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Syllabus

Grade 10
Course Description

This course is designed to acquaint students with authors and cultures of world significance and realize their diversity and importance. In conjunction with the literature, a continuation of writing formats will be studied and perfected.

Outcomes:

• Be able to analyze, interpret, draw conclusions and question literary devices including flashback, foreshadowing, symbolism, simile, personification, and alliteration.
• Be able to use technology to gather and organize materials for a research paper.
• Be able to read various forms of literature to develop a better understanding of self and others.
• Be able to write a quality essay with an introduction, thesis and body with two to four major points supported by examples, transitions and a conclusion.
• Possess personal writing styles (prewriting, organizing, writing, revising, publishing).
• Be able to listen to challenge and form personal opinions about fiction and nonfiction material.
• Be able to demonstrate understanding of a novel in order to have a better knowledge of self and others.

Required Texts:

• World Masterpieces, Prentice Hall, 1999 Edition
• Survival, T.H. Peek Publisher, 1995
• The Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes 
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

English Department Requirements:

• All major papers must be typed.
• All written work must be completed in ink.
• All written work must be completed on loose leaf paper on one side.
• All work must be handed in on time.
• No late work will be accepted.
• No extra credit will be given.
• Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in an automatic zero.
• Required materials are expected in class on a daily basis.
• A notebook is required (continuation of last year).
• It is your responsibility to see the teacher (at the beginning of the class period) the day you return about missed assignments due to excused absence(s). Quizzes and tests must be made up immediately on your own time. Dates for these will be assigned when you return. Assignments given on the day of the absence will be assigned a later due date. Work given or due as a result of an unexcused absence or tardy will result in a zero. Prearranged absence - it is your responsibility to check before the actual absence so that work is completed upon return.
• Participation is required.
• Appropriate classroom behavior is expected.
• Writing Portfolio
• Computer disc required

Grading:

Various methods of evaluation will be used. The purpose of this is to give you the exposure and experience to a variety of procedures. All work given will be assigned point values as determined by their importance. The total points will determine the final grade. The quarterly work and semester exam will all constitute a certain percentage of the grade as determined by the student handbook.

Composition Techniques Required:
(Each grade builds upon the prior composition formats that are required.)

• Chapter 4 - Library Research
• Chapter 6 - Critical Analysis
• Appendix - Documentation

Literature Required:

1^st Semester

• Sumerian, Egyptian, and Hebrew Literature
• Persian and Arabic Literature
• Indian Literature
• Chinese Literature
• Japanese Literature
• Ancient Greece
• Roman Literature
• The Middle Ages

2^nd Semester

• The Renaissance
• The Age of Rationalism
• Romanticism and Realism
• The Modern World
• The Contemporary World