: Allegory and Ghostly
Tale Project
11/19
Opp. Day P4 Writing Project
Nov. 25-29 Authors
Covered: Chinua Achebe, Sandra
Cisneros, and Frederick Douglass
Problems
and Solutions, Straw Into Gold, Learning to Read and Write
PROJ: 1500 Word Essay
Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 2-6 Authors
Covered: Malcolm X, Sherman Alexie
PROJ:
1500 Word Essay
December 9-13 Authors Covered: Langston Hughes
Theme for English B
PROJ:
Final Exam
Useful Web Sites:
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Modern Language Association citation formatting
Oxford English
Dictionary
Vocabulary for the collegebound student
Teacher Web Log
http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments
Turn It In
Online originality reports for composition
College Board Online
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap
Preparation for post-secondary education endeavors
Homework, Late Work Policy, and Grading
Organization and preparedness are skills
you will need regardless of your post-secondary plans.
Homework will be writing compositions, studying for
tests, or reading. DO ALL OF IT.
·
Late work will not be accepted! An extension can
be granted by the teacher 24 hrs prior
to a deadline provided the student shows evidence of progress.
· Papers must
be clearly labeled with First and Last Name, Period, Assignment name, and date
or paper will drop a grade and feedback will be delayed.
· Some work
can NOT be made up, especially the oral assignments.
· See me before 7:30 or during Lunch about make-up work, not right
as the class is about to begin.
· Students who are absent from
class and provide an acceptable excuse may make up tests by
appointment with the teacher.
· If students
miss a class for sports or field trip activities, they are required to submit
the assigned work the day it is due, either before school or during the school
day; excuses such as “I was not in class” are not acceptable.
· End-of-semester deadline is the first day of stop week; no
work will be accepted after that date.
It is in the students’ best interest to meet deadlines and submit work
of the highest quality by due dates.
· Grading
o
Homework 15%
o
Classwork and Project Based Learning 30%
o
Exams and Quizzes 20%
o
Essays 25%
o
Community Service 10%
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