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Fall Semester
 
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Writing Unit (8-9 weeks)</LI></OL>
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Students write narrative and evaluative paragraphs.
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Students employ the following orders of arrangement in their writing: logical, chronological, spatial, and order of importance.
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Students identify main ideas, topic sentences, tones, orders of arrangement, audience, and purpose in sample writing.
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Students edit and proof-read.
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Students write at least two persuasive essays.
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Students use all steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising editing, and publishing.
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Students employ all six components of the AIMS Writing Rubric.</LI></UL>
 
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Poetry Unit (4 weeks)</LI></OL>
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Students read and analyze model poems.
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Students write poems.
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Students acquire and use new literary terms as they pertain to poetry.
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Students analyze the author's use of literary elements.
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Students analyze the author's use of figurative langauge.</LI></UL>
 
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Short Story Unit (4 weeks)</LI></OL>
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Students read short stories in English 10 textbook:
“Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” by Tim O'Brien
“Geraldo No Last Name” by Sandra Cisneros
“Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing
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Students analyze the author's use of literary elements: theme, point of view, characterization, setting, and plot.
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Students analyze the author's use of figurative langauge: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, allusion, and imagery.
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Students compare and contrast the illustrations of the same theme in two different literary genres.</LI></UL>
 
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AIMS Prep Lessons (on-going throughout semester)</LI></OL>
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Students complete reading and writing lessons and quizzes in Study Island.</LI></UL>
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Students complete lessons and quizzes in Coach and Buckle Down AIMS Prep Workbooks.</LI></UL>
 
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Accelerated Reader</LI></OL>
Students will read AR books.
Students will earn points each quarter based upon their reading level and upon reading for 30 minutes daily.
 
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Fall Semester Final</LI></OL>
Students will take a comprehensive final worth 15% of their total semester grade. 
 
 
 
 
Spring Semester
 
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Non-Fiction Reading (3-4 weeks)</LI></OL>
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Students read the following selections from the Holt-Rinehart English 10 textbook:</LI></UL>
-- “from Into Thin Air”
-- “R.M.S. Titanic”
-- “No News from Auschwitz”
-- “Hair” from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Students acquire and use new vocabulary in relevant contexts.
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Students read fluently.
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Students employ strategies to comprehend text.
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Students identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purpose, structures, and elements of expository text.</LI></UL>
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2. AIMS Review (2-3 weeks)
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Students will take practice Writing and Reading AIMS Tests, especially focusing on writing and comprehending literary text from the first semester</LI></UL>
 
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Greek Mythology (last 3 months of school)</LI></OL>
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Students will learn the major figures in Greek mythology.
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Students will read portions of the following myths:
“Jason and the Golden Fleece”
“The Odyssey”
“The Iliad”
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Students will read Edith Hamilton's Mythology.
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Students will trace the hero's journey in several myths.
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Students will find allusions to Greek mythology in contemporary culture.</LI></UL>
 
 
4. Spring Semester Final
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Students will take a comprehensive final worth 15% of their total semester grade. </LI></UL>

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