Syllabus ENR. English 10

1. Writing Unit (8-9 weeks)

• Students write descriptive, narrative, classification, and evaluative paragraphs.

• Students employ the following orders of arrangement in their writing: logical, chronological, spatial, and order of importance.

• Students identify main ideas, topic sentences, tones, orders of arrangement, audience, and purpose in sample writing.

• Students edit and proof-read.

• Students write at least two persuasive essays.

• Students use all steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising editing, and publishing.

• Students employ all six components of the AIMS Writing Rubric.

2. Night Unit (2-3 weeks)

• Students read the Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel.

• Students write summaries of each chapter.

• Students identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structures and elements of literature.

• Students acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.

• Students generate clarifying questions in order to comprehend text.

• Students connect information and events in text to experience and to related text and sources.

3. I-Search Paper (2-3 weeks)

• Students write an I-Search about some aspect of the Holocaust which they would like to research.

• Students incorporate all elements of expository writing into their I-Search paper. (3W-C2-10-P01X)

• Students employ all six components of the AIMS Writing Rubric.

4. Non-fiction Unit (3-4 weeks)

• Students read the following selections from the Holt-Rinehart English 10 textbook:

-- “from Into Thin Air”

-- “R.M.S. Titanic”

-- “No News from Auschwitz”

-- “Hair” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• Students acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.

• Students read fluently.

• Students employ strategies to comprehend text.

• Students identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purpose, structures, and elements of expository text.

5. Accelerated Reader

Students will read AR books.

Students will earn points each quarter based upon their reading level and upon reading for 30 minutes daily.

6. Fr6.  Frankenstein (1 week)

• Students write a book report.

• Students identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structures and elements of literature.

• Students acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.

• Students write a literary analysis.

7.  Life of Pi (ongoing during 2^nd quarter)

8.  Vocabulary (ongoing throughout the semester)

9. Fall Semester Final

Students will take a comprehensive final worth 15% of their total semester grade.