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English 10 Adv.

Course Description

Advanced English 10 expands students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in alignment with Common Core State Standards. In addition, this course will provide extensive development of the writing process aligned with the Modern Language Association (MLA) format, critical literary response and analysis skills, and cross-curricular study. Students will learn and use strategies that promote rigor in order to support the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards.
 
Once you have read the syllabus (in files on the right), CLICK HERE Due by Friday, August 25th.

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Night Reading and Assessment Schedule

Date and chapters/vocab assessed: 
(Do not use what's at the end of the background ppt)
4/9/18 Chapter 1 
4/16/18 Chapters 2-3 *moved to 4/18 for all periods due to testing schedule
*Period 3 still testing on 4/17 but periods 2 and 4 testing on 4/19 due to testing schedule.
4/23/18 Chapter 4
4/30/18 Chapter 5
5/7/18 Chapters 6-7
5/14/18 Chapters 8-9
5/21/18 Rhetorical Analysis Final Essay Due 

Night Background Articles

 

Camps Article 

  1. Who were kept prisoners in the concentration camps during WW2? 
  1. How were prisoners transported to the camps? 
  1. What were conditions during transportation and what happened to many prisoners during that time? 
  1. What were the methods of killing used in the camps? 
  1. Who made up the Special Detachment and what were their jobs? 

Author Article 

  1. How many books was Wiesel the author of? Which was his most famous? 
  1. What did The Norwegian Nobel Committee call him?  
  1. What powerful message did Wiesel give? 
  1. Why was he awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986? 
  1. What is the name of the concentration camp Elie Wiesel was in? 

Poetry Unit

For 3/22-3/23. Download and upload to your OneNote notebook, or copy/paste to your OneNote notebook in the Poetry tab. Explicate all 5 poems. You should also have a theme identified for each. Due 3/26

Oedipus Timeline Project

 

  1. This project must be done in either iMovie, Adobe SparkVideo, or any other video production resource.
  2. Either at the beginning or during the Cast of Characters at the end, you must introduce the characters from the film: Oedipus, Creon, Chorus, Tiresias, Jocasta, Messenger, Shepherd, children of Oedipus, etc. 
  3. At the beginning of the movie, include a brief synopsis of the back story (your background notes).
  4. Then, the bulk of your video includes events from the play, NOT including back story. It is a visual recreation of the PLAY. Remember: Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus gouging his eyes out all happened off stage, so those scenes should not be visually included but described.
  5. Use still images, videos, props, and voice overs, but do not use pictures of the actual characters from google images. Be original! 
  6. This is the shortened version of the play. Think of this as a Cliff Notes or Spark Notes adaptation of the play in a short film: Approximately 5 minutes in length. 
  7. In the dialogue, you must include at least three literary devices, irony preferred (any kind, just be sure it's easy to identify). You can incorporate this in to the events. 
Our last in-class day to work on these projects is this is Friday, March 16th. We will watch the videos together as a class on Tuesday, March 20th. So the link needs to be pasted in your OneNote notebook by class time that day. You may work with a partner, as approved. Or you may work alone. 

Your OneNote notebook should have the following pages in the Oedipus tab: 
-background notes
-annotations
-reading comprehension questions
-link to video project  

Evidence Journal Iliad- due February 6th

Also don't forget: 20 comprehension questions due February 1st in your OneNote notebook.
 
Evidence journal of 3 literary devices including accurate and valid context and thorough analysis. Turn it on turnitin.com.
 
Lead-in with context 10
Evidence 10
Analysis 10
MLA 10
Grammar 10
 
Upload to turnitin.com
Class ID# 13703146 Advanced English 10-2 enrollment key: writing
Class ID# 13703166 Advanced English 10-3 enrollment key: writing
Class ID# 13703175 Advanced English 10-4 enrollment key: writing 
 
Be sure you are: writing in present tense, not using 1st or 2nd person, not using dead words, including relevant background before the MLA cited evidence, using MLA format, and ANALYZING the devices. Do NOT define devices or identify ("this is a simile because"). Take out superfluous phrases such as "this shows that" or "in this quote." 

Things Fall Apart Background

Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHF_w0gkyiI  

Answer the following questions in your OneNote notebook:  

1. Who originally wrote stories of Africa?  

2. Why would this be considered a bias point of view? (Inference- not in the video) 

3. When did African writers begin to tell their own stories?

4. How did this become possible? 

5. Where is the novelThings Fall Apart set?  

6. When was it written? 

7. What did Chinua Achebe set out to do fifty years ago? 

8. How can fiction be true, according to Achebe?  

9. Why is religion an important focus in the novel? 

10. Why can Korean women relate to this novel?

Things Fall Apart Reading and Assessment Schedule

 Reading and Vocabulary quizzes schedule:

Quiz Date  

Pages 

Chapters 

1/22/18 

3-25 

1-3 

1/29/18 

26-45 

4-5  vocab quiz ch. 1-5 on 1/30/18

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/248254

2/5/18

46-62 

6-7 

2/12/18 

63-86 

8-9 vocab quiz ch. 6-9 on 2/13/18

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/248265

2/20/18 

87-109 

10-11 

2/26/18

110-125 

12-13 vocab quiz ch. 10-13 on 2/27/18

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/248274

3/5/18 

129-147 

14-16 

3/12/18 

148-167 

17-19 vocab quiz ch. 14-19 on 3/13/18

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/248282

3/19/18 

171-191 

20-22 

3/26/18 

192-209 

23-25 vocab quiz ch. 20-25 on 3/27/18

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/248291
 
As you read, you will be responsible for annotating your text. Salient quotes to focus on include characterization, proverbs, internal and external conflict, figurative language, and anything relating to culture or family traditions.   

A full version of the text is online at: http://l-adam-mekler.com/things-fall-apart.pdf You may borrow the text from the library, download it on iBooks, or purchase it at any bookstore.  

F451 Socratic Seminar

This document must be filled out on Microsoft Word, and uploaded to turnitin.com by midnight on Sunday, December 10th. The Socratic Seminar will be held on Monday, December 11th. Bring a printed version of the document to the seminar so you can use it for reference during the discussion and you can add notes throughout the seminar.
 
Rubric:
Questions 1-7 (5 pts each): 35
Questions 1-9: (2 pts each) 18
Question 10: (3 pts each) 15
Annotations from seminar: 10
Participation in seminar: 2
Total: 80 points