COURSE
TITLE: English
10
TEACHER: Nadine Moore
E-MAIL: nadine_moore@eu.odedodea.edu
ROOM: B
1.2; ground floor, blue pod
COURSE
DESCRIPTION: The Language
Arts 10 course is designed to strengthen students' skills in listening,
speaking, writing, literature and language.
The content includes, but is not limited to, outlining or mapping main
ideas and details of information received aurally or through research; using
vocabulary and sentence structure appropriate to the listener and the
situation; understanding importance of speech in influencing the course of
events in a democratic society; using
interviewing skills; using formal debating skills; refining test-taking skills
to meet secondary and post-secondary demands; writing a paraphrase, summary ,
or precis; writing compositions for newspaper publication; writing a short
paper using research techniques; selecting appropriate sources of information
for the topic; understanding and explaining the type of conflict in a given
literary selection; experiencing a wide variety of literary genre; using media
center research facilities; and reading self-selected books to help students
learn to view reading as a useful and pleasurable activity.
Instructional activities will be provided in a general
classroom setting, in the media center, and in the school and community
environment. Student activities will
include, but not be limited to, writing journals or learning logs; writing
expository, descriptive, and persuasive essays; writing autobiographical
narratives; writing newspaper articles; writing a brief research report;
writing and mailing business letters; learning to respond to each others'
writing with helpful suggestions for revision; taking several pieces of writing
through a process that includes prewriting, drafting, revision/editing, and
publishing; practicing writing from different points of view for different
purposes and audiences; developing speaking and listening skills by responding to
literature and to each others' writing, and by participating in small and large
group discussions and in oral presentations, interviews, parliamentary
meetings, formal debates, and dramatizations; studying appropriate major works
of literature intensively in class; reading, viewing, and listening
independently to examples of the various genres of literature and responding to
that literature; presenting oral interpretations of literature, reading several
self-selected books and responding to them in journal entries, letters, group
discussions, or oral/written book reports; and increasing vocabulary through
the study of words encountered in reading and through work with the dictionary
and the thesaurus.
English 10 is studied in thematic units that explore several
universal concepts. Law and justice,
everyday heroes, the future, and love are concepts that have endured from the
earliest days of mankind. As we utilize
these themes to hone a student's skills in the curriculum strands, we will also
delve into the multicultural perspectives that spawned these works.
Strand:
E1 Reading Reading is a process which
includes demonstrating comprehension and showing evidence of a warranted and
responsible interpretation of the text. “Comprehension” means getting the gist
of a text. It is most frequently illustrated by demonstrating an understanding
of the text as a whole; identifying complexities presented in the structure of
the text and extracting salient information from the text. In providing evidence
of a responsible interpretation, students may make connections between parts of
a text, among several texts, and between texts and other experiences; make
extensions and applications of a text; and examine texts critically and
evaluatively.
Standard: E1a: The student reads at least twenty-five books or book equivalents each year. The quality and complexity of materials to be read is based on the lexile level for grade ten (1025L-1250L). The materials should include traditional and contemporary literature (both fiction and non-fiction) as well as magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and on-line materials. Such reading should represent a diverse collection of material from at least three different literary forms andt least fi