10 Seminar Course description
English 10 Seminar will utilize multiple texts(listed below), The Norton
Anthology of Contemporary Fiction , and Philosophy & Literature. We will
focus on many genres of literature: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, and
visual arts. The focus will be on the inner development of the individual
in relationship to others and to his/her world. We will take a “Multi-
approach” to this course – multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and multi-
media. We will accomplish this goal through a focus on reading & writing
(“Writing completes what reading begins”), speaking & listening, and
utilizing different schools of literary criticism.
10 Standards
The emphasis in this course is on literacy instead of literature. The course
of study will focus on students’ present levels of reading comprehension and
offer skill and strategy oriented instruction to work toward proficiency.
Strategy instruction will help students who just read words learn to dig for
layers of meaning, using quality literature of various genres by a wide
range of authors. Topics focus on themes of identity, prejudice, and
separateness. Students will read a whole-class novel followed by self-
selected novels to read and discuss in structured Literature Circles.
Writing will focus on further development of the writing process. Students
will focus on developing paragraphs in the five-paragraph essay. Pre-and
post-testing of reading and writing skills will occur.
****If you have a question about an assignment, please email me at
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