Draft 0.1 Revised Syllabus English 10B 10th Grade
March 25th-March
30th NMA Project
March 24th-
New Feature Article Revision begins
March 26th
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2 News
Article due to Google docs (NOTE Google docs and turnitin.com are now
compatible! You can upload from the cloud to Google docs! ).
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Assignment #1: Write an Editorial due on Thursday <450 Words
March 31-April 4-
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Propaganda
Posters Reviewed and Graded
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Assignment
#2 Grapes of Wrath Expository/Informational Performance Assessment Exam
Begins
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Read,
Highlight, and Annotate Background Information
o Migrant Farm Workers
o The WPA
o The Dust Bowl
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Watch
Videos and Examine Photographs
o Brother Can You Spare A Dime? Photographs from The Great Depression http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/dime/resources.html
April 7- 10 Complete
Expository/Informational Performance Assessment
Exam
April 11th
All Second Drafts of Editorial (required)
and student Choice
Articles due remember a minimum of 2/person
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Hollywood
Idol
April 14-18- Spring
Break Review and Plan for Completing
Upcoming
Assignments
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Read Julius
Caesar
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Assignment
#3 Review Elements of Drama- Cornell Notes
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Assignment
#4 Keep Reading Logs in your Reader’s Writers Notebook. See Schedule for Due dates of Logs.
No late Logs accepted!
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Assignment
#5 Complete Graphic Organizers and
Short Constructed responses on Brutus and Antony’s Speeches.
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Assignment
#6 Memorize and Recite
and/or create/post podcast/vlog of one of the assigned monologues or
dialogues. Due May 12th
April 28th-May
2- Week 1 Julius Caesar
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April 28th-NMA
Articles due for Publication
Read Julius Caesar Act I Essential
Questions:
Forces at work in Julius Caesar’s time are still
evident in the news. Wars, terrorism, mob violence, and assassinations are
still problems today. People today are still swayed and even controlled by
powerful and persuasive individuals and groups. How do we decide to join one
group and to oppose another? What do we do when appeals to our ambition
conflict with our sense of honor?
1.
What are the qualities of a good leader?
2.
What are the consequences of betrayal?
3.
How easily are people persuaded?
4.
What are the personal and social effects of
ambition?
Review
Questions from 9th grade: What is the relationship between decisions
and consequences? How do decisions, actions, and
consequences vary depending on the different perspectives of the people
involved? How
can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life?
Prerequisite Skills: setting, characters, stages of plot
(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution), conflict
(internal and external), irony (situational, verbal, dramatic), cause and
effect, tone, theme, mood, sonnet
Unit Vocabulary: Persuasive Devices
(i.e. bandwagon, loaded words, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks, snob
appeal, misuse of statistics), logical fallacies (appeal to fear, personal
attack {ad hominem}, false dilemma, false analogy}, Figures of Speech, play,
tragedy, tragic hero, tragic flaw, comedy, dialogue, monologue, soliloquy,
aside, stage directions, props, inferences, iambic pentameter, couplet, meter,
slant rhyme, rhyme, rhythm
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Crucial passages in the play to examine:
Act 1 sc.1 ll.32-55 Wherefore
rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
Act 1 sc.2 ll. 135-161 Why
man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Act 2 sc.1 ll. 10-34 It
must be by his death; and for my part,
Act 2 sc.1 ll. 162-183 Our
course will seem to bloody, Caius Cassius
Act 2 sc. 2 ll. 13-26 Caesar,
I never stood on ceremonies,
Act 3 sc.1 ll. 123-137 Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me
kneel;
Act 3 sc. 1 ll.
183-210 I
doubt not of your wisdom.
Act 3 sc.2 ll. 12-32 Be patient till the last.
Act 3 sc.2
ll. 71-105 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me
your ears! ***
Act 3 sc. 2 ll. 116-135 But
yesterday the word of Caesar might
Act 3 sc.2 ll. 166-194 If you have tears, prepare
to shed them now.
Act 3 sc. 2 ll. 206-226 Good
friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
Act 4 sc.3 ll. 264-281 It
was well done, and thou shalt sleep again;
Act 5 sc.5 ll. 68-81 This
was the noblest Roman of them all;
Julius Caesar Reading Log
Schedule
ACT 1 and II ACT III ACT
IV and V
4-28 1.1-5
P1 and P3
5-5 3.1-2
5-12 4.1-2
4-29 1.3-5
P 7
5-6 3.2 5-13 4.3-4
4-30 2.0-2.4
P1 and P3
5-7 3.3 5-14 5.1-2
5-1 2.3-4
P7
5-8
3.4 5-15 5.3
5-2 2.5 5-9 3.5-6 5-16 5.4
Due
5-2
Due 5-8 Due
5-16
May 5-8- Week 2 Julius Caesar
May
8th Final NMA Product Due
May 12-16 Week3 Julius Caesar
May
12th Assignment#5
due Caesar Speech/Podcast/Vlog
May 19-23 Read 1984 Expectations: Read in class 50 Minutes. Read for
Homework 30 -50 minutes, depending on your reading level.
May 26- Memorial
Day
May 27-30 Read 1984
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Assignment#7
Essay on Censorship Due to turnitin.com on May 27th
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Final Exam Covers: Fahrenheit 451, Julius Caesar, 1984 and Revised
Essay on Censorship Due
June 2-5 Finals
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